The decision by Italy's data protection authority to block access to Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT last Friday, citing alleged privacy violations, may have kicked off a trend of European countries banning the AI chatbot.  Reuters reports a spokesperson for the German Federal Data Protection Comm...

Australia said Tuesday it will ban TikTok on government devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app due to national security fears. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the decision followed advice from the country's intelligence agencies and would begin "...

Sitting at the heart of youth culture, TikTok is beloved of its more than 1 billion users worldwide. With a range of compelling content that extends from viral dances to comedy skits, cleaning hacks, BookTok, music and the Gen Z melancholy of the corecore trend, it is the app of the 21st century. As...

France has banned the “recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees’ phones because of concerns about in insufficient data security measures The ban is to come into force immediately, the Ministry of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service wrote o...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned university education for women nationwide, as they continue to crush rights to education and freedom. Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives, ignoring intern...