IG Weekly Brief : UN Artificial Intelligence Centre; Europol for cyber crime legislation; Tech firms to testify on Russian interference in US politics; KSK rollover postponed; Pope Francis on Fake news; WTO Public Forum; Forum on Internet Freedom

[Michael J. Oghia]

Same here Paul. I've expressed my thanks to Mamadou before, but additional
expressions of appreciation and gratitude never hurt.

Thanks so much Mamadou! And please keep it up. I too read it every week.

Best,
-Michael

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Paul Rosenzweig <
paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com> wrote:

> Dear Mamadou
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> I know others have said this before, but let me say that this summary is
> really valuable.  It is probably the only one that I get each week (and I
> get dozens) that I always make sure to read.  Thanks
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> Paul
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> *From:* NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] *On Behalf Of
> *Mamadou LO
> *Sent:* Friday, September 29, 2017 1:45 PM
> *To:* NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Subject:* IG Weekly Brief : UN Artificial Intelligence Centre; Europol
> for cyber crime legislation; Tech firms to testify on Russian interference
> in US politics; KSK rollover postponed; Pope Francis on Fake news; WTO
> Public Forum; Forum on Internet Freedom
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>
> *SUMMARY*
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> This week, The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research
> Institute (UNICRI) planning to open the new Centre for Artificial
> Intelligence and Robotics, a headquarters in The Hague to monitor
> developments in artificial intelligence.
>
> On cybersecurity, Europol has called for tough new legalisation to tackle
> cyber crime at the end of a 12-month period that saw the scale, rate and
> spread of hacker activity reach unprecedented levels : Ransomware has
> emerged as the top cybercrime recently; WannaCry and Petya ransomware
> attacks had crippled many firms lately; a "growing sophistication in the
> cybercrime community". In addition, Cyber criminals are now able to access
> ATMs through bank networks, according to the report
> <https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/white_papers/wp-cashing-in-on-atm-malware.pdf>
> by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre
> <https://www.europol.europa.eu/track/click/1079/1924>. Furthemore, The
> United States has asked China not to implement its new cyber security law
> over concerns it could damage global trade in services, a U.S. document
> published by the World Trade Organization showed on Tuesday.
>
> On cyber geopolitics, executives from Facebook, Alphabet's Google and
> Twitter have been asked to testify before the U.S. Congress in coming weeks
> as lawmakers probe Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election,
> committee sources said on Wednesday.
>
> On hate speech online, The European Commission
> <https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0629846D:BB> is calling upon social
> media companies including Facebook and Alphabet to develop a common set of
> tools to detect, block and remove terrorist propaganda and hate speech.
>
> On Domain name, "the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> ("ICANN") today announced that the plan to change the cryptographic key
> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ksk-rollover/#overview> that helps
> protect the Domain Name System (DNS) is being postponed".
>
> “Fake news” and journalism as a force for peace are the themes chosen by
> Pope Francis for the Church-sponsored World Day of Social Communications
> 2018".
>
> As event, we note WTO Public Forum, the Forum for Internet Freedom in
> Africa and Interpol Cybercrime Conference.
>
> Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents on
> Artificial intelligence, Net neutrality; illegal content online
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>
>
> See full document here :
>
> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-
> brief-un-artificial-intelligence-centre-europol-for
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