A new Executive Order issued by U.S. President Joe Biden, calls on federal agencies in the United States to examine the implications of the dramatic growth in the digital assets markets absent appropriate regulation and urges them to consider launching a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

The Order aims to reduce the risks that digital assets might pose to ...

The European Commission published a newly proposed regulation for data access and reuse, aimed at facilitating free access to digital data by businesses, academic institutions, public administration, consumers, and other stakeholders. The proposed regulation does not aim to govern personal data, but rather technical data.

Among other issues, the proposed regulation intends to enable consumers to freely access and use ...

A report issued by a special investigation team found no indications that the Israel police had warrantlessly infected, or attempted to infect, smartphones with spyware. The team was assembled by the Israeli Attorney General to examine the allegations raised by the Israeli newspaper Calcalist, according to which the police perform systematic warrantless surveillance of innocent individuals using NSO’s “Pegasus” spyware. ...