A4AI Affordability Report: Consumers in African countries pay the highest data rates in the world
Consumers in African countries are paying some of the highest rates in the world for internet access as a proportion
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Tech CEO’s from Amazon, AT&T, IBM, Salesforce among 51 companies pushing congress for data privacy law
The chief executive officers (CEOs) of 51 tech companies including Amazon, AT&T, Dell, IBM, Qualcomm, SAP, Salesforce, Visa, Mastercard, JP
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US senators draft Bill to force tech companies to disclose the user data they collect and how its monetized
Two US senators have proposed on Monday a bill in Congress to force tech companies to disclose what data they
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Recent Benin net shutdown costs the country $1.54 million a day
Benin held parliamentary elections Sunday leaving citizens without access to opposition candidates and the internet. Social media platforms including WhatsApp,
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Equatorial Guinea, Angola Among Africa’s Most Expensive Countries to Buy 1GB of Mobile Data
Those who live in low-income countries face the least affordable mobile broadband prices in the world. Now, new data from
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First big data breach of 2019: 773M Records, 21 million unique passwords exposed
It is the first big data breach of 2019. Data stored on cloud storage service MEGA has been reportedly compromised,
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Controversial data protection law approved in Spain
MADRID: The Spanish Senate approved Wednesday a controversial online data protection law which critics say will allow political parties to target
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Cambridge Analytica ghost bites, UK watchdog ICO Fines Facebook maximum $500K for data breach
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that it has hit Facebook with a maximum $500,000 ($645,000) fine around
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Google+ to be culled after a massive data breach that exposed 500,000 users’ data
Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that
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Thune led US Senate committee to hold hearings on ‘Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy’
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data
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