INEC concludes CVR in Anambra, records 168, 187 new voters, updates on party registration - ITREALMS

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in Anambra State, ahead of the off-cycle governorship election, reports ITREALMS.

The Commission revealed that a total of 168,187 new voters were registered, with 97,832 (58%) being female and 70,355 (42%) male.

ICANN proposes updates on .COM registry agreement renewal, opens comments - ITREALMS

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened a public comment on the proposed renewal of the .COM Registry Agreement (RA), reports ITREALMS.

Disclosing this, the Senior Vice President, Global Domains & Strategy at ICANN, Theresa Swinehart said there are some updates on the process.

Google updates AdSense, AdMob for GDPR

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Google, the owners of AdSense and AdMob has updated the products to comply with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU privacy frameworks, reports ITRealms.

These updates, ITRealms gathered, were made to meet the needs of publishers around the world as AdSense and AdMob products continue to improve. 

Also ITRealms reports that the updated terms included new provisions about feature testing, invalid activity and policy compliance as well as how Google handle payments to publishers.

ITRealms further reports that the updated terms introduced new data protection terms related to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU privacy frameworks.

“Specifically, the updated terms incorporate our controller-controller terms and our updated EU User consent policy,” Google AdSense team revealed.

Further, ITRealms reports that action is required, urging publishers to sign in to their AdSense account to review and accept the updated Terms of Service.

“We recommend that you consult your legal advisor if you have questions about the terms,” the team said.

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LinkedIn updates ToS, warns on hate speech

ITREALMS: LinkedIn has proclaimed an updates on its Terms of Service (ToS) to every individual user of its services, warns of harassment and hate speech attracting permanent restriction, reports ITRealms. This follows the proposed European Commission new regulation on data, otherwise known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to take effect from May 8, 2018. ITRealms reports that Sara Harrington, Vice President of Legal at LinkedIn was quoted as saying that the ToS was to afford LinkedIn users an overview of some of what’s new. These changes, Harrington said, impact the User Agreement, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Professional Community Policies and are effective May 8, 2018. “Anytime we make updates, we hope to make it easy for you to understand your choices and the control you have over your data and content on LinkedIn,” Harrington said. She outlined some of the details worthy of note to include that they are making it even easier to understand the data we have about you, how you can correct it and how you can ask us to stop using it. “Our new settings give you more control over ads you see and more transparency about the data shared with advertisers,” she said. Harrington cited for example, that harassment and hate speech are not welcome on our platform and could result in permanent restriction from LinkedIn. “If you are being paid to share or endorse a product or service, you need to disclose that you’re being paid for your opinions or actions,” she advised. According to her, refreshed community policies make sure LinkedIn stays a platform where people act professionally. “Built from our well-established community guidelines, these policies encourage discussions that can help our members be more productive and successful, and outline what activity may be stopped by LinkedIn,” she said. LinkedIn maintained that users privacy comes first in all of these updates. “We now meet the high standard for data privacy introduced by the new European data protection law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect later in May. LinkedIn members around the world will benefit from many of these changes,” Harrington declared. Remmy Nweke/ED, Ops

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U.S. Senate redesigns website, updates

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The United States (U.S.) Senate has updated its website after close to a decade, reports ITRealms.

Investigations by ITRealms revealed that last weekend, saw the U.S. Senate redesigned, refreshed, and updated website.

The new website, is reported to be more user-friendly with clear sections to navigate the site including Senate floor proceedings, archives, and upcoming Senate committee hearings – along with the easy to search Senators link and Committees link.

Observers said it is a much better resource for those wanting information on activity involving the U.S. Senate.

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ICANN updates gTLD Marketplace Health Index 2016

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published an update to the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Marketplace Health Index trial version, reports ITRealms.

This, ICANN also said that the index presents statistics and trends related to generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

ITRealms recalls that the gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta) was first published in July 2016.

ICANN plans to publish these statistics twice a year to track progress against its goal of supporting the evolution of the domain name marketplace to be robust, stable and trusted.

Even as a community Advisory Panel is working with ICANN to refine the Index in preparation for publishing version 1.0.

ITRealms further recalls that ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet.

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