Airbnb submitted its response to the European Commission’s proposed Digital Services Act and detailed the sort of general framework it supports. Public consultations on the Act which will regulate...
Senate Republicans have introduced a draft bill ‘to establish data privacy and data security protections for consumers in the United States’. According to Bloomberg, Senator Chairman Roger Wicker...
Based on a tip-off from the International Criminal Police Organisation’s (INTERPOL) Crime Against Children unit, the Brazilian Federal Police’s Child Exploitation Unit (NURCOP) has arrested a fifty...
India’s Common Services Centers, responsible for the delivery of e-government services to citizens, has launched a WhatsApp chatbot for citizens. The chatbot is meant to help bridge the digital divide...
Twitter has expanded its policies on election related misinformation, by either adding fact-checking labels or hiding tweets that have 'false or misleading information that causes confusion' about...
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FAO and Google launch big data tool ‘Earth Map’
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and tech giant Google have launched a big data platform called ‘Earth Map’ that allows users to explore climate, environmental and agricultural...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed the European Parliament and pledged that the Commission would drive Europe’s sustainable and transformational recovery, focusing on several...
European Union is planning to propose its own digital tax on internet giants if no agreement is reached on a global level to update taxation rules in the digital era, EU president Ursula von der...
Uber has launched the tool Uber Eats Contactless Order Feature, which enables customers to pay their restaurant bills via the app in the US. The aim is to prevent exchanges of heavily touched items...
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) publish the final public draft of the NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide Special...
According to Vice, the personal information of more than 2.4 million individuals from several countries (including the USA, Australia, and India) have been leaked from a secret database owned by...
The US National Institute of Health (NIH) has selected six companies and one university to partner in developing digital health tools in support of coronavirus response efforts. The seven awardees...