According to a publication, Egypt's Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) signed an agreement of US$135 million with Orange Egypt to build and operate its data centre and cloud computing platform in the New Administr...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wrote a letter to Apple seeking assistance to access the contents of phones at a case in Pensacola, Florida, citing a high priority national security investigation. FBI has been unable ...
A new report dubbed the Global Cost of Internet Shutdown 2019 has assessed the total economic impact of all the major Internet and social media shutdown in the year 2019. The report made use of the Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST) dev...
Project Zero changed in a trial 12-month mode its vulnerability disclosure policy to faster and improve patch adoption and development. Starting from 2020 Project Zero will keep information for full 90 days by default, regard...
YouTube has now set limits on the amount of data creators can collect on content for children. YouTube will now consider all viewers on children's content as children below 10 years, and collect and sanitise their data accordingly...
World Bank Group, Chief Economist, Pinelopi Goldberg announced that the 2021 World Development Report (WDR) will tackle 'data for development'. Goldberg stated in a letter that the theme was chosen seeing the importance of good qu...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the second public draft of NISTIR 8259 Recommendations for IoT Device Manufacturers: Foundational Activities and Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline....
The new rules of the European Union for consumer protection in the context of the digital economy entered into forceon 7 January, following the approval of the Directive on Better Enforcement of Consumer Protection Rules (Omnibus ...
A US mortgage broker has agreed to pay$120,000 to end a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the company had breached federal financial privacy rules. The company had posted personal details about consumers in response to neg...
Google has agreed to pay$7.5 million in a settlement to end a consumer class action over past data breach caused by Google+ software bugs. According to Bloomberg, the plaintiffs had alleged that in 2019 two data leaks had caused t...
The government of Gabonshut down the Internet and broadcasting services after an attempted military coup against the President. Later on the same day, government officials stated that everything was back to normal, despite continu...
The UK Department for Transport concluded its public consultation concerning thefuture of drones in the UK. The consultation proposed policies for drone use and enforcement and touched upon the following topics: the minimum age re...