Reuters reports from Lima that the presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon Inc the rights to the .amazon domain. Amazon Inc has been seeking the exclusive rights to the .amazon domain name since 2012. But Amazon basin …
A Brazillian judge has ordered WhatsApp service be reinstated across Brazil, granting an appeal by the messaging app’s parent company, Facebook. The order overturns a regional judge’s ruling on Monday ordered all telephone operators in Brazil to block WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, for failing to turn over data as part of an ongoing drug …
Brazil’s politicians are on a collision cause with the country’s young generation of YouTube addicts over planned restrictions on the Internet. The country’s congress is debating a series of bills that would mean Internet users in Brazil would have to provide their full name, home address and taxpayer ID to every website they use. Those …
A judge in Sao Paulo has ordered WhatsApp to shut down for 48 hours, starting at 9pm Eastern tonight. WhatsApp is the single most used app in Brazil, with about 93 million users, or 93% of the country’s internet population. It’s a particularly useful service for Brazil’s youth and poor, many who cannot afford to …
GAC has been now found to be one of the biggest impediment to ICANN’s accountability and transparency standards this is due to the several times that GAC’s intervention of the new top level domain has been found to be meddling with applicants without reason or strong reasons to back their consensus objection. Applicants for strings …
The co-chairs of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA4] and Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA1] have written to ICANN informing them that they need to approve Amazon’s application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to “rights” asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest raised by Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). …
The ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) articulation and handling of several new top level domains has received under the ICANN new gTLD release has received a new critical but worrisome analysis from the US congressional Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure , Oversight and Government reform and Judiciary. The GAC which created under the ICANN ByLaws …
By Monika Ermert on policyreview.info The internet has become an inevitable topic of discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos – a global encounter of business and state leaders. Cyberwar has popped up two times in the top five list (2012 and 2014) of the Forum’s Global Risk Report. In the just …
U.S. Aims to Defuse Tension Over Control of Internet Some Nations Push for New Supervisory Body The U.S. has agreed to give up supervision of the Internet policy-making body that controls domain names, hoping to satisfy countries that want more international control over the Internet. This week, Washington will find out if its actions have …
Brazil is playing host this week to the “World Cup of internet governance”, as technology magazine Wired put it. States, hi-tech firms and civil society players will compete over how the net is managed. A Swiss negotiator gives his insights. Frédéric Riehl, deputy director of the Federal Communication Office, is one of three Swiss negotiators …