The African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) think-tank released a study Thursday on privacy protections in six African countries. They found that governments in Africa are abusing new technology and surveillance laws to violate citizens’ privacy rights. The report is the first comparative analysis of African legal frameworks on surveillance covering Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, [...]

A staff report from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found Thursday that many internet service providers (ISPs) are collecting and sharing large amounts of data from their customers without offering them meaningful choices regarding the use of such data. The information report stems from a series of orders issued by the US FTC in [...]

Singapore’s media regulator, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), canceled Friday the license of a local news site for failure to disclose all its sources of funding in its 2020 annual declaration. The Online Citizen (TOC) was founded 15 years ago and often publishes stories that were critical of the government, one of which recently led [...]

A group of Indian app developers and start-ups, the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), on Monday filed a petition before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Google’s new billing policy which is expected to come into effect in March 2022. ADIF has challenged Google’s new policy of imposing proprietary in-house payment processing systems [...]

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OPIC) of Canada published on Thursday the findings of its investigation into Alcanna Inc.’s retail liquor stores in Alberta. The investigation found that Alcanna’s use of ID scanning technology violated the Personal Information Protection Act of Alberta (PIPA) by collecting more than the reasonable extent of personal data. [...]