May 2013 Blog Posts (6)

The role of governments in Internet governance is under wider scrutiny this month. Debates during the ITU's World Telecommunications Policy Forum (WTPF) in Geneva, legal developments from the US House of Representatives, and the tumultuous developments at ICANN and its Government Advisory Committee (GAC), have cast a spotlight on governments' role and the multistakeholder model.…

               Facial recognition (FR) involves the automatic processing of digital images where individuals are recognized by their unique facial features. Specifically, FR facilitates the notion of matching the name with a face and increases the risk of revealing one’s sensitive information. This paper discusses the privacy and data-protection implications surrounding the proliferation of facial recognition technology (FRT) and presents a harmonized approach to…

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The IGF Secretariat has announced the composition of the new MAG in a press release. We thank everyone who participated in the selection process: first, those who offered their names for consideration, then those involved in the discussions, encouragement and endorsement processes around the world. You can read more about Diplo's MAG member endorsement process…

On May 13 at CICG, Genève, the ITU will host…

During the online classes on cyber security at Diplo Foundation a lot was discussed about cyber security and cyber crime. At that time most of the discussion points seemed alien to some of us from developing countries, sorry my country Uganda is not a developing nation but an underdeveloped country with out a cyber security team in police, no CERT teams whatsoever in the nation and a very naive society as regards cyber…