Spying on Rousseff Has Brazil Leading Internet Road Map
By Anna Edgerton Apr 23, 2014 12:34 PM ET
As spying disclosures lead to questions about U.S. stewardship of the Internet, Brazil is trying to steer a new direction of governance for a technology responsible for one-fifth of the developed world’s economic growth over the past five years.
Representatives from Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and dozens of other companies, governments and universities are meeting in Sao Paulo today to chart a road map for how the Internet should be managed and what level of privacy should be guaranteed. It’s the first such gathering since the U.S. was accused of intercepting communications from world leaders including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil’s template for the world: an Internet-rights bill known as Marco Civil which Rousseff signed into law during the opening session of the conference. The legislation is welcomed by companies because it protects intermediaries like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. (FB) from liability for content on their websites, and it defends user rights like free expression that are essential to Internet business models.
Marco Civil is an “exclamation point” for this week’s NETMundial conference, which is an important discussion “about how we should behave in this Internet environment, how businesses should behave, and how people should behave,” Vinton Cerf, a creator of the Internet’s communication language who is now chief Internet evangelist for Google, said in an interview.
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