A bill aimed to provide for the regulation, inspection, and labelling of food produced using animal cell culture technology was introduced in the US House of Representatives. Titled 'Food Safety Modernization for Innovative T...
A medicine designed by using artificial intelligence (AI) is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. Developed by British start-up Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical firm Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, the medicin...
European Union lawmakers voted strongly in favour of common chargers for all mobile devices. A resolution approved by 582 votes to 40, with 37 abstentions, calls upon the European Commission to introduce rules on common cha...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the WhatsApp Pay will be rolled out during the coming six months in several countries. The peer-to-peer, UPI-based payments feature was tested in India in 2018 and had one million users which...
According to IAPP, the Italian Competition and Market Authority has announced the launch of a noncompliance procedure against Facebook in regards to a 2018 order on personal data use. The authority alleges that the company has not...
The High Court has suspended Kenya's biometric ID programme until a comprehensive legal framework on digital ID is developed. This followed a petition by civil society groups and the national human rights institution on grou...
A survey entitled 'Views on the EU digital agenda' conducted by the Vodafone Institute in member states of the EU shows that more than 68% of Europeans believe that legislation and policy has a positive impact on their country's d...
The US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) held apublic workshop dealing with cybersecurity in medical devices. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the newly released draft guidance 'Content of Premarket Submissions for Man...
A proposed settlement of the Yahoo's data breach, which was meant to cover 200 million people across the US and Israel with close to 1 billion accounts has been rejected by a US judge due to lack of transparency. The judge could n...
ICANN has issued its third Legislative and Regulatory Report summarising recent and pending privacy and data protection, as well as cybersecurity legislation as of 31 December 2018. The report includes enacted regulations and curr...
A research carried out by a an assistant professor at New York University looked into the economic system behind spam related to the sell of fake luxury goods. Along with fake pharmaceuticals, fake luxury goods stand as one of the...
While there's progress in closing the cybersecurity skills gap, there's still plenty of work to be done to ensure that organizations have the talent they need to secure their critical assets. According to the (ISC)22022 Cyber...