Internet Governance in April 2016

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Main events in April

3-6 Apr: Global Privacy Summit 2016 (Washington DC)

3-8 Apr: IETF 95 (Buenos Aires)

4-6 Apr: IGF Open Consultations and MAG meeting (Geneva)

5-6 Apr: Launch of Council of Europe's Strategy for the Rights of the Child (Sofia)

7 Apr: 7th Russian IGF (Moscow)

16-18 Apr: Open Geneva Hackathon 2016 (Geneva)

18 Apr: UNCTAD E-Commerce Week (Geneva)

20-22 Apr: WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Market (Geneva)

22 Apr: South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG) (Belgrade)

25 Apr: Technological Innovation for Digital Policy Issues (Geneva)

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• Russia-India-China: reaffirm UN’s key role in cybersecurity; support the adoption of universal rules on state behaviour

• US-Russia renew efforts to prevent countries from mistakenly attributing attacks to each other

• Mobile apps & Internet services (incl. Whatsapp, Viber, Wordpress) switch on encryption

• Panama Papers leak: breach exploited a common website vulnerability

Security

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Privacy & human rights

• EU-US Privacy Shield: Article 29 Working Party has serious concerns over complexity, and public authorities’ access to data

• EU adopts GDPR: more user control of data, right to request erasure of data, right to data portability. Implementation is main challenge

• Council of Europe adopts Recommendation on Internet Freedom; European Convention on Human Rights applies both offline and online

• UNCTAD’s report on data protection regulations suggests core set of principles as starting point for more compatibility & harmonisation…

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UNCTAD: Data protection core principles

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Global IG architecture

• G7: Joint Communiqué expresses concern over threats posed by terrorists’ use of the Internet and social networks; reconfirms that existing international law applies to cyberspace; reaffirms commitment to multistakeholder approach

• 11th IGF will be in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 6-9 December

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Sustainable development

• G7 Foreign Ministers commit to ‘utilizing ICTs in addressing global issues and achieving progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’

• Online discussions on science, technology, and innovation for SDGs are ongoing; discussions will feed into the first multistakeholder forum on science, technology, and innovation for SDGs (New York, 6-7 June)

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Infrastructure

• The telecom regulatory authority in Morocco is sued for blocking VoIP services. Agency said foreign entities did nothave the necessary telecoms licenses to operate

• European Commission launches European Cloud Initiative, which will see creation of European Open Science Cloud (virtual environment for & science professionals to host/share data), & deployment of a European Data Infrastructure

• Spam volumes continue to decrease (report from Trustwave)

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Net Neutrality

• White House threatens to veto passage of anti-net neutrality bill; the bill could remove US FCC’s authority to set broadband rates or review whether a rate is reasonable

• Egypt’s decision to block Facebook’s Internet.org came after the company refused to accede to surveillance requests, Reuters reveals

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E-commerce and Internet economy

• European Commission: Google has breached EU anti-trust rules by abusing dominant position in Europe & imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators

• UNCTAD’s E-Commerce Week: data protection, e-trade, measuring e-commerce. Launch of Data Protection Report, & B2C E-commerce Index

• WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Market: sustainability and emerging economic models of the digital content

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UNCTAD’s B2C E-commerce Index 2016: Top 10 economies

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Jurisdiction and legal issues

• EU’s new GDPR expands its territorial reach to non-EU entities processing the personal data of Europeans

• One-stop shop under GDPR: where a company has multiple establishments in different EU countries, it will fall under responsibility of lead authority in the country of the company’s main establishment

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IANA Transition

• ICANN and Verisign will run parallel test of root zone management system for 90 days, to verify the integrity of data contained in root zone file following the transition

• Ongoing call for comments on ICANN’s new draft bylaws; draft reflects recommendations contained in the IANA stewardship transition proposal and in the accountability proposal

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Main events in May

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1-7 May: Fast Africa - Action Week for Internet Rights (throughout Africa)2-6 May: WSIS Forum 2016 (Geneva)2-6 May: LACNIC 25 (Havana)9-13 May: CSTD 19th Session (Geneva)10-12 May: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security(Boston)11-14 May: ITU-D Global Symposium for Regulators 2016 (Sharm el-Sheikh)17 May: Belarus Internet Governance Forum (Minsk)23-26 May: 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (San Jose)23-27 May: RIPE 72 (Copenhagen)24 May: Swiss IGF (Bern)25 May-2 June: ITU Council: 2016 Session (Geneva)

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From the Geneva Internet Platform & DiploFoundation

Past events…8 April: Presentation of Cybersecurity Competence Building Trends study (follow-upwebinar on 19 April)25 April: Conference on Technical Innovation for Digital Policy

Ongoing…Leading up to WSIS Forum 2016: Live updates and reporting will be provided on GIP Digital Watch observatory

Upcoming…30 April: Issue 10 of the Geneva Digital Watch newsletter2 May: Discussion: Engaging Digital Actors - Fostering Effective Digital Policy - Monitoring Digital Governance (Geneva & online, during WSIS Forum 2016)4 May: Discussion: Ensuring Civil Society's Voice is Heard in ICANN (Geneva)31 May: Next briefing on Internet governance (Geneva, hubs, online)

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Regional updates

Local hubs & regional perspectives

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