In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 13th October 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. TikTok celebrity gets BJP ticket for upcoming Haryana elections The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Haryana unit has nominated TikTok sensation Sonali Phogat as its candidate for the Adampur seat in the upcoming state elections. Read it here USA, Australia start negotiating negotiate data access executive agreement under CLOUD Act Today, the United States and Australia have formally started negotiating an executive agreement under the American CLOUD (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act which will allow the two countries to demand electronic data from tech companies based in the other country without legal barriers, the US Justice Department told MediaNama in an email. Read it here 'We support you on end-to-end encryption,' 58 civil society organisations to Facebook In a show of support that has typically eluded Facebook, 58 civil society organisations around the world wrote to Mark Zuckerberg, “encouraging” him to continue increasing end-to-end “security” across the company’s messaging services. Read it here Petition in Kerala High Court seeks ban on Telegram, cites terrorism and child porn A petition has been filed in Kerala High Court seeking a ban on messaging app Telegram, stating that it is used to promote child pornography and terrorism, and that it presents law enforcement issues, reports Bar & Bench. Read it here USA, Japan sign Digital Trade Agreement, stand against data localisation In their Digital Trade…
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