Singapore's telecommunications infrastructure will be upgraded in order to enhance Internet services provided to residential districts. Along with this, more entertainment and news content will be available to users free of charge...
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a request by Google to use a segment of an US-Asia undersea fiber optic cable as a cost saving measure for delivering Internet traffic. US regulators had pre...
According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Germany's Federal Cabinet announced the adoption of the draft Patient Data Protection Act. The law seeks to further Germany's shift to digital health and ...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a Recommendation on the human rights implications of algorithmic systems, containing a set of guidelines for public and private actors to consider when designing, dev...
Ahead of India's general elections, Facebook has tightened itspolicy strategies tackling the spread of misinformation during the electoral campaign. The current strategy includes political ad transparency policies which allow for ...
The UK government has published the 'Online Harms White Paper' laying out a set of new stringent measures increasing safety online and enhancing platforms' responsibility towards illicit content management. Firstly, the paper intr...
The Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development published the 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report which underscores that the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) hinges on overhauling...
The Austria telecommunications regulatory authority (RTR) sent a request to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block 22 domains claimed to be involved in copyright infringement. T-Mobile feared the bans had the potential to viol...
The High-level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) -established by the European Commission in 2018 -presented a set of Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. The guidelines outline key ethical principles that should guide ...
According to Business Ghana, mobile Internet services have been restored to many areas of Ethiopia outside of the capital, Addis Ababa, after almost three months without connectivity. The article, Ethiopia restores internet s...
Following a complaint filed against Uber by taxi unions, a court in Rome, Italyissued a ruling banning Uber, saying that the Uber application has contributed to traditional taxis facing unfair competition. The company was given te...
The European Parliament adopteda resolution on the Adequacy of the Protection afforded by the EU-US Privacy Shield, on April 6. Several privacy-related concerns were identified, in particular that neither the Privacy Shield or the...