1.0 Introduction People have shared and collaborated from the commencement of civilization. Notwithstanding, the Internet’s emergence has heralded a new period of sharing because of the volume of activities as well as the new ways of doing these activities. According to Gomez‐Alvarez and & Morales‐Sánchez (2021), the sharing economy or collaborative economy has a turnover
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The stranger threatened to send her naked photo to her family and schoolmates if she wouldn’t give him a “show”, and thus he got more photos to threaten her with them. Despite submitting to his demands, Amanda was surprised when she found out that her photo was being circulated over the Internet.
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Press Release: Although two years have passed since the Personal Data Protection Law (PDP) have been issued (July 2020), it is still suspended because its executive regulations weren’t issued yet, though issuance articles of the law have determined the date of issuing the executive regulations to be within 6 months of the coming into
The Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes Law (Cybercrime Law) has handled the sanctity of private life in a separate chapter under the title of “Crimes Related to Violating the Sanctity of Private Life and Informatic Illegal Content.
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Internet Critical Resources (ICRs) might be the most important and the hottest areas of contestation in Internet Governance. To appreciate the importance of ICRs, and thus understand the causes of the fierce struggles around their governance, let’s first have a clear idea of what they are.
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Blockchain technology has increasingly become common and popular because it allows for scalable, inexpensive, and secure data management. It also enables users to develop smart contracts which can substitute traditional agreements. While blockchain was first developed in 1991, its development has provided it with the capacity to digitalize a whole government
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Introduction In his foreword for the Global Connectivity Report 2022, issued by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Houlin Zhao, the Secretary-General of the union, points out that “over the past three decades, the number of Internet users went from a few million in 1992 to almost five billion in 2021.” However, “one-third of humanity remains
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Surveillance Companies in the MENA Region Blue Coat Systems CacheFlow was established in 1996 in the USA before its name was changed to Blue Coat in 2001 and its headquarters moved to the state of California. In 2016 Symantec acquired Blue Coat in a deal estimated at 4.65 billion dollars. After finalizing the deal, the
In July 2021, the world followed a flow of investigative reporting by a group of press organizations that worked together to expose the use of the Pegasus spyware, which is produced by NSO Group, to spy on journalists, activists, human rights defenders, and political opponents. Investigations revealed that the spyware was used to target more
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