Popular messaging service WhatsApp has stated that Indian government's proposal to force tech companies to hand over encrypted messages is "over-broad" and "not possible". The Indian government has been asking WhatsApp to share or...
The German Federal Cartel Officeordered Facebook to stop combining data from other Facebook-owned platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram, without voluntary consent. The German regulator has given one month to Facebook to appeal ...
India is on the verge of launching a new national programme on artificial intelligence (AI), according to the Interim Minister of Corporate Affairs, Piyush Goyal. The programme will focus on nine priority areas (not yet announced)...
Sierra Leone's Commissioner for the National Commission for Children (NCC), Olayinka Laggah, has urged the country's Ministry of Information and Communications to considerincluding measures to protect children rights online in the...
In aletter sent to White House cybersecurity officials, over 20 US industry groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce, the Telecommunication Industry Association, and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, asked for the Nati...
The Moscow Times reports that online freedom in Russia declined in 2017. International human rights group Agora's recent report (news story in Russian) recorded over 115 000 cases of Internet censorship. It notes that 11...
On 7 February 2018, PAIX, a pan-African provider of cloud and data centre services, announced thefinalisation of an investment project that lead to the creation of West Africa Data Centers(LTD), WADC, in Ghana. WADC is one o...
General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Mr Agust
Voting 557 to 89, the European Parliament adopted a new regulation thatbans most types of geoblocking. Geoblocking restricts Internet content to particular geographic locations, which, for example, allows companies to charge diffe...
The European Commission, through its Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, has sent aletter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), expressing concerns over the organi...
The European Commission will present its plan for tax reforms for Internet giantsby the end of March, according to EU Economic Affairs Commissioner, Pierre Moscovici. Moscovici told a French radio station that the tax proposals wo...
TheUK government has issued a 'Good Work plan' containing proposals on how the country could 'address the challenges of the changing world of work in the modern economy'. The plan deals, among other things, with the so-called gig ...