The Thirty-fifth Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC 35) was convened virtually between 1-4 September 2020 where governments...
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CNIL inquiry into contact tracing app closed
In June 2020, the French data protection authority, CNIL undertook a review of the StopCovid app to establish whether the app is in accordance with data processing and privacy regulations. CNIL noted...
In order to ensure the interoperability of contact tracing apps within the EU and secure exchange of related data, eHealth Network published the architectural specification of the Federation Gateway...
With the support of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCO), the GSMA launched the Innovation Fund for Assistive Tech which addresses barriers to digital inclusion of people with...
Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the US District Court of the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a class action suit against Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center, alleging that they...
Facebook has made a policy change that it will allow the company to notify third party developers when it finds a security vulnerability in their code. Developers have 21 days to acknowledge the...
The US Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit has decided that the National Security Agency (NSA) metadata program collecting billions of phone records was illegal since it violated the US Foreign...
The International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing has issued a set of recommendations on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), noting that the technique raises...
Saskatchewan government in Canada enacted the Fiduciaries Access to Digital Information Act, becoming one of the first Canadian provinces to enact a legislation protecting fiduciary’s access to the...
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US HHS releases roadmap for rural telehealth
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Rural Action Plan that focuses on evaluating and addressing challenges facing rural communities regarding healthcare. The action plan...
Through the Seniors Go Digital programme, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the SG Digital Office (SDO) are working to enhance the digital skills of 100 000 seniors by March...
Major online platforms including Facebook, Amazon, and Google urged the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject the federal administration’s request to restrict online platform’s ability...