[governance] China: "we don't agree that the IGF should

[McTim]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:13 AM, carlos a. afonso <ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
> MM, there is a lot of material, unfortunately mostly in Portuguese. And
> there is a strong mobilization against the bill of law (called the
> Azeredo Bill of Law, after the name of the senator who, lobbied by the
> big banks, is pushing it through Congress). The minister of Justice has
> made a strong statement against the bill as it stands now, but most of
> Congress have no idea what the senator is talking about and will
> probably vote in favor if he or she is from an opposition party.
>
> For further info in English, try:
>
> http://ubisurv.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/internet-surveillance-in-brazil/
>
> http://ubisurv.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/internet-surveillance-in-brazil-2/
>
> http://0fx66.com/blog/en/internet/ato-contra-o-ai-5-digital/
>
> The law is especially pernicious in the case of free access services
> (like free wireless networks, community telecenters etc etc). Thousands
> of free access services would have to start doing logs and register
> personal ID data on users -- and this is were the bill is at its worst.
> Children would be required to identify themselves with formal documents
> in order to use a terminal in a community telecenter and so on. The bill
> also requires that content providers identify and record visitors !! The
> funny thing is that most of the content services considered are in
> foreign servers, far from the reach of Azeredo's claws!!
>
> It will mean a brutal violation of privacy and freedom of expression,
> and an incredible burden to all kinds of Internet services' operators.
>

We have the same kind of "all yourpackets are belong to us us" law
proposed in UG   You can Google up "Interception of telecommunications
act uganda".

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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