Kenya's mobile network operator Safaricom, which also operates global mobile money service M-Pesa, has issued a call for proposals for the monetisation of customer location data in January 2020. According to the call, Safaricom bo...
The government of the Netherlands has established the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Foundation to support and strengthen the efforts of the GFCE community. The foundation's board which consists of Christopher Painter who ...
After three year of government-imposed ban, Wikipedia has been made available again for users in Turkey. The government had blocked access to the website as a matter of national security since Wikipedia's refused to remove content...
The Internet Society, PIR registry, and Ethos Capital have responded to the letter addressed to them by several members of the US Congress in December 2019. The response notes that the .org 'transaction is designed and intended to...
The EDPS released a new preliminary opinion on data protection and scientific research. Noting that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) assigns to scientific research a special regime, but with only few guidelines or com...
At the CES conference in Las Vegas, Facebook launched its new Privacy Checkup tool, which was first created in 2014. Rolling out to users globally, this new tool includes a 'Who Can See What You Share' feature allowing users to re...
Colombia has passed new tax rules that impose a 19% value added tax on Internet services paid by creditcard, primarily targeting over-the-top (OTT) services such as Netflix, Uber, Spotify, and Airbnb. In addition, large ...
The US intelligence services made their report titled "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections" publicly available. The report, commissioned by the US President Obama, provides details of the intelligenc...
ICANN and the US Department of Commercehave agreed to terminate the Affirmation of Commitments (AoI), a 2009 document which outlined the two parties' responsibilities towards each-other. Among its provisions, the AoI stresse...
Turkey's Minister of Communication announced in a television interview that the country is creating a domestic search engine and e-mail service 'compatible with national culture and values'. The measures would be taken in response...
During 2015, Venezuela installed approximately 20,000 fingerprint scanners to control purchases of basic necessities at supermarkets, in an effort , according to the government, to reduce food hoarding and panic buying, a move man...
The Geneva Internet Platform (GIP) launches its fourth edition of anin situ/online course aimed to assist Geneva permanent missions in actively following the increasingly relevant field of digital politics. The course will benefit...