[kictanet] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] IG Weekly Brief : Tech giants to attend G7 Summit; Robot to speak at UN; EU to tax tech giants; vulnerability discovered in WPA2 protocol; cloud services market to grow; WTDC-ITU; North Korea & cyber attacks

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

FYI

SUMMARY


This week, the world’s major internet companies are attending a G7
summit for the first time, in an urgent attempt to draw up tough new
rules to counter the dramatic rise in the use of social media by cyber
exremism. Besides, the European commission is seeking to give police
greater powers to decrypt private messages as part of a wider proposal
to crackdown on criminals.

On Artificial intelligence, "A robot named Sophia was a panelist at a
United Nations meeting Wednesday to demonstrate how artificial
intelligence could help the organization move faster in facilitating
progress and development across the globe".

On taxation; France's President Emmanuel Macron made progress on his
push to make companies like Amazon pay taxes where they make profits,
and not in tax havens as European Union leaders said on Thursday they
looked forward to seeing proposals on taxing online giants by early
2018.

On cybersecurity, North Korea has dominated the headlines in recent
weeks, as international tension climbs over the country’s nuclear
aspirations and capabilities. Furthemore,

Security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens have detected a
major vulnerability in the WPA2 protocol that secures all protected
Wi-Fi networks.

On digital rights, dozens of influential civil rights groups have
called on EU decision-makers to abandon proposals for compulsory
proactive copyright filters. Their open letter, addressed to European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and colleagues, warns that
monitoring citizens' Internet traffic would restrict fundamental
rights while running counter to the Electronic Commerce Directive.

On digital economy, the global public cloud services market revenue is
expected to grow by 18.5 percent in 2017 reaching $260.2 billion, up
from $219.6 billion in 2016, according to the latest
report<http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3815165> from Gartner, Inc.

On event, we note the World Telecommunication Development
Conference-ITU in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents
on cyber geopolitics, fake news, hate speech...


See review here :

http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-tech-giants-to-attend-g7-summit-robot-to-speak-at



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