YouTube announced on Twitter that it had suspended outgoing US President Trump's channel over concerns about potential to promote violence after one of the channel's recent videos violated the platform's policy. In addition, YouTu...
Twitter announced it has removed more than 70 000 accounts that promoted the QAnon conspiracy movement. The platform found the accounts related to posts that could potentially lead to offline harm. The removed accounts shared harm...
According to RTE, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has issued an opinion that a privacy complaint against Facebook does not have to be taken to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and can be h...
In a public letter sent to 25 tech companies, the NGO, Consumer Report urged the companies to improve privacy and security practices and settings of their Internet of things (IoT) products, mainly connected cameras. The letter det...
Yemen with 28 million citizens lost access to the internet along with the Red Sea region which experienced slow to nonexistent connectivity due to a cut of an undersea cable. Multiple submarine cables usually serve different regio...
GSMA released two reports that look at Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in two developing countries: Jordan and Uganda. The reports showcase how mobile money-enabled CVA is being leveraged in each country and demonst...
The government in the United Kingdom (UK) is to amendThe Data Protection Bill in order to protect security researchers working to uncover abuses of personal data, removing this way criminalisation of legitimate research. As media ...
Prime Ministers of Japan Shinzo Abe and Estonia Juri Ratas agreed in Tallinn that the two countries will cooperate on cybersecurity. In particular, Estonia will assist Japan to prepare for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, while both co...
The US House of Representatives passedForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), renewing the National Security Agency's warrantless Internet surveillance program for six years, with minimal changes. The final vote, 256 to 164,...
Ant Financial, China's biggest online payment company and an affiliate of the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group,has apologized for default enrolling of its users in a tracking program called Sesame Credit, which monitors personal rel...
Hackers have breached into the servers of Cellebrite, Israeli-based company that offers services of breaking into protected mobile phones which confirmed the breach. Almost 1TB of company's data about customers -but also about com...
The Marshall Islands have faced the Internet blackout since December 28 when the undersea fibre cable malfunctioned. The reduction of bandwidth has decreased by 97 %. The National Telecommunications Authority limited the access to...