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UNSG announces Roadmap for Digital Cooperation
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his speech before the UN General Assembly announced the presentation of a Roadmap for Digital Cooperation that will cover Internet connectivity…Law enforcement using secret private facial recognition app
Privacy advocates have raised alarm over news that law enforcement authorities in several countries are using an app developed by Australian start-up Hoan Ton-That. The app enables users to upload a p…New law in Qatar further threatens freedom of expression
On January 19 th the Ministry of Justice in Qatar announced the promulgation of a law aimed at tackling disinformation issues. This new legislation will criminalize a broad range of journalistic activ…Turkey restores access to Wikipedia after 991 days
Turkey as of 15 January 2020 has restored fully access to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. This has brought to an end the block of the popular online resource that lasted some 991 days. A report pre…First legal challenge in Singapore after ‘Fake News Law’
Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) implemented in October 2019, demands that individuals and organisations amend posts that the government considers to be false…Report shows the cost of global Internet shutdowns in 2019.
A new report dubbed the Global Cost of Internet Shutdown 2019 has assessed the total economic impact of all the major Internet and social media shutdown in the year 2019. The report made use of the…The growing consensus for the Paris Call and 'The Internet of Trust'
One year after the French president Macron called for the Internet of Trust, the coalition of signatories is growing. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, France’s Minister of State attached to the Minister for Eur…The First meeting of the Group of Friends on Digital Technologies held in New York
On 21 November, the first meeting of the Group of Friends on Digital Technologies was held in New York. On the occasion, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted that ‘new technologies, a…UN Committee passes the resolution towards developing an international convention against cybercrime
The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly has passed (88-58, with 34 abstentions) the resolution on countering the use of ICT for criminal purposes, proposed by Russia and 26 other countries. The…
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