When Chancey Fleet, a blind technology educator, opened an at-home Covid-19 testing kit earlier this winter, she realized it would require vision to use the product correctly. "We need to look at the Covid testing process, break i...
Standards for IOT are rising in relevance. They also cover two other areas of digital policy: health and labour rights. IEEE has many relevant standards in this field. Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has announced that it will open the registration for digital ID to the general public starting 18 January. The PSA had last year announced that during this process, services would include ...
A new study published by Rouge Media revealed that the UK government may have missed the targets of their 2014 Digital Inclusion Strategy, which sought to reduce the number of people offline by 25% every 2 years. According to the ...
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the developer of a popular menstruation and fertility tracking app had settled the authority's allegations that the company shared users' health information with thir...
To protect children online, TikTok has announced strict new rules for users under 16. The company announced that no stranger would now be able to comment or download any post or video of minors (below 16 year), or use their videos...
The US Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to reinstate in person requirements for abortion medication, mifepristone, during the pandemic. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, lower courts have blocked the US Fo...
The UK National Health Service (NHS) Directors of Public Health will test the COVID-19 immunity passport that was developed by Mvine and iProov. The companies aim to complete two trials by 31 March 2021, providing public health of...
YouTube announced on Twitter that it had suspended outgoing US President Trump's channel over concerns about potential to promote violence after one of the channel's recent videos violated the platform's policy. In addition, YouTu...
Twitter announced it has removed more than 70 000 accounts that promoted the QAnon conspiracy movement. The platform found the accounts related to posts that could potentially lead to offline harm. The removed accounts shared harm...
According to RTE, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has issued an opinion that a privacy complaint against Facebook does not have to be taken to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and can be h...
In a public letter sent to 25 tech companies, the NGO, Consumer Report urged the companies to improve privacy and security practices and settings of their Internet of things (IoT) products, mainly connected cameras. The letter det...