Uber will stop operating in Colombia after 31 of January. Uber announced its decision after a judge ruled the ride-hailing company violated Colombian competition laws. The dispute started in 2016, when the taxi associati...
A spokesperson from Instagram and Facebook has stated that the platforms are removing posts which support the Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, in compliance with the US sanctions. The Irainian government has protested...
According to a news report, the Supreme Court of India has made a pronouncement that the Internet restrictions that has lasted for several months in Jammu and Kashmir is a breach of fundamental human rights and unconstitutional. T...
Nokia plans to launch a solution, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) that would allow mobile network operators to dynamically share spectrum using different technologies. One of the benefits of this is the faster rollout of new 5G ser...
With the growing demand of e-commerce delivery, the urban last-mile delivery emissions and traffic congestion are on track to increase by over 30% in the top 100 cities globally. Therefore, the World Bank investigates the interven...
According to TechCrunch, around one billion medical images containing the personal health information of patients are now available on the Internet. These medical images include for instance X-rays, ultrasounds and CT scans, among...
According to TechCrunch, Amazon has announced having sacked several of its employees after they shared customer data with a third-party. However, doubts still remain about the position of the employees, when the information was sh...
According to a news release published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the approval of a new ITU standard (ITU L.163) will pave the way for high-speed broadband services to be brought to rural communities t...
As part of the legal case between Google and the French data protection authority (CNIL) on the enforcement of the right to be forgotten at the global level, the advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently gav...
Iranian government control has shut down social media and disrupted internet access in response to recent protests over the past two weeks. The new controls show an 'unprecedented ability for the nation to shut down diss...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout published a security research report on a malware espionage campaign that steals hundreds of gigabytes of data via mobile devices. The program, which was running s...
TheIGF 2017 Report, prepared by the Geneva Internet Platform, with support from the IGF Secretariat, ICANN, the Internet Society, and DiploFoundation, is available.