Kenya's Ministry of Health announced that it has rolled out Trusted Travel, an online 'trustworthy and safe' system to strengthen the ministry's ability to verify, authenticate, and validate COVID-19 test results and vaccine certi...
Nineteen members of the New York City Council have proposed a bill that would regulate the use of automated employment decision tools -systems that use algorithmic methodologies to filter candidates for hire or to make decisions r...
The social network Parler has been suspended from Apple and Google's app stores for failing to moderate content that incites violence. Both companies have announced that they support diverse points of views, however their terms of...
According to the Express Tribune, the minister for Science and Technology of Pakistan has announced efforts to introduce a new data protection law to protect citizens' privacy in the wake of WhatsApp's privacy policy changes. ...
As part of a larger project supported by the Pulitzer Center regarding property rights and vulnerability in Puerto Rico, an interactive map of the country was created. This project looks at the effects of economic and environmenta...
The Supreme Court in India has pronounced that the indefinite Internet restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir are against the Indian constitution. The court has given the government a week to review the shut-downs. The court based its ...
The Belgian's telecoms minister Philippe De Backer informed parliament of the recommendation to elevate the security level on 5G to allow the government to institute restrictions on 'unreliable' suppliers. The current risk level f...
According to the Wall Street Journal, a judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered Facebook and the US government to file written responses by January 24th to civil society groups, critical o...
Uber will stop operating in Colombia after 31 of January. Uber announced its decision after a judge ruled the ride-hailing company violated Colombian competition laws. The dispute started in 2016, when the taxi associati...
A spokesperson from Instagram and Facebook has stated that the platforms are removing posts which support the Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, in compliance with the US sanctions. The Irainian government has protested...
According to a news report, the Supreme Court of India has made a pronouncement that the Internet restrictions that has lasted for several months in Jammu and Kashmir is a breach of fundamental human rights and unconstitutional. T...
Nokia plans to launch a solution, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) that would allow mobile network operators to dynamically share spectrum using different technologies. One of the benefits of this is the faster rollout of new 5G ser...