The AI Council, an independent expert committee set up to provide advice to the UK government and high-level leadership of the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, has published an AI Roadmap with recommendations to help the go...
According to the Inside Privacy Blog, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union has released a new, draft version of the ePrivacy Regulation. The substantive amendments to the draft regulation propose to "simp...
A GPON optical broadband network will be deployed by Slovenia-based Iskratel in collaboration with Teleserv Group Bolivia in Potosi Bolivia, the world's highest city. Iskratel will implement its SI3000 Lumia GPON optical line term...
Following violence in Washington DC, Twitter has required the removal of 3 tweets by US President Trump for repeated violations of their Civic Integrity Policy. The Twitter account will remain locked for 12 hours after the removal...
Kenya's mobile network operator Safaricom, which also operates global mobile money service M-Pesa, has issued a call for proposals for the monetisation of customer location data in January 2020. According to the call, Safaricom bo...
The government of the Netherlands has established the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Foundation to support and strengthen the efforts of the GFCE community. The foundation's board which consists of Christopher Painter who ...
After three year of government-imposed ban, Wikipedia has been made available again for users in Turkey. The government had blocked access to the website as a matter of national security since Wikipedia's refused to remove content...
The Internet Society, PIR registry, and Ethos Capital have responded to the letter addressed to them by several members of the US Congress in December 2019. The response notes that the .org 'transaction is designed and intended to...
The EDPS released a new preliminary opinion on data protection and scientific research. Noting that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) assigns to scientific research a special regime, but with only few guidelines or com...
At the CES conference in Las Vegas, Facebook launched its new Privacy Checkup tool, which was first created in 2014. Rolling out to users globally, this new tool includes a 'Who Can See What You Share' feature allowing users to re...
Colombia has passed new tax rules that impose a 19% value added tax on Internet services paid by creditcard, primarily targeting over-the-top (OTT) services such as Netflix, Uber, Spotify, and Airbnb. In addition, large ...
The US intelligence services made their report titled "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections" publicly available. The report, commissioned by the US President Obama, provides details of the intelligenc...