In the context of the ongoing .org sale controversy, a Cooperative Corporation of .org Registrants was formed in California, to offer an alternative owner of the .org registry. The cooperative's initial board members include, amon...
The US White House has published a set of draft principles for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The draft guidance notes that, when considering regulations or policies related to AI, governmental agenci...
In response to US Senators' inquiry about home security device company Ring's policy (subsidiary of Amazon), Amazon issued a public letter addressing their concerns about the privacy and security of Ring products. In the letter, t...
Interpol announced it had been coordinating an operation against cryptojacking (use of victims' devices to mine cryptocurrency) in Southeast Asia. The operation, entitled Goldfish Alpha, identified the infected MicroTik routers, a...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed a Rural Digital Opportunity Fund of US$20.4 billion to promote rural digital inclusion. The fund will be allocated over a period of 10 years and will be available to cable provi...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) launched a white paper that provides guidance on how to deal with business and policy challenges steaming from the introduction of 3D printing. The publication discusses the consequences of the adopt...
The US Senate has passed the bipartisan Developing and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act. The bill which was reintroduced in May 2019, would assemble a working group of federal entities and experts from the private and ac...
The Canton of Zurich has released the world's first set of educational materials on data security and privacy for kindergartens and younger primary school pupils aged four to six. The 'secrets are allowed' programme aims to instil...
In a new study titled 'Dark Patterns after the GDPR', researchers from the American and European universities show how most cookie-consent tools do not adhere to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to Tec...
According to Euractiv, the new EU commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton said in a interview that the European Union must make sure that business-to-business data is not harvested by China and the United-States, as fo...
During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Federal Trade Commission Chair expressed his support for a new federal privacy legislation in the United-States. But, Joe Simons also argued it would be a "huge mistake" to build ...
In Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc., 586 U.S. the Supreme Court confirmed that when an arbitration agreement delegates to an arbitrator the question of whether the agreement applies to a particular dispute, courts have...