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<a href="http://t.co/QUMJtq4HRS">http://t.co/QUMJtq4HRS</a></p><p class="">Best,</p><p class="">Eduardo</p><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Eduardo</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Eduardo Bertoni <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:ebertoni@alumni.gwu.edu" target="_blank">ebertoni@alumni.gwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks a lot Carolina. This is extremely helpful to understand the domestic process in Brazil.
<div><br></div><div>I have a question to you and my fellow brazilian colleagues. You said in your email that the new version received great support from the Brazilian civil society. Does this support include the support of the new art. 11, 12 and 13?</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to receive the reactions/comments from other people in the network. Maybe I am missing something but those articles includes provisions that form me, first, are not very realistic from an implementation perspective, and second, if this idea
is supported in Brazil, I don´t know how we will oppose the same idea for other countries that could use the provisions to go against local civil society groups.</div><div><br></div><div>I copied below the articles mentioned above:</div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:2.75pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:13pt;background-color:yellow">Art. 11.
</span>Any process of collection, storage, custody and treatment of records, personal data or communications by connection providers and Internet applications providers, in which at least one of these acts occurs in the national territory, shall respect Brazilian
law, the rights to Privacy, and the confidentiality of personal data, of private communications and records.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">§ 1 The provisions aforementioned apply to data collected in the national territory and the content of communications, in which at least one of the terminals is located
in Brazil.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">§ 2 The provisions aforementioned apply even if the activities are carried out by legal entity located abroad, provided that at least one member of the same economic group
owns property/is established in Brazil.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">§ 3 The connection providers and Internet applications provider shall provide, in the form of regulations, information that allow the verification regarding compliance
with Brazilian legislation regarding the collection, custody, storage and processing of data, as well as how the provider respects the privacy and secrecy of communications.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">§ 4 Decree shall regulate the procedure for finding violations of the provisions of this article.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">Article 12. The Executive Branch, through Decree, may force connection providers and Internet applications providers provided for in art. 11, who exercise their activities
in an organized, professional and economic way, to install or use structures for storage, management and dissemination of data in the country, considering the size of the providers, its sales in Brazil and breadth of the service offering to the Brazilian public.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">Article 13. Without prejudice to other civil, criminal or administrative penalties, violations of the rules laid down in Articles 10, 11 and 12 shall be subject, as appropriate,
the following sanctions, applied individually or cumulatively:</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">I - warning, indicating the deadline for corrective action;</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">II - a fine of up to ten percent of the gross revenues of the economic group in Brazil in its last financial year, excluding taxes;</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">III - Temporary suspension of activities involving the acts specified in Clauses 11 and 12, or</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">IV - the prohibition of the exercise of activities that involve the acts referred to in Articles 11 and 12.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="234" valign="top" style="width:3.25in;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:black;border-bottom-color:black;border-left-color:black;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:2.75pt"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif';">Single paragraph. In the case of a foreign company, its subsidiary, branch, office or establishment in the country will be jointly and severally liable for payment of
the penalties aforementioned. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>I look forward to hearing from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>e</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Eduardo</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Carolina Rossini <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,
<div><br></div><div>*** sorry for cross-posting ***<br><div><br></div><div>during the past few days I used some hours translating the new version of the Marco Civil made public last week.
<div><br></div><div>This version has receive great support of the Brazilian civil society and has also gather great (but not yet enough) support from legislators. </div><div><br></div><div>Please, find it attached. The first column was the initial public text, the second one IS THE NEW OFFICIAL version and the third one its translation. The text in yellow are some of the core changes...however, they do not mirror what was deleted. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>C</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
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