[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance Weekly Brief

[Mamadou LO]

Hi all!
For your documentation, kindly find our weekly web review on Internet Governance<https://gouvernanceinternet.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/internet-governance-weekly-brief-cryptocurrency-content-privacy-data-protection-cybercrime-surveillance-cyber-geopolitics-blockchain-infrastructure-internet-resources-digital-ident/> with some main titles featured below.
Cordially
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
• UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund
• Paypal pulls out of Facebook Libra’s cryptocurrency
• Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency
• Central bank says Libra must operate like a bank if it’s to launch in UK
CONTENT
• Europe : Commission launches call to create the European Digital Media Observatory"
• Fighting Terrorism Online: EU Internet Forum committed to an EU-wide Crisis Protocol
• Russia and China to Sign Agreement on Combating Illegal Online Content
• Russian and North Korean state media join forces to fight 'fake news'
• Halle gunman posted video on Twitch livestream platform
• China and Taiwan go to war over Wikipedia edits as hundreds of changes to description of the island territory are uncovered
• Egypt Curbs Online Dissent With Street Searches: ‘He Asked to See My Phone’
• Thailand arrests man amid #royalmotorcade controversy
PRIVACY – DATA PROTECTION
• First Data Access Agreement under the CLOUD Act signed by UK and US
• Twitter apologises for using personal information to advertise to users
• Apple pulls Hong Kong police-evasion map from its app store, in latest corporate bow to China
CYBERCRIME
• European Union Finds Ransomware Is Top Cybercrime
• FBI investigating if attempted 2018 voting app hack was linked to Michigan college course
• US to help secure Baltic energy grid against cyber-attacks
• MITIGATING RECENT VPN VULNERABILITIES
• Iranian hackers targeted US 2020 campaign, says Microsoft
• Qatar affirms commitment to combating cybercrimes
SURVEILLANCE
• FBI’s Foreign Surveillance Program Violated Americans’ Civil Liberties, FISA Court Finds
CYBER GEOPOLITICS
• Russia used social media to support Trump in 2016 at direction of Kremlin, Senate intelligence report says
• “Five US Republican Senators have written Microsoft President Brad Smith to telling him he's underestimating the security threat
• “Nordic countries deepen collaboration with Estonia-based cyber security operation”
• EU and Cuba agree to collaborate more in favor of women’s rights and access to Internet
BLOCKCHAIN
• “EU publishes report on latest trends in blockchain technology”
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Member states publish report on EU-coordinated risk assessment of 5G network security
INTERNET RESOURCES
• Australian-based EU citizens to get access to .eu domains
DIGITAL IDENTITY
• US : New Department of Homeland Security biometrics system will identify people by scars, tattoos and palm prints

Read full review here:
https://gouvernanceinternet.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/internet-governance-weekly-brief-cryptocurrency-content-privacy-data-protection-cybercrime-surveillance-cyber-geopolitics-blockchain-infrastructure-internet-resources-digital-ident/


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