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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>SUMMARY</u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">This week, t<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">he
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has successfully deployed a new ticketing system via mobile phones based on blockchain</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
technology, according to an August 16 press release</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">A<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">s the world’s problems grow, multilateralism represents to best path to meet the challenges that lie ahead, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres has said in his annual report.</span><font face="Calibri"> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">On data protection, brazilian president Michel Temer has signed a data protection bill into law this week. The new rules, which will be enforced
in 18 months, aim to protect data about individuals and businesses online and prevent the commercial use of information such as names, telephone numbers and addresses without consent of the user in question.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">On domain name, almost 400 million domain names were registered across all top-level domains (TLDs) in Q2 2018, according to a Verisign report</span><font face="Calibri">.
Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief showed that there has been an increase of six million (1.8 percent) domain registrations compared to the first quarter for the year. Domain registrations have grown overall by 2.4 percent, year-over-year.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">On Encryption, the Australian government is proposing new laws that would require international tech giants like Facebook, Google and Apple to provide
access to encrypted communications to law enforcement for policing crime.</span><span style="margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">On child online protection, a paedophile with a twisted interest in babies and toddlers has been jailed after being found with more than 630,000 child abuse images</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; font-size: 12pt;">On artificial intelligence, the controversial Project Maven received
a 580% funding increase in this year’s bill. As AI and machine learning algorithms are integrated into defense tech, spending is only going to increase in years to come.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The parent company of two popular Russian social network sites has asked the government to stop prosecuting social media
users under anti-terrorism laws, and offer an amnesty for people already convicted.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.53px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.53px; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Facebook has admitted being too slow in combating the use of its platform to perpetuate violence
in Myanmar.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">UN chief says Multilateralism only the path to address world's troubles</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk750421" href="https://www.brecorder.com/2018/08/15/434082/un-chief-says-multilateralism-only-path-to-address-worlds-troubles/" previewremoved="true">https://www.brecorder.com/2018/08/15/434082/un-chief-says-multilateralism-only-path-to-address-worlds-troubles/</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Facebook admits being too slow in dealing with Myanmar violence role</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk2289" href="http://fortune.com/2018/08/16/facebook-myanmar-rohingya-hate-speech/" previewremoved="true">http://fortune.com/2018/08/16/facebook-myanmar-rohingya-hate-speech/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Brazilian president signs data protection bill</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk638354" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/brazilian-president-signs-data-protection-bill/" previewremoved="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/brazilian-president-signs-data-protection-bill/</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">UEFA implements blockchain based ticketing system</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk99877" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/union-of-european-football-associations-implements-blockchain-based-ticketing-system" previewremoved="true">https://cointelegraph.com/news/union-of-european-football-associations-implements-blockchain-based-ticketing-system</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Facebook Google WhatsApp in the firing line as Australia reveals encryption law</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk764767" href="https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-google-whatsapp-in-the-firing-line-as-australia-reveals-encryption-laws/" previewremoved="true">https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-google-whatsapp-in-the-firing-line-as-australia-reveals-encryption-laws/</a><br>
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Vkontake's parent company asks russians officials to decriminalize harmless internet content </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk628708" href="https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/08/15/vkontake-s-parent-company-asks-russian-officials-to-decriminalize-harmless-internet-content" previewremoved="true">https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/08/15/vkontake-s-parent-company-asks-russian-officials-to-decriminalize-harmless-internet-content</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Domain name registration boom continues, according to Verisign report</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk385445" href="http://www.ipprotheinternet.com/ipprotheinternetnews/article.php?article_id=6150" previewremoved="true">http://www.ipprotheinternet.com/ipprotheinternetnews/article.php?article_id=6150</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Pentagon's artificial intelligence program get huge boost in defence budget</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk990250" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90219751/pentagons-artificial-intelligence-programs-get-huge-boost-in-defense-budget" previewremoved="true">https://www.fastcompany.com/90219751/pentagons-artificial-intelligence-programs-get-huge-boost-in-defense-budget</a><br>
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