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Angolan president demands curbs on social media

December 18, 2015July 27, 2016 creative africa, alastair-sharp, chief-executive, illustration, logo-on-display, man-poses, obama-on-friday, portuguese, president, santos, sarajevo, software-began, waterloo, world

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos called on Friday for a crackdown on social media, heightening concerns about the tolerance of dissent or political opposition in Africa's number two oil producer. In a surprise television address, dos Santos, who has run the former Portuguese colony since 1979, said websites such as Facebook were useful for disseminating information but were being abused to publish “derogatory and morally offensive content”

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Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign

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By Roberta Rampton and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online. “I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” Obama said in a televised Oval Office speech

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Obama urges tech, law enforcement to address social media used for plots

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The White House is urging Silicon Valley to help address the threat posed by militant groups by restricting the use of social media for planning and promoting violence, a senior administration official said on Sunday. In coming days, the White House will talk to companies in the tech sector about developing a “clearer understanding of when we believe social media is being used actively and operationally to promote terrorism,” said the official, speaking on background

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Venezuela sues black market currency website in United States

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By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Central Bank filed a lawsuit on Friday with allegations of “cyber-terrorism” against a U.S.-based website that tracks the OPEC member’s currency black market. The DolarToday site has enraged President Nicolas Maduro’s government by publishing a rate in Venezuelan bolivars for the greenback far higher than the three official levels under Venezuela’s 12-year-long currency controls. The lawsuit, in the U.S

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Disney’s ESPN withdraws content from YouTube

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(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co's sports network ESPN said it will not make its content available on YouTube, due to the recently announced ad-free subscription-based offering coined YouTube Red.

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Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon give Wall Street reason to cheer

October 23, 2015 creative across-the-tech, amazon, chief-executive, microsoft-corp, newly-elected, photo, playa, president, relies-on-sales, search-traffic, sports-network, tech, united, word

Google parent Alphabet Inc , Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc made headway in the latest quarter in the areas that will be their main engines of growth for years to come, driving up shares across the tech sector on Friday. For Alphabet, search traffic on mobiles surpassed desktop traffic worldwide for the first time, while Amazon was able to boost margins, an area of concern, as its cloud business boomed

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EU launches inquiry into web companies’ online behavior

September 24, 2015 admin amazon, europe, european, european-union, facebook, inquiry, its-global, president, provides-more, reuters, such-as-google, tech-companies, unfairly-uses

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission on Thursday launched an inquiry into the behavior of online companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to try to gauge whether there is a need to regulate the web. It is not clear whether the inquiry will lead to any regulation of the Internet in the European Union, but it provides more evidence that mainly U.S

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U.S. and China in urgent talks on cybersecurity deal: NY Times

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(Reuters) – The United States and China have been engaged in urgent negotiations in recent weeks on a cybersecurity deal and may announce an agreement when President Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on a state visit on Thursday, the New York Times said on Saturday.

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Obama warns China on cyber spying ahead of Xi visit

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By Roberta Rampton and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for an international framework to prevent the Internet from being “weaponized” as a tool of national aggression, while holding out the prospect of a forceful U.S. response to China over hacking attacks

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Turkish magazine raided, copies seized for mock Erdogan selfie

September 14, 2015 admin alleged, federal-court, francisco, man-typing, office-banned, ordered-raids, police-raided, president, united

By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mocked-up “selfie” of a smiling President Tayyip Erdogan with the coffin of a soldier – an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be happy about their martyrdom. An Istanbul prosecutor’s office banned distribution of the latest edition of Nokta magazine and ordered raids on its offices over charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda”, after the cover was published online, the magazine said in a statement. The cover depicted a grinning Erdogan in shirt-sleeves taking a selfie, in the background a coffin draped in the red Turkish flag being borne along in state by soldiers.

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