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With the Paris Call, Macron wants to limit cyberattacks
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:22:31 +0000 (UTC)
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/12/with-the-paris-call-macron-wants-to-limit-cyberattacks/ By Romain Dillet Techcrunch.com November 12, 2018French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech at the Internet Governance Forum at the UNESCO in Paris. While the IGF has been around for a while, it hasn’t been as active as some would have hoped.
That's why the French government is issuing the Paris Call, a short three-page document on cybersecurity. President Macron hopes to foster the IGF and create a subgroup of countries (and companies) that can agree on cybersecurity issues.
"Fist, internet works and is here. And even though news bulletins are riddled with cyber incidents, we blindly trust tech tools," Macron said.
And yet, according to him, if the global community can't agree on appropriate regulation, there’s a risk for the integrity of democratic processes. He thinks that there are currently two sides. Authoritarian governments already filter internet requests to restrict the web to a subset of the internet, while democratic countries let anyone browse a (mostly) unfiltered web.
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