Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its operations in Europe following a court order demanding it to stop tra…
European Commission pushes back plans for AI legislation to 2021
The European Commission president, Urusula von der Leyen, has revealed that new legislation governing the use of AI w…
‘Europe’s Digital Decade’: how the EU is pitching tech as the driving force behind its recovery
In a state of the union address on Wednesday (16 September), the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der…
New national data strategy ‘threatens’ UK data adequacy resolution
The government’s new national data strategy could jeopardise Britain’s chances of securing an adequacy de…
Drone delivery: accelerated by Covid-19 but not yet taking off
The pandemic has unleashed a swarm of new technologies, especially within the logistics industry. While drones have b…
John Tasioulas named as first director of Oxford’s AI ethics institute
Oxford University has appointed John Tasioulas, a philosophy professor at King’s College London, as the inaugur…
Internet Society launches tool to protect the open web
The Internet Society has developed a tool for policymakers that aims to preserve the internet’s open and free standar…
Privacy-focused search engines return more health misinformation, researchers claim
A new study overseen by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) claims that privacy-preserving search engines such as Duc…
Industry ‘cautiously’ welcomes plan to overhaul digital ID, but privacy campaigners warn of weak protections
Industry experts have “cautiously” welcomed the government’s plans to overhaul its beleaguered digi…
UK will keep the ‘Facebook tax’ for now, says the Treasury
The UK government says it will keep the digital services tax (DST) until there is an international framework for taxi…