UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and its industry partner PA Consulting have identified opportunities for a new approach to using quantum computing to support human decision-making. The solutions are rooted in...
Board of directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for the government in El Salvador to reconsider its decision to declare bitcoin a legal tender. They stress out that this will make it hard for the country to get ...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) issue for public comments draft NISTIR 8349 -a methodology for characterizing network behavior of IoT devices...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued a decision directing the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) to erase datasets uncategorized within six months, as these may contain data on individ...
The government of Malta has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Fund dedicated to supporting capacity building efforts related to AI research in the country. The grant is aimed to encourage (a) increased capacity for...
Delft University of Technology and Royal DSM -a nutrition, health, and sustainable living company -in the Netherlands have announced the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence Lab for Biosciences (AI4B.io Lab). The lab will b...
French regulator CNIL has published results of the survey and online consultation organized in 2020, on the protection of the personal data of minors including their rights online. While the survey focused on the digital pra...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started an investigation to assess whether Google's proposals to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser could cause advertising spending to be even more concentrated on Go...
Facebook has removed accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of trying to manipulate public debate before national elections. Uganda is holding presidential and parliamentary elections. The removed network of ac...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have launched a new webpage providing comprehensive access to the WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers. This database of publications is focused on i...
The UK High Court has held in its ruling Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2021] that the issuance of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain forms of computer hacking is not permitted;...
Aiming at addressing the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Airtel Africa (African branch of Indian Bharti Airtel) unveiled 5-year partnership agreement to buttress the e-le...