The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it has agreed with PIR over a 30-day extension of ICANN's time to review PIR's submissions concerning the .org sale. Under the org registry agreement, ...
To address the digital divide in Asia, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) drafted a Digital Infrastructure Strategy which identifies AIIB's broad vision: 'to play a leading role in financing the growth of Digital Infr...
Uganda's finance regulator ,Bank of Uganda has awarded fintech company Laboremus Uganda a contract to develop a digital ID verification system. The system will be used by all banks and other licensed financial service provid...
In a blogpost, the ICO Executive Director of Technology and Innovation announced that two key organisations (IAB And Google) of the adtech real time bidding industry (RTB) have started to follow previous privacy recommendations fr...
Experts have expressed concern that Russia' largest search engine Yandex has turned into a significant on-ramp for child sexual images and a platform for spreading illicit photographs. While there are various controls which b...
The German parliament has approved several new measures designed to help law enforcement agencies fight against sexual abuse of children online and the darknet. Few of the new changes include "cyber grooming" become punishab...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the African Union (AU) developed an online tool to remove non-tariff barriers (NTB) to trade in Africa: tradebarriers.africa. The tool, which was run on 13 Januar...
Singapore Ministry of Law has decided to change copyright law in order to boost the creative industry.Proposed changes will strengthen creators' right to attribution to their work, even if the work is not in their ownership anymor...
Facebook removed pages linked to Russian Sputnik news website for having breached the platform's terms of services. The pages mispresented their identities, pretending they were independent news services or fan pages related to ce...
Amidst discussions related to the EU copyright reform, a group of 95 screenwriters and directors formed a lobby group. The group advocates for proportional remuneration in article 14. They addressed their proposals in a letter sta...
According to India Today, Indian authorities are working on amending the IT Act in parts related to liabilities of intermediaries, to allow the government to monitor and remove user content and messages, including encrypted ones. ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked court to postpone oral arguments, that are scheduled for 1 of February, in a case that will rule on a challenge to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules. As the FC...