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Brazil: Who is behind the ‘Cybercrimes Bill'?

Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 18:57 UTC

by Daniel Duende

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Internet & Telecoms, Law, Politics
Languages:: Portuguese

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pt:: Brasil: Quem está por trás da Lei de Cibercrimes?...

Blog do Tião writes [Pt] about the companies and political groups behind Eduardo Azeredo, the Brazilian Senator that proposed a controversial Cybercrimes Bill that's being largely discussed in the Brazilian Blogosphere. The same post presents data that links Azeredo to some recently uncovered corruption schemes in the country. This link was provided by Luma, from the Luz de Luma [Pt] blog.

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