The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI) began creating a Cyber Security Collaboration Hub which is an encrypted workspace for information gathering, collaboration, and training for all 29 member states of the NATO. Th...
TheFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and telecom company Telefonica have concluded an agreement that would see the two parties working together on leveraging the use of digital technologies such as the ...
The Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) has started the referral process to Europe's top court, to determine the validity of Facebook's legal agreements used by firms and large companies, such as Google and Apple, to tra...
Citing its 'reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism', Wikipedia has banned the Daily Mail as a reference for articles in the online encyclopaedia. The Daily Mail has attacked this decision, as reported in the UK Huffi...
A recently published survey looking into 865 hardware or software products incorporation encryption, from 55 country, points out to the fact that, because of the wide availability of such products, any mandatory backdoors required...
An UK parliamentary committee set up in order to review the the draft Investigatory Powers Bill (known as ''Snooper's charter') has published its report on this governmental proposed legislation. The report contains a separate sec...
After months of debate, the US senate finally decided to pass legislation that puts a permanent ban on states' and local governments' taxing of Internet access. Apart from the permanent extension of the Internet Tax Free...
Google is extending the 'right to be forgotten' rule to its global sites accessed within Europe, as of mid-February, the BBC has learned. The company will implement the rule based on the filtering of European IP addresses, in that...
A Court of Appeal in Parishas confirmed that Facebook can be sued in France. The case involved French teacher Frederic Durand-Baissas whose account was suspended after sharing a photo of a nude painting which hangs in the Musee d'...
The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled that the hacking of computers, mobile devices and networks by the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is lawful, wherever it occurs around the world is lawful. Priv...
A BBC investigation found out that there are a number of secret Facebook groups, used by paedophiles to share sexually tinted images of children. When the undercover journalists attempted to report the content, Facebook repli...
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has released a report on The internet and drug markets, which indicates that the Internet has been an important facilitator in the growth of drug markets. ...