The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Centre of Excellence conducted a study on country study on Peru that investigates how integrating civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) with identity managem...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) chose eight companies as technology collaborators in Securing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Cyber...
After long pressure on the platform for more stringent regulation of political advertising, Facebook has announced that it will not investigate the truthfulness of the political advertising as 'people should be able to hear from t...
Unlike other social media companies such as Twitter, who banned political ads in October, Facebook decided not to limit political ads on their platform. The company also refused to fact-check the ads arguing that they consider pol...
Two US house lawmakers have introduced a new bill 'The Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today Act' to strengthen the existing Child Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). The bill calls for allowing pare...
In an attempt to protect children online from exploitation, Microsoft has released a new tool code named 'Project Artemis' that can scan online chats to identify patterns of attempts to exploit children online. By scanning histori...
With an aim to institutionalise cryptocurrency, the South Korean Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (PCFIR), a committee focused on co-ordinating regulatory policy around technology in South Korea, suggeste...
At the request from the European Commission in order to set the regulatory framework with regards to ICO and crypto-assets in general, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a guideline in which classified cryp...
Redbanc, the company that connects the ATM network of Chilean banks,disclosed that it was infiltrated by hackers sometime in December 2018. As reported by trendTIC, the source of the hack was a LinkedIn ad for a developer position...
Denmark based company Bluetown, announced its Airband Initiative with Microsoft which will bring Internet access to approximately 800 000 people in underserved communities in the Eastern region of Ghana. TV white space and w...
Cyprus signed the Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the automatic processing of personal data (CETS No. 223), providing multilateral legal framework that facilitates the flow of data...
The South Korean government held a meeting to discuss required institutional and legal frameworks for emerging sharing economy companies. Shared economy of space, finance, and knowledge were the main sectors debated by government ...