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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: """,serif;"><u>SUMMARY</u></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">This week; Internet users worldwide are becoming more worried about their privacy online and many question the protections
offered by Internet and social media companies, a new United Nations survey has found.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(88, 84, 76); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">On digital economy, the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD) has called for a holistic policy approach towards digitalisation and trade.
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">On cybersecurity, using the 2018 RSA Conference</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(88, 84, 76); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">
as a backdrop, Microsoft has joined 33 other IT companies in signing the Cybersecurity Tech Accord,</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(88, 84, 76); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">
a pledge to protect users from cyber-attacks.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(59, 59, 59); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">On data protection, Facebook is taking its first formal steps this week toward complying with the European Union’s
new data privacy regulations, known as the GDPR, which are set to go into effect on May 25.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Russia’s internet watchdog has blocked an estimated 16m IP addresses in a massive operation against the banned Telegram messaging app</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
that could set a new precedent for Russian online censorship.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">On infrastructure, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed that a telecommunications subsea cable
between the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australia will go live at the end of 2019.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(40, 30, 30); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">More child sexual abuse images are being discovered online than ever before as paedophiles go to new lengths to evade
detection, a report has warned.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(40, 30, 30); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Below, informations on those subjects and events as well documents on cybersecurity, internet of things...</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u><b>UNCTAD E-COMMERCE WEEK</b></u></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Digital technologies provide fertile ground for Africa</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk882835" href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1723" previewremoved="true">http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1723</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b><u>CYBERSECURITY TECH ACCORD</u></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u>Facebook, Microsoft, and 32 other tech firms sign cybersecrity pledge</u></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk833936" href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/17/facebook-microsoft-and-32-other-tech-firms-sign-cybersecurity-pledge/" previewremoved="true">https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/17/facebook-microsoft-and-32-other-tech-firms-sign-cybersecurity-pledge/</a></u><b></b><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b><u>UNITED NATIONS ON ONLINE DATA AND PRIVACY PROTECTION</u></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Global anxiety depens over online data and privacy protection - UN agency</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk979955" href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1007402" previewremoved="true">https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1007402</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u><b>DIGITAL ECONOMY</b></u></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u>European Commission introduces bold new pax plan for the digital economy</u></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><u><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk863591" href="https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=145409dd-17c0-4e23-aff3-13764ba1ed37" previewremoved="true">https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=145409dd-17c0-4e23-aff3-13764ba1ed37</a></u><b></b><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b><u>FACEBOOK ON GDPR</u></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Facebook is taking its first steps to comply with Europe's strict data privacy rules</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk715195" href="https://www.recode.net/2018/4/18/17249406/facebook-eu-gdpr-europe-data-privacy-rules" previewremoved="true">https://www.recode.net/2018/4/18/17249406/facebook-eu-gdpr-europe-data-privacy-rules</a></p>
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<div><b><u>TELEGRAM BANNED IN RUSSIA</u></b></div>
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<div><u>How messaging app Telegram gets around Russia's ban</u></div>
<div><u><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk234932" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/04/19/how-messaging-app-telegram-gets-around-russias-ban/#4b10d6bc5240" previewremoved="true">https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/04/19/how-messaging-app-telegram-gets-around-russias-ban/#4b10d6bc5240</a></u></div>
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<div><b><u>SOLOMON ISLANDS SUBSEA CABLE</u></b></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Turnbull confirms Solomon Islands subsea cable</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk899745" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/turnbull-confirms-solomon-islands-subsea-cable/" previewremoved="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/turnbull-confirms-solomon-islands-subsea-cable/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b><u>CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION</u></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Child questioned as 2018 marks record number of childline calls</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk678766" href="http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/child-welfare-questioned-as-2018-marks-record-number-of-childline-calls-12072/" previewremoved="true">http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/child-welfare-questioned-as-2018-marks-record-number-of-childline-calls-12072/</a></p>
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