<div dir="ltr">Dear friends, <div><br></div><div>as some of you may already know, the Brazilian house of representatives came up with a dangerous report recommending the adoption of 8 new cybercrime bills, 7 of which include dangerous provisions for digital rights in Brazil.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">Brazilian activists present at RightsCon wrote this statement and are looking for support from international civil society to raise awareness on this issue and ask the house of representatives to drop this awful provisions. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b>The deadline to sign is Wednesday April 6 (tomorrow) at 6 PM Brazil time (UTC -3)</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b>Please support our friends there! </b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><ul><li>The letter (signatures updated on a rolling basis): <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/joint-statement-brazil-cybercrime/">https://www.accessnow.org/joint-statement-brazil-cybercrime/</a> </li></ul><div><b>More resources</b></div><ul><li>ITS Rio de Janeiro initial report <a href="https://medium.com/@ITSriodejaneiro/politicians-want-to-censor-the-internet-in-brazil-with-the-excuse-of-fighting-cyber-crime-e9d47e4a571c">https://medium.com/@ITSriodejaneiro/politicians-want-to-censor-the-internet-in-brazil-with-the-excuse-of-fighting-cyber-crime-e9d47e4a571c</a></li><li>Andrew McLaughlin's post (with arguments to engage companies and startups) <a href="https://medium.com/@mcandrew/brazil-s-internet-is-under-legislative-attack-1416d94db3cb#.e8hcn6et9">https://medium.com/@mcandrew/brazil-s-internet-is-under-legislative-attack-1416d94db3cb#.e8hcn6et9</a></li><li>Emergency session in RightsCon (video) <a href="https://youtu.be/HapGYuLzy10">https://youtu.be/HapGYuLzy10</a></li><li>Expressions of concern from the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee <a href="http://www.cgi.br/esclarecimento/clarification-note-regarding-the-report-released-by-the-brazilian-parliamentary-commission-of-inquiry-on-cybercrime/">http://www.cgi.br/esclarecimento/clarification-note-regarding-the-report-released-by-the-brazilian-parliamentary-commission-of-inquiry-on-cybercrime/</a></li><li>Technical analysis and recommendations from Coding Rights and IBIDEM (thorough and detailed! In portuguese) <a href="https://cpiciber.codingrights.org/">https://cpiciber.codingrights.org/</a></li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">---</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000" size="2">Javier Pallero</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial">Policy Analyst / Analista de Politicas</font></font><br><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000">Access Now | </font><a href="http://accessnow.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">accessnow.org</a></font></span></font><br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="font-family:arial">PGP </span><font face="arial">0xEBFD028A</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="arial">Fingerprint 0503 FBA1 10B2 B83C 61FC FE3B 4E7E EBDD EBFD 028A</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i style="font-size:12.8px">Participe de RightsCon Silicon Valley, del 30 de Marzo al 1 de Abril de 2016: <a href="https://www.rightscon.org/" target="_blank">rightscon.org</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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