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<p><span><span>This week, Brazilian telecom authorities reportedly launched a public consultation on potential updates and modernization of the country's internet governance framework with strong opposition from Civil Society.</span></span></p>
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<div>On securtiy, Marcus Hutchins<em></em>, who found a 'kill switch' for the WannaCry ransomeware, arrested
<span>in Las Vegas airport last week <span>has now been accused <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/man-charged-his-role-creating-kronos-banking-trojan">
of helping to create and distribute the Kronos banking Trojan</a> that was designed to steal funds from online bank accounts between July 2014 and July 2015.<br>
On infrastructure, the project of deploying the first submarine telecommunication cable in the Sourh Atlantic linking Africa to South America has been launched in Angola's capital Luanda. The project is
<span>expected to be completed by the middle of 2018</span>.<br>
<span>On access, Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered telecom companies to slowdown internet capacity for social media contents such as images and videos.</span><br>
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<span>On e-commerce, Russia's largest lender Sberbank and Internet company Yandex signed a non-binding contract to form a joint venture to develop an e-commerce ecosystem, the companies said in a statement Wednesday.</span><br>
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<span></span>On censorship, <span>China has launched an internet crackdown to stop users bypassing the country's "Great Firewall", "a sophisticated censorship system that blocks
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-media-bingeing-as-bad-as-junk-food-parents-warned-childrens-commissioner-anne-longfield-a7879066.html">
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube</a>, among other sites". <span>Also, China’s online watchdog has launched an investigation into reports of multiple violations at news services run by Tencent; Baidu and Weibo, as the government continues to tighten scrutiny over
internet content</span>. </span><span></span><span></span><span><span></span></span><br>
On data protection, <span><span>The British government has published its statement of intent regarding the country’s data protection laws wich
</span><span>will align with the EU's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation.
</span></span><span>Otherwise, TalkTalk has been issued with another fine for failing to look after customers’ data, 10 months after being hit with a
<a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450400451/TalkTalk-hit-by-record-400000-fine-over-data-breach">
record fine of £400,000</a>.<br>
On Internet of Things, <span>new survey by Cisco found that <a href="https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1847422">
one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success</a>. </span>
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As for event, we note the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy.<br>
Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents on Cyber geopolitics, domain name, net neutrality..<br>
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See review here<br>
<a href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-brazil-s-ig-reform-project-africa-south-america" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk384106">http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-brazil-s-ig-reform-project-africa-south-america</a><br>
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