The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), introduced in 2016 by the EU, triggered a new type of business aimed at helping companies to observe data protection and privacy regulations worldwide. It's a booming market. OneTrust...
Hong Kong's Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) has introduced a centralised identity platform known as iAM Smart. Residents can download the iAM Smart app free of charge. The app enables authentication of a...
The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Japanese Assistive Technology Development Organisation (ATDO) to develop a comprehensive strategy to imp...
In December 2019, in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT and Innovation, MTN Rwanda launched the Connect Rwanda campaign to mobilise people to contribute to providing smartphones to Rwandans who cannot afford them. The campaign...
The US Patent Act, like many other legislations, limits patents to humans. However, with the rise of the AI, and recognizing the need to adapt, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently issued notices seeking public comm...
Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has requested a password reset to its users following a data leak on Twitter. A list of email addresses and passwords has been discovered online, and spreading with the claim that these credentials...
Mozilla has announced rolling out changes under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to all Firefox users worldwide. According to ZDNet, this change will allow all users to request that Mozilla deletes Firefox telemetry data...
Islamic State supporters hijacked dormant Twitter accounts to spread terrorist propaganda, TechCrunch reported. The hackers tweeted and retweeted materials such as Islamic State fighters wielding weapons or texts praising violence...
In the USA, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order repealed the 2015 net neutrality order and restoring the classification of broadband Internet access service as a lightly-regulated informa...
Provisional measures signed by outgoing Brazil president, Michel Temer, in the end of December, initiate the process for the creation of a Brazilian data protection authority. As reported byZDnet, the creation of the agency had be...
Ben Wallace, British Minister of State for Security at the Home Office, claimed in an interview with a British news outlet that Internet companies are'ruthless profiteers', costing the governments extensive resources as they fail ...
AccordingBloomberg, Google moved