According to a Reuters report, Brazil’s government will not bar Huawei from the country’s 5G network auctions that are scheduled for June 2021. President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro previously opposed... (See more)

Reuters reported that the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden dismissed an appeal by Huawei against its exclusion from the country’s 5G network spectrum auction. The court allows the Swedish Post... (See more)

A fifty six year old man from Canberra, Australia has been arrested by ACT Policing for several offences related child sexual abuse online. The arrest was made after the ACT Joint Anti Child... (See more)

Ebook customers have filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that the company has been violating antitrust laws by illegally colluding with five major publishing houses to inflate the prices of e... (See more)

Google has blocked several news websites for a small number of users in an attempt to conduct experiments to determine the value of its services to Australian news outlets. In 2020, the Australia... (See more)

A forty five year old Philadelphian woman has been sentenced to prison for child pornography and enticement. The woman impersonated her 16 year old daughter to seduce a boy based in Florida and then... (See more)

Apple and Google removed the Wimkin social media app from their online stores after the platform failed to moderate content considered violent. Wimkin describes itself as an ‘uncensored’ platform... (See more)

Uber has extended to more than 1,400 cities in the USA the Uber Green program that encourages drivers to use all-electric and hybrid vehicles. This initiative is part Uber’s broader aim to become a... (See more)

Turkish President Erdogan stated that Turkey will not give in to pressure by social media companies that put themselves above the laws and individual rights. Erdogan insisted on the importance of... (See more)

Several Uber and Lyft drivers filed a lawsuit before the California Supreme Court to overturn the ballot measure Prop 22 that allows the platforms to have its drivers as independent contractors and... (See more)

Uber and Moderna will partner to explore solutions to support the uptake of Covid-19 vaccines in the USA. The companies announced they will work together initially to provide credible information on... (See more)

The US Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to reinstate in-person requirements for abortion medication during the pandemic. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, lower courts have... (See more)

The UK National Health Service (NHS) Directors of Public Health will test the COVID-19 immunity passport that was developed by Mvine and iProov. The companies aim to complete two trials by 31 March... (See more)

YouTube announced on Twitter that it had suspended Trump’s channel over concerns about potential to promote violence after one of the channel’s recent videos violated the platform policy. In addition... (See more)

Twitter announced it has removed more than 70 thousand accounts that promoted the QAnon conspiracy movement. The platform found the accounts related to posts that could potentially lead to offline... (See more)

According to RTE, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued an opinion that a privacy complaint against Facebook does not only have to be taken to the Irish... (See more)

Airbnb announced it will analyse all Washington DC reservations and cancel the bookings regarding individuals found to be related to hate groups. Individuals engaged in the riots of the Capitol on 6... (See more)

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel considered the US president Donald Trump’s ban from Twitter problematic, according to her spokesman Steffen Seibert. Seibert mentioned that online platforms shall... (See more)

The social network Parler has sued Amazon before a US federal court, accusing breach of antitrust laws. Parler was suspended from Amazon’s cloud computing service for alleged violations of its term... (See more)

Amazon has suspended pro-Trump social network Parler from its hosting service Amazon Web Services (AWS) by alleging that it has violated the term of services. The suspension means that Parler will... (See more)

Amazon and eBay started working on removing several QAnon products from their online markets by alleging that their trade breaches policies that prohibit the purchase of offensive items that mainly... (See more)

Over 50 civil society organisations have sent a letter to the European Commission demanding that clear regulatory red lines are introduced in the Commission’s upcoming legislative proposal on... (See more)

Scientists at the Columbia University in New York, USA have used a gene editing technique to store digital data inside living bacteria. With the help of a CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced... (See more)

According to the Financial Times, British Airways is facing the largest group claim over a data breach following a 2018 incident that exposed details of more than 400,000 customers. More than 16,000... (See more)

The US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has established the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office to oversee and implement the national artificial intelligence (AI)... (See more)

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and a pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reached an agreement that will enable all citizens in Israel aged over 16 to receive the vaccine by... (See more)

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started an investigation to assess whether Google’s proposals to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser could cause advertising spending to... (See more)

The City of Philadelphia, USA and the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia launched a request for proposal (RFP) to quantify the number of households that are without Internet connectivity or relying on... (See more)

Facebook has removed accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of trying to manipulate public debate before national elections. Uganda is holding presidential and parliamentary... (See more)

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have launched a new webpage providing comprehensive access to the WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers. This database... (See more)

The UK High Court has held in its ruling Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2021] that the issuance of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain forms of... (See more)

In the Netherlands, the Delft University of Technology and Royal DSM – a nutrition, health, and sustainable living company – have announced the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence Lab for... (See more)