The Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce in the US House of Representatives held a hearing on 'Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Automotive Technologies'. During the hearing, tech compa...
On the occasion of the Safer Internet Day, a new mascot called Sango or Sangophone was launched for the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Child Online Protection (COP) initiative. The mascot has been developed by child...
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Canada, has ruled that there is no privacy expectation associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address. As such, law enforcement agencies do not need a warrant to require such informat...
On the occasion of Safer Internet Day, UN human rights experts reminded states of their commitment to human rights treaties and therefore develop comprehensive legal frameworks strategies to protect children online. States w...
Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have created artificial atoms in silicon chips, offering improved stability for quantum computing. The atoms were created in a 'quantum dot' -a very small s...
Members of the National Party of Uruguay has introduced in January 2020 a draft urgency law (Ley de Urgente Consideraci
The Russian Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) has proposed a ban on foreign information technology within critical national infrastructure such as systems and networks critical to the economy's operations. T...
On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2020, Google announced a US$1 million fund for sub-Saharan Africa to support innovative ideas around privacy, trust, and safety for families online.Google also launched the child online safety...
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) will be providing an additional fund of 2.1 Million Euro to INTERPOL for a three year initiative, as a part of the Fight Against Child (Sexual) Exploitation (FACE) project launched in 2015....
In early January 2020, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Verisign (the registry operator for the .com top-level domain) announced a series of proposals to amend the .com Registry Agreement. O...
According to Associated Press, London police has started using live facial recognition technology in London, to find individuals wanted for serious crimes. This launch follows a series of trials carried out in the city in 20...
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation hasset upa laboratory to research advanced policing techniques such as prediction of criminal behaviour and emotion recognition. The lab is known as National Engineering Laboratory (N...