TheEuropean Commission (EC) has set up a new Expert Group on Safer Internet for Children to improve co-ordination and co-operation between member states in protect children rights online.The expert group is expected to discuss var...
According to a publication which sought to analyse a recent report titled 'The Net Neutrality Situation in the EU', the conclusion has been drawn that zero-rating business practices by wireless carriers have led to an increas...
On 2 february, India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu took a shot at the country's news media and pushed for restraint. According to a report by the Press Information Bureau, Naidu advocated for prescribing a minimum educatio...
The Brazilian Government announced that several documents used by citizens in the country will be consolidated in one single national digital identification document (DNI). The DNI is expected to be available for everyone in the c...
In Trinidad and Tobago, High Court Judge Frank Seepersad delivered an18-page judgment in a landmark case, brought by a couple falsely accused by their neighbour of sexually abusing their children in a series of Facebook posts. As ...
Joe Watts, political editor at the Independent, reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May focused on online abuse, as she 'used a speech on the centenary of women gaining the vote to warn of the UK's increasingly bitter...
The Internet Freedom Conference 2017 report presents recommendations and a summary of the key discussion points and conclusions. According to the Council of Europe's newsroom announcement, 'the report reflects the e...
More than five years after Amazon was charged with a tax bill of almost
Following a trend that started after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality rules last December, more states have taken measures to protect net neutrality. InHawaii, the governor signed an ex...
StepFeed's Rayana Khalaf calls the Kharabish Nasawiya (Feminist Doodles), Facebook page 'the best thing on the internet right now'. The author of the Facebook page, a feminist researcher with degrees in Art and Gender an...
The European Central Bank (ECB) plans to introduce a system that would allow consumers to transfer money using their phone numbers or email addresses, rather than a bank account number. In such a system, consumers could, for examp...
Kaspersky Lab has recently published asecurity bulletin looking at spam and phishing in 2015. According to the bulletin, 55,28% of email flows in 2015 was represented by spam (which was 11,48% lower that in 2014). The top five sou...