Wednesday, September 02, 2020

MIT Technology Review: Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism

The MIT Technology Review is sliding deeper into leftist nonsense!



Europe's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a monster and overkill of legislation!

Leftist, corrupt and impeached former Brazilian president Rousseff is celebrated without mentioning a word etc.

However, the new Brazilian president Bolsonaro is portrayed as a dangerous fascist!



"For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a multi-stakeholder body to help the country set principles for internet governance. In 2014, Dilma Rousseff’s government pioneered the Marco Civil (Civil Framework), an internet “bill of rights” lauded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Four years later, Brazil’s congress passed a data protection law, the LGPD, closely modeled on Europe’s GDPR. 



Recently, though, the country has veered down a more authoritarian path. ..."



Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism (MIT Technology Review. The Download 9/3/2020)

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