Pakistan launched its first-ever digital population and housing census on Wednesday in an effort to securely gather demographic data on every individual ahead of this year’s parliamentary elections, officials said. The digital count will provide data for policy decisions, which now are
The German government on Monday pushed back against a demand by the country’s data protection commissioner to take down its Facebook page over data privacy concerns. The commissioner, Ulrich Kelber, said Wednesday that he had given the government’s press office four weeks
The Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years,” the Pentagon said Wednesday. When similar balloons passed over US territory on four occasions during the Trump
Italy’s Data Protection Agency said on Friday it was prohibiting artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika from using the personal data of Italian users, citing risks to minors and emotionally fragile people. Replika, a San Francisco startup launched in 2017, offers users
The European Union on Monday launched a project to collect and aggregate cancer imaging data in an effort to speed up innovation and early cancer diagnosis using artificial intelligence. The new European Cancer Imaging Initiative will give clinicians, researchers and innovators “easy
California: Police provide details on dance hall shooting suspect As members of the Asian community in a quiet Los Angeles suburb celebrated the Lunar New Year over the weekend, a gunman took the lives of 10 people, injuring a further 10, at
The Met police has launched an investigation after a laptop containing “sensitive” data was stolen from an MP’s office on the parliamentary estate, a news report claimed. According to the report, the MP was left in shock after he couldn’t find his
Coronavirus: UK to impose screening on travellers from China The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on China to share more data on its ongoing COVID-19 situation — after Beijing last week reported recording nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over one
UK strikes happening first week of January Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) embarked on another 48-hour strike on Tuesday as the pay dispute ongoing for over six months spilled into the New Year. Although the
Comment on this story Comment The number of incidents in which children under age 6 accidentally ate edible cannabis products rose to 3,054 in 2021, up from 207 in 2017 — a 1,375 percent increase, according to a study of national poison