<div dir="ltr">Carlos,<div><br></div><div>It is particularly disturbing to see the condition to use mobile telephony as an element for registering and authenticating users. It attempts to get the State to accord undue importance to an industrial sector.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy/" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a></div><div><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" target="_blank">6.Internet@gmail.com</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://twitter.com/shivaindia" target="_blank">twitter.com/shivaindia</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 12:45 AM Carlos Afonso via Governance <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Dear people, as some of you probably know, the Brazilian
Congress is discussing a crucial bill of law on fake news. A
version of the bill has been approved by the Senate (where the
proposal originated) and is now under discussion in the Chamber of
Deputies. Below is a precise review of the situation, by the
Brazilian chapter of the Internet Society).<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">The text refers to the statement on the bill of law
published by the Brazilian chapter, which can be read here in
Portuguese and English:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://isoc.org.br/noticia/capitulos-da-isoc-apoiam-nota-tecnica-da-isoc-brasil-contra-o-pl-das-fake-news" target="_blank">https://isoc.org.br/noticia/capitulos-da-isoc-apoiam-nota-tecnica-da-isoc-brasil-contra-o-pl-das-fake-news</a><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">fraternal regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">--c.a.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">=============================<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">This is a brief report on the recent developments in the
Brazilian Congress regarding the Bill on Fake News. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Despite strong opposition from civil society organizations
and tech companies, which asked for a postponing of the voting so
that a more informed discussion could take place, the Bill has
been voted and approved by the Senate on June 30. Voting result
was 45 in favor, 32 against the Bill (1 abstention + the
President), from a total of 89 senators.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">The Bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where
it can be amended or even rejected. If amended, it must come back
to the Senate for another round of discussion and voting. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Forecast is that it might take up to 3
months for the matter to return to the Senate. <b>But recent press coverage
indicates that things might be expedited in the House in a
response to Bolsonaro's announced willingness to veto some
parts of the project that might affect "freedom of expression"<u>.</u></b>
</span>If finally approved by the Senate, it must be sanctioned by
the President, who can interpose his veto to specific parts of the
text. So we still have many opportunities to fight for a much
better version of the Bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal">Some
important highlights on the version that has been approved, both
positive and negative ones:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span><span><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"> </p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">End-to-end encryption was
recognized as legal. But traceability through "forwarding
metadata" was kept, and this </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">was </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">the
hardest fight so far. Several organizations are threatening to
take the matter to the Supreme Court, because of the threat to
privacy.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Facial recognition was not
inserted as means to identify users</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (as promised by the Rapporteur the
weekend before the vote)</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.
Providers are required to develop measures to "identify users"
accused of "inauthentic behavior". Collection of phone number</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">s</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> is
not mandatory anymore. The Bill now states that "those apps
that rely on phone numbers to function are obliged to suspend
services to those phone lines that are cancelled by the
operator". </span></li>
<li>A last-minute c<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">opyright </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">rule</span> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">was
suppressed from the Bill</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> in
the final round of deliberations</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Data localization was suppressed
from the Bill. A CLOUD Act-</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">inspired</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">rule was adopted to oblige companies
to provide access from Brazil to data stored abroad.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Mandatory arbitration for Terms of
Service was suppressed.<b>
</b>The Intermediary Liability regime from the “Marco Civil”
stands untouched. But complicated rules related to
authorization for providers to remove content immediately
remain, in cases of "harmful consequences, information
security or user security, threats to the functionality of the
service, hate speech, child pornography, support to suicide
and self-mutilation", "defamation and slander" against
politicians, trademarks, individuals and legal entities, as
well as "content that lead to error or confusion, including
through deep fakes" (which is very broad). There is a need to
ensure that all those reached by the content are also reached
by a 'right of reply' in cases of defamation and slander.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The issue of TCP/IP ports in
CG-NATed connections still remains.</span></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We thank the support from other Chapters
to the statements we published. They were collected </span><a href="https://isoc.org.br/noticia/capitulos-da-isoc-apoiam-nota-tecnica-da-isoc-brasil-contra-o-pl-das-fake-news" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> and also resonated on Twitter.</span></p>
<p> for ISOC-BR</p>
<p>Flavio Wagner, chair</p>
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