South Africa's Department of Home Affairs had released a draft policy for identity management to seek public comments on 22 December 2020. The draft policy aims to capture biometrics data of every child born in South Africa ...
ICANN has made a call for the public to join the new Africa Strategy Working Group. The call was open for the public to join the group until 15 January 2020. The current Africa strategy began in 2013. It guides ICANN engagement in...
South Africa's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams issued a statement, condemning the burning and destruction of cell phone network towers. The destruction follows a resurgence in conspiracy...
Polish mobile operator Play Communications announces a 5G network rollout in the city of Gdynia.While Play awaits authorisation from the Office of Electronic Communication (UKE), it already has equipment supplied by Chinese teleco...
According to a publication, Egypt's Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) signed an agreement of US$135 million with Orange Egypt to build and operate its data centre and cloud computing platform in the New Administr...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wrote a letter to Apple seeking assistance to access the contents of phones at a case in Pensacola, Florida, citing a high priority national security investigation. FBI has been unable ...
A new report dubbed the Global Cost of Internet Shutdown 2019 has assessed the total economic impact of all the major Internet and social media shutdown in the year 2019. The report made use of the Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST) dev...
Project Zero changed in a trial 12-month mode its vulnerability disclosure policy to faster and improve patch adoption and development. Starting from 2020 Project Zero will keep information for full 90 days by default, regard...
YouTube has now set limits on the amount of data creators can collect on content for children. YouTube will now consider all viewers on children's content as children below 10 years, and collect and sanitise their data accordingly...
World Bank Group, Chief Economist, Pinelopi Goldberg announced that the 2021 World Development Report (WDR) will tackle 'data for development'. Goldberg stated in a letter that the theme was chosen seeing the importance of good qu...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the second public draft of NISTIR 8259 Recommendations for IoT Device Manufacturers: Foundational Activities and Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline....
The new rules of the European Union for consumer protection in the context of the digital economy entered into forceon 7 January, following the approval of the Directive on Better Enforcement of Consumer Protection Rules (Omnibus ...