Did COVID 19 enhance data as the new oil?
Data in the 21st century is like oil in the 18th century, an immensely valuable untapped asset whose fundamental value and usage will reap huge rewards. In this automated world and digitized economy, data...
Category: Cyberspace
Coronavirus, Security, and the Cyber-Order
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The coronavirus crisis represents an opportunity to analyze the concept of security beyond military might. The pandemic, which resembles a form of biological warfare, is being accompanied by incessant cyberattacks, and most countries...
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says
A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the...
What is more disruptive with AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?
Throughout most of the human evolution, both progress and its horizontal transmission was an extremely slow, occasional and tedious process. Well into the classic period of Alexander the Macedonian and his glorious Library of...
India in the Cusp of Emerging Nuclear-Cyber-Threats
A largely futuristic, yet so plausible threat now seems to be necessitating India’s attention. Cyberspace has revolutionised the idea of traditional national security, cashing on its ability to be ubiquitous. Cyberthreats are the new...
FBI Chief Says Russia’s ‘Information Warfare’ Against U.S. Has Not Eased
The chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says Russia is conducting an “information warfare” operation against the United States ahead of the 2020 presidential election, although he says he has not seen...
Indonesia to step up data protection with new bill amid booming digital economy
Indonesia’s government has submitted a bill to parliament aimed at protecting consumer data in the digital era, which includes a punishment of up to seven years in jail for distribution of personal data without...
Reserve Bank of India: Cryptocurrency is not banned
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a clarification about its view of the legal status of cryptocurrency in the country, in the midst of an ongoing high profile court battle over its...
The Digital Diplomat
The new millennium has closed its second decade upon us, and the time for introspection cannot be more pertinent. The world has been irreplaceably altered in its countenance, with fault lines animated old and...
BRICS countries deem a single cryptocurrency
Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, which took place in Brazil in mid-November, President of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev came up with a proposal to create a common...
