4th Session May 10th 12:30 PM (EST) The Death Penalty & Political Violence
Partners: Amnesty International Canada, Paivand Society, Canadian International Council, Carleton University’s Youth & Justice Lab, The Human Rights Research and Education Centre and Mardom Foundation Inc and Paivand Society.
4th Session May 10th 12:30 PM (EST) The Death Penalty & Political Violence
Partners: Amnesty International Canada, Paivand Society, Canadian International Council, Carleton University’s Youth & Justice Lab, The Human Rights Research and Education Centre and Mardom Foundation Inc and Paivand Society.
The regulator said it had received information that messages containing stock tips and other investment advice with respect to selected listed companies are being widely circulated through websites and social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. In this regard, Sebi collaborated with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to reduce the vulnerability of the securities market to manipulation through misuse of mass communication medium like bulk SMS. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts.
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