Favorite The mandatory retention of metadata is an evergreen of European digital policy. Despite a number of rulings by Europe’s highest court, confirming again and again the incompatibility of general and indiscriminate data retention mandates with European fundamental rights, the European Commission is taking major steps towards the re-introduction of EU-wide data retention mandates. Recently,…
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FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security
Favorite Despite widespread complaints about its effects on human rights, the Brazilian Senate has fast-tracked the approval of “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. The bill lacked the necessarily broad and intense social participation that characterized the development of the 2014 Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet and is now in the Chamber…
5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights
Favorite The Brazilian Senate is scheduled to make its vote this week on the most recent version of “PLS 2630/2020” the so-called “Fake News” bill. This new version, supposedly aimed at safety and curbing “malicious coordinated actions” by users of social networks and private messaging apps, will allow the government to identify and track countless…
Data Brokers: Don’t Let Your Data be Used For Human Rights Abuses
Favorite EFF, Amnesty International, Color of Change, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and our other coalition partners are urging data brokers to take a stand against government surveillance and discrimination based on religion, national origin, and immigration status. As explained in a joint statement released today, data brokers collect and analyze huge amounts of…
La triste historia del Perú con la vigilancia, y cómo solucionarla
Favorite Este post forma parte de la serie “Ojos que no parpadean: El Estado de la Vigilancia de las comunicaciones en América Latina“, un proyecto elaborado en colaboración con organizaciones de Derechos Digitales en América Latina, que documenta y analiza las leyes y prácticas de vigilancia en doce países: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, el Salvador,…
Peru’s Unhappy History with Surveillance, and How To Fix It
Favorite This post is part of the series “Unblinking Eyes: The State of Communications Surveillance in Latin America,” a collaborative project conducted with digital rights partners in Latin America, which documents and analyzes surveillance laws and practices in twelve countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Uruguay. In…
The Global Ambitions of Pakistan’s New Cyber-Crime Act
Favorite Despite near universal condemnation from Pakistan’s tech experts; despite the efforts of a determined coalition of activists, and despite numerous attempts by alarmed politicians to patch its many flaws, Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) last week passed into law. Its passage ends an eighteen month long battle between Pakistan’s government, who saw…
Russia Asks For The Impossible With Its New Surveillance Laws
Favorite It’s been a rough month for Internet freedom in Russia. After it breezed through the Duma, President Putin signed the “Yarovaya package” into law—a set of radical “anti-terrorism” provisions drafted by ultra-conservative United Russia politician Irina Yarovaya, together with a set of instructions on how to implement the new rules. Russia’s new surveillance laws…
Pakistan’s Senate Gets Smart About Terrible Cyber-Crime Bill
Favorite Over the last few months, Pakistan’s Internet community has been fighting to stop the passage of one of the world’s worst cyber-crime proposals: the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB). Thanks in part to the hundreds of messages sent to Pakistan’s senators, they secured a major victory this week—public assurances from key members of…
La Suprema Corte de México no frena la retención de datos, pero activistas llevarán el caso a Corte internacional
Favorite En una decisión decepcionante, la segunda sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) rechazó la impugnación a los mandatos de retención de datos establecidos por la Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Ley Telecom o LFTR) y la carencia de salvaguardas legales. El amparo -un recurso a disposición de cualquier persona cuyos…