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[Katitza Rodriguez Pereda]

Dear Carlos, Milton, all:

I will work in my report of the meeting today or early tomorrow as  
maximum.
In the meantime, regarding cybercrime discussion in Brazil: Azeredo  
Bill of Law, et all

A good English articles could be found here:

"Access versus surveillance: Brazilian cybercrime law project"
http://icommons.org/articles/access-versus-surveillance-brazilian-cybercrime-law-project

"Censura Não!: Brazilian Bloggers Protest New Cybercrime Bill"
http://opennet.net/blog/2008/07/censura-n%C3%A3o-brazilian-bloggers-protest-new-cybercrime-bill

"Legislators urged to oppose cyber-crime bill likely to threaten  
online free expression"
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27917


Best, Katitza


On May 19, 2009, at 4:39 AM, McTim wrote:

> 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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