Policy/Legislation

After Apple and Google, Amazon also banned “free speech” social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules on January 11, 2021. The conservative social network...

WhatsApp published its new privacy policy last week. As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp was forcing its users outside of the EU to agree to share their...

GoDaddy booted one of the biggest gun site and forum AR15.com because of certain content on AR15.com last Monday. In the following two days, AR15.com posted a tweet...

After Apple and Google, Amazon also banned "free speech" social network Parler.com from its web hosting service for violating rules last weekend. Amazon has suspended the company from...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the cyber-attacks have diversified, and data security is getting more important. Therefore, companies need to focus on cybersecurity protocols to protect privacy and data....

As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp is forcing its users outside of the EU to agree to share their information with Facebook starting early February 2021 with...

EURid announced that the organization has notified by email all UK registrants and their registrars that as of 1 January 2021 their domain name is no longer compliant...

DigitalOcean has joined the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative for CDN and Cloud Providers to reduce common routing security threats. The initiative outlines actions network...

A French regulator, the CNIL’s restricted committee, which is responsible for imposing sanctions, fined the company Amazon Europe Core and Google 155 million Euro for having placed advertising...

auDA unveils new rules for .au domains, following approval by the auDA Board at its 10 November 2020 meeting. The new rules will come into effect on 12...

Data center service provider maincubes announced a partnership with Dutch service integrator, Intergrid to offer tailored solutions hosted on secure and reliable infrastructure, located and operated in Europe....

Great Firewall Report announced the recent blocking of TLS connections with the ESNI. Encrypted SNI (ESNI), introduced in TLS 1.3, encrypts the SNI to protect it against intermediaries....

US Department of State announced that the Clean Network program that aims to guard internet users' and companies' sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as...

Microsoft's Sustainability Calculator is now available in a private preview. It allows customers to calculate their total carbon emissions caused by their cloud usage. It also shows users...

Twilio stated that according to the result of its survey, the pandemic accelerated companies' digital communications strategy by six years. Twilio surveyed over 2,500 enterprise decision-makers globally to...

The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) and The Domain Name Association (DNA) announced that the duo will merge to form the largest Internet infrastructure advocacy group in North America....

Many technology companies are changing their terminology to avoid words that can be considered racist, such as master/slave and blacklist/whitelist. Linus Torvalds announced that Linux is joining the...

MySQL team announced in a blog post that negative words, such as master/slave or blacklist and whitelist will be replaced in the upcoming releases. The company has started...

DotGov Program announces its intent to preload the .gov TLD in the future to make it safer. DotGov's solution includes domains submitting to the HSTS preload list. The...

GitHub is showing its support for Black Lives Matter protests by changing certain terms. GitHub CEO announced on Twitter that the company is working on the change. The...

GoDaddy has started to redact personal information in Whois records to protect the Domain Holder's privacy which is based on principles of applicable privacy laws. Previously, the company...