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5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights [UPDATED]

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn amendment narrowed article 8 “Account Registration” so that it applies only to private messaging accounts "exclusively linked to cell phone numbers" (still potentially tremendously confusing in practice); private messaging services are ordered to check with mobile operators which numbers had their contract terminated in order to suspend the related accounts in the app. This provision now excludes social networks.Another amendment cut back on aAll the other parts of the provisions discussed in this post remained intact.---The original article was published&nbsp;on Monday morning, June 29th, 2020.&nbsp;This sprawling bill is moving quickly, and it comes at a very bad time. Right now, secure communication technologies are more important than ever to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, to collaborate and work securely, and to protest or organize online. It’s also really important for people to be able to have private conversations, including private political conversations. There are many things wrong with this bill, far more than we could fit into one article. For now, we’ll do a deep dive into five serious flaws in the existing bill that would undermine privacy, expression and security.Even if the draft text eliminates Article 7, the draft remains dangerous to free expression because authorities will still be allowed to identify users of private messaging services by linking a cell phone number to an account. The Brazilian authorities will have to unmask the identity of the internet user by following domestic procedures for accessing such data from the telecom provider.before anyoneArticles 9 and 11 require broadcast and discussion group sizes in private messaging tools to have a maximum membership limit (something that WhatsApp does today, but that not every communications tool necessarily does or will do), and that the ability to reach mass audiences via private messaging platforms must be strictly limited and controlled, even when those audiences opt in. The vision of the bill seems to be that mass discussion and mass broadcast are inherently dangerous and must only happen in public, and that no one should create forums or media for these interactions to happen in a truly private way, even with clear and explicit consent by the participants or recipients.Article 37 compels large social networks and private messaging apps to appoint legal representatives in Brazil. It also forces those companies to provide remote access to their user databases and logs to their staff in Brazil so the local employees can be directly forced to turn them over.&nbsp;This undermines user security and privacy. It increases the number of employees (and devices) that can access sensitive data and reduces the company's ability to control vulnerabilities and unauthorized access, not least because this is global in scale and, should it be adopted in Brazil, could be replicated by other countries. Each new person and each new device adds a new security risk.&nbsp;Share It, the Brazilian Senate has fast-tracked the approval of “”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. 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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn amendment narrowed article 8 “Account Registration” so that it applies only to private messaging accounts "exclusively linked to cell phone numbers" (still potentially tremendously confusing in practice); private messaging services are ordered to check with mobile operators which numbers had their contract terminated in order to suspend the related accounts in the app. This provision now excludes social networks.Another amendment cut back on aAll the other parts of the provisions discussed in this post remained...

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