IG Weekly Brief : OECD on digital firms taxation; WTO to create electronic commerce WG; Consultation on tax regime in Europe; Bad Rabbit ransomware; Putin on cyber extremism; WhatsApp sharing data with Facebook

[Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Thank you Mamadou.


   1. During the week of the WSIS in Geneva, the WTO was already actively
   considering E Commerce and I remember thinking how even though this had
   been listed as a policy area within the WGIG 2015 Report, that over the
   years, there didn't seem to be a lot of synergies harnessed to lead to a
   Best Practice Forum within the IGF processes;
   2. Would people be interested in having a Best Practices Forum on these,
   if so, let me know so that we can communicate it in our discussions within
   the MAG;
   3. The Caveat is that the Secretariat is pressed for Funds but in a
   volunteer driven community, we could make headway.

Kind Regards,
Sala

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com> wrote:

> *SUMMARY*
>
> This week, digital economy on Internet Governance headlines as, "OECD on
> October 25 released public comments from 52 individuals and groups on the
> design of new international tax rules for digital firms. The comments,
> released in two documents, Part I
> <http://www.oecd.org/tax/beps/tax-challenges-digitalisation-part-1-comments-on-request-for-input-2017.pdf>
> and Part II
> <http://www.oecd.org/tax/beps/tax-challenges-digitalisation-part-2-comments-on-request-for-input-2017.pdf>,
> aim to help an OECD task force prepare an interim report on the issue, to
> be presented to G20 finance ministers in April 2018". Also; A group of
> WTO countries have begun working to create an electronic commerce working
> group under the WTO umbrella that would become a forum for issues such as
> information communication technology infrastructure and services; trade
> logistics; payment solutions; regulatory frameworks; technical assistance;
> and access to finance. Furthemore, the European Union is asking its
> citizens to help decide on a fairer tax regime for large digital
> corporations that may include a tax on their global profits
> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/global-profits>. Firms such
> as Amazon <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Amazon> Google and
> Facebook have often been accused of paying too little tax within the bloc
> by establishing their regional headquarters in low-tax countries
> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/low-tax-countries> such as
> Luxembourg and Ireland.
>
> On cyber extremism, russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday
> that law enforcement agencies must take tough action against persons and
> groups using the Internet for extremist ends.
>
> On cyber geopolitics, British lawmakers have asked Facebook to release
> information about Russian-linked activity around the U.K.'s European Union
> membership referendum and recent election.
>
> On security, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are among the nations that have
> fallen victim to Bad Rabbit, which appears to be related to Petya. Russian
> media outlet Interfax confirmed the attack on Tuesday morning, several
> other outlets were reportedly attacked as well.
>
> On data protection, having first raised the issue in 2016, EU regulators
> have now issued a second warning about WhatsApp sharing user data with
> parent company Facebook.
>
> Below, informations on those subjects as well documents net neutrality,
> cyberpolitics.
> Regards
>
>
> Read weekly review in full here:
> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-
> brief-oecd-on-digital-firms-taxation-wto-to-create
>



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