In an article published on Indian Express, H.E. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Indian Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and IT, holds that social media organizations should formulate measures to identify content that is not to be published. The Minister seeks for consensus to impose stricter regulations on social media. Find the article here.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) launched a competition investigation in January 2021, over concerns that Google’s proposals for third-party cookies would cause online advertising spending to become even more concentrated on Google, weakening competition and so harming consumers who ultimately pay for the cost of online advertising. The tech giant has now reviewed...
The Brazilian National Congress promulgates the Constitutional Amendment 115, which makes the protection of personal data, including in digital media, a fundamental right. Brazil is another key economy granting such status to the privacy right of citizens and consumers.
The Government of Israel shall create a commission for inquiry to investigate allegations that the Israeli police used spyware software for surveillance of Israeli public figures. The spyware in question was made by the NSO Group, a surveillance software firm based in Israel which already faced numerous allegations for its software Pegasus that has been...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) issued a press release to welcome the full bench of the Australian Federal Court decision to reject Facebook Inc’s appeal to set aside an earlier ruling by a Justice of the Federal Court granting the Australian Information Commissioner leave to serve legal documents on the US-based entity....
The Office of Information Security of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a report providing insights into the May 2021 Conti ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. With the report, the HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) provides advice for US healthcare and public health...
A press release reads that the European Union Commission has published a study mapping and estimating the volume of data flowing to main cloud infrastructures across the 27 Member States, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. The study provides an overview of volume and types of cloud data inflows and outflows per economic sector, location,...
The press release of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) informs that it has fined a Welsh company for making more than half a million unsolicited marketing calls. The ICO underlines that it is against the law to make marketing calls to phone numbers that have been registered with the Telephone Preference Service for more...
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