The Chair of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of ICTs in the Context of International Security (OEWG) has published a Zero Draft of the substantive report, which should serve for final negotiations on t...
The short-term rental platform VRBO will not cancel reservations in the Washington DC area during inauguration week. The platform has announced that it is encouraging hosts to cancel booking during this time if they believe that a...
Airbnb announced that it will not allow any bookings in the Washington DC metro area during the entire week of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Airbnb made this decision after calls from local authorities urging Americans...
The BBC and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have kicked off campaigns to support digitally excluded people continue their education throughout the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. The GMCA campaign is calling for businesses...
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers reintroduced a bill that aims at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill titled the Protecting Access to Post COVID-19 Telehealth Act, was first introduced in July 2...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged all branches of the EU to support an initiative proposed by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to agree upon a common digital European COVID-19 vaccination certificate...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has launched a public consultation on the potential harms to competition and consumers caused by the deliberate or unintended misuse of algorithms. A paper accompanying the consultation exp...
According to TechCrunch, India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy. The India's ministry of electronics and information technology stated this change has raised "grave concerns regarding the imp...
The Japanese educational institute Meijo Gakuin Educational Corporation is filing a criminal complaint against the company's former chairwoman and other associates on suspicions that funds for the Osaka University of Tourism have ...
On January 19 th the Ministry of Justice in Qatar announced the promulgation of a law aimed at tackling disinformation issues. This new legislation will criminalize a broad range of journalistic activities. In fact, the text of th...
Privacy advocates have raised alarm over news that law enforcement authorities in several countries are using an app developed by Australian start-up Hoan Ton-That. The app enables users to upload a picture of a person in order to...
TheUN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Inter-sessional Panel 2018-2019 convened on 15-17 January 2019, in Vienna, Austria. During the panel, an issues paper was introduced on the impact of rapid technolo...