According to Compliance Week, the Italian data protection authority (DPA) has fined the telecommunications operator WINDTRE €16.7 million for violating data collection provisions of the EU’s General...
The government of Alberta has introduced a contact-tracing app in May 2020. In order to be fully functioning, this app needs an update which requires co-operation from Apple and Google. According to...
According to Bloomberg, Google was fined €600 000 by the Belgian data protection authority (DPA) for failing to delete links deemed harmful to a person’s reputation under the EU’s right to be...
The UK based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has published a report that assesses the impact of social media accounts sharing anti-vaccination content between May and June 2020. The report...
According to Bloomberg, the company Walmart is now facing a proposed class action for having violated California’s privacy law and failed to protect customer data from an alleged hack. The complaint...
The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, has called for submissions on the increase of violence against women (VAW) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest UN Women...
The GSMA published a new report titled Supporting the Growth of the Tech Start-up Ecosystem in Uganda: A Policy Outlook which looks at the role of mobile in the tech start-up ecosystem in Uganda...
The general state attorney in Massachusetts has sued Uber and Lyft, alleging that they illegally misclassify their drivers as independent contractors. The attorney asked for the court to rule that...
The general state attorney in Massachusetts has sued Uber and Lyft, alleging that they illegally misclassify their drivers as independent contractors. The attorney asked for the court to rule that...
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Kenya reveals digital tracing system
The Ministry of Health in Kenya is scaling up its COVID-19 contact tracing system to integrate online and offline capability. This was revealed during a parliamentary inquiry, where the Cabinet...
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WHO launches AI for Quitting Tobacco Initiative
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it designed and developed the organisation’s first virtual health worker, Florence. Florence uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help tobacco...
Microsoft has announced that it will extend the partnership with Allscripts to further support Allscripts’ cloud-based electronic health-record platform Sunrise. The five-year extension will enable...