This week, Data protection on headline as UK Internet data collection ruled illegal by the European Court of Justice backing a challenge to the so called 'general and indiscriminate retention' of emails. On Net Neutrality, U.S Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has announced he will leave the agency on January 20, the day of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration while FCC's two Republican members told ISPs on Monday that they will reconsider net neutrality rules "as soon as possible." On Facebook's WhatsApp takeover, European Commission alleges that Facebook breached EU procedural rules for merger approvals. On internet event, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the League of Arab States (LAS) hold a Workshop on the Outputs of the Arab IGF 2020 Initiative's Technical Cooperation Working Group Cairo, 20-22 December 2016. Below, informations on those subjects as well as documents on cyberpolitics, intentional internet shutdown, Big data..

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