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

[Fouad Bajwa]

I am at the WSIS Forum in Geneva at the moment and the ITU presented
this as its move on Global Cyber Crime and Terrorism

Impact (The International Multilateral Partnership Against
Cyber-Terrorism) is a coalition of twenty-six countries that have
united to form a global cyber-security group.
http://www.impact-alliance.org/

You will all be amazed that you can only participate if you are a ITU
Member Country


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Katitza Rodriguez Pereda
<katitza at datos-personales.org> wrote:
> 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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