Two US house lawmakers have introduced a new bill 'The Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today Act' to strengthen the existing Child Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). The bill calls for allowing pare...
In an attempt to protect children online from exploitation, Microsoft has released a new tool code named 'Project Artemis' that can scan online chats to identify patterns of attempts to exploit children online. By scanning histori...
With an aim to institutionalise cryptocurrency, the South Korean Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (PCFIR), a committee focused on co-ordinating regulatory policy around technology in South Korea, suggeste...
At the request from the European Commission in order to set the regulatory framework with regards to ICO and crypto-assets in general, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a guideline in which classified cryp...
Redbanc, the company that connects the ATM network of Chilean banks,disclosed that it was infiltrated by hackers sometime in December 2018. As reported by trendTIC, the source of the hack was a LinkedIn ad for a developer position...
Denmark based company Bluetown, announced its Airband Initiative with Microsoft which will bring Internet access to approximately 800 000 people in underserved communities in the Eastern region of Ghana. TV white space and w...
Cyprus signed the Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the automatic processing of personal data (CETS No. 223), providing multilateral legal framework that facilitates the flow of data...
The South Korean government held a meeting to discuss required institutional and legal frameworks for emerging sharing economy companies. Shared economy of space, finance, and knowledge were the main sectors debated by government ...
During a closed meeting with Internet companies, the European Commission called for a more efficient takedown of illegal content -including extremist content and hate speech, as well as breaches of intellectual property right...
The Open University in the UK, which was established in the 1960s as an distance learning university with the aim of widening access to higher education, is undergoing substantial transformation towards shifting its priorities tow...
The 'Meltdown' attack targeting the Intel chips and the Specter processor flow revealed an additional vulnerability in the cloud: it allowed customers on the same platform to access each other's data. In light of this, major publi...
According to the State'sannual report, over 5.3 million North Carolina consumers were impacted by 1,022 data breaches in 2017, marking a 15 percent increase over 2016. The escalating trend encouraged state Attorney General (AG) Jo...