The U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok, the immensely popular short-form video app owned by China’s ByteDance, has sent shockwaves through the tech industry,…
South Africans take to social media on Black Tuesday in ‘secrecy bill’ protest
In the face of the imminent passing of the Protection of State Information Bill in parliament this afternoon, South Africans took to social networks…
Sergey Brin, wife donate $500 000 to Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has received a US$500 000 grant Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne…
Chinese games consortium sues Baidu for copyright infringement
A group of Chinese game developers has announced that it intends suing the country’s search giant Baidu for more than 30-million yuan (US$4.7-million) for…
Uncovered documents show tools governments use to monitor us digitally
The Wall Street Journal has published an exposé on technologies being sold to governments to enable them to intercept the publics’ digital communications. It…
