ap comparative brazil privacy

October 4, 2013

Privacy in BrazilMaria Elena GraneraManolo BacaMaria Ernestina Castillo

What does the law state?

✤Federal Brazilian Constitution ensures the right to privacy and a private life, honour and image.

✤Civil code guarantees protection of a private life.

✤There is no data protection law or data protection authority in Brazil.

Dilma Rouseff

✤With the Snowden leaks, Brazil discovered that the United States has over the past years monitored and spied Brazilian internet usage.

✤In UN she urged the right to privacy and proposed solutions.

Solutions Proposed

✤Under water fiber optics cable that connects Brazil and Europe thus bypassing the United States altogether.

✤Force companies such as Google, Microsoft and other American companies to store data for Brazilian users on servers located within Brazil.

Questions to ponder

✤What happens if we assert more control over the supposedly open and free medium which is the internet?

Questions to ponder

✤Can it be done adequately?

Questions to ponder

✤Can countries agree on whether there needs to be some regulation of internet in order to protect privacy and intellectual property?

Questions to ponder

✤If they can agree on these basic principles, can countries move forward to a discussion on how internet usage can and should be monitored?

Questions to ponder✤Because internet transmits data across

countries, can countries agree on how the internet can be monitored in a way that does not hamper private companies and entrepreneurial ideas?