20 Jan 2022
The draft of the Digital Services Act (DSA) has passed the plenary vote in the European Parliament (EP), with important changes introduced through last-minute amendments. The amendments adopted by the EP included, among others: prohibition of advertising targeting minors, prohibition of the use of highly sensitive personal data (such as racial or ethnic origin, political (See more)
20 Jan 2022
Six anti-discrimination advocacy groups have won against Twitter International (Ireland) in case of online content moderation of hate speech in France. The appellate decision of the Paris court confirmed the ruling of the lower court ordered Twitter to share ‘details on the number, nationality, location and spoken language of the people it employs to moderate (See more)
19 Jan 2022
An investigation by the Royal Society, the independent scientific academy of the UK, concluded that removing false claims and harmful accounts from social media has little effect to combat disinformation. In fact, it could potentially backfire, driving disinformation to “harder-to-address corners of the internet and exacerbate feelings of distrust in authorities”. Frank Kelly, mathematics professor (See more)
19 Jan 2022
French MPs have voted in support of a draft law that proposes to protect children from online violence and sexual content. The law proposes to ensure manufacturers the right to pre install and activate parental control systems in devices sold in France. The bill has been unanimously approved in the lower house and been sent (See more)
14 Jan 2022
Spain is reportedly planning to establish a supervisory agency for artificial intelligence (AI), for which the government has approved a specific budget line. The intention is to create the agency in 2022 and have it fully operational in 2023. The new body – the first of its kind in the EU, if established – would (See more)
13 Jan 2022
The US Department of Commerce seeks experts for the IoT advisory board to advise the IoT Federal Working Group. The advisory board will include various stakeholders outside the federal government with expertise relating to IoT. The board will advise the federal working group in identifying: (1) federal regulations, programs, or policies that may inhibit or (See more)
13 Jan 2022
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), in collaboration with NanoAvionics launched a nanosatellite to enhance the operations, maintenance, and planning of its internet, electricity, and water networks.
13 Jan 2022
Standards for IOT are rising in relevance. They also cover two other areas of digital policy: health and labour rights. IEEE has many relevant standards in this field. Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org
13 Jan 2022
Internet watchdog Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported that child sexual abuse grew radically during the lockdown last year. The latest IWF figures indicate that self generated imagery showing 7 to 10 year olds increased three-fold”. A 21% increase from 2020 in number of URLs containing child sexual image (out of 361,000 reports investigated in (See more)
