Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (in Portuguese: Marco Civil da Internet, officially (Federal) Law No 12.965/2014) is the law that governs the use of the

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on April 23, 2014, at the

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History

The project was created by means of a partnership between the

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and the Center for Technology and Society of the Law School at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, at the time directed by professor

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. Both institutions launched on October 29, 2009 the first draft phase of a collaborative process to build the draft for the Marco Civil. The Marco Civil is aimed at protecting privacy rights, net neutrality, safe-harbors for internet service providers and online service providers, open government, and setting forth that access to the internet is a requisite to the exercise for civic rights. The first round of the draft took place between October 29 and December 17, 2009. More than 800 substantive contributions were received, including comments, e-mails, alternative drafts and references. The conception of the Marco Civil was originally created by professor

, in an article published on May 22, 2007. Following the first round of discussions, the draft was published for public comments, throughout a collaborative process. The debates of the second phase took place between April 8 and May 30, 2010. On August 24, 2011, the draft bill was not only approved by the Executive Government in Brazil through the Brazilian Presidency, but also sent to

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by President

, with the support of four Ministries (Justice, Science & Technology, Planning, and

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). In Congress, the draft bill was received and processed under docket number 2126/2011. The Marco Civil was described by the then Ministry of Justice, Luiz Paulo Barreto as "The Constitution of the Internet" in Brazil. The project was scheduled to be voted on several times in November 2012. An English/Portuguese translation, with changes marked in the Portuguese, was published circa November 18, 2013. As a reaction to the allegations of NSA monitoring Brazil's telecoms networks, passing the Marco Civil (which is often called "The Internet Constitution" in Brazil) has become a priority reaction for the Brazilian Government, as affirmed by President Dilma Rousseff during her speech to the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September 24, 2013. An unofficial translation into English was made available by Paulo Rená in March 2014.

Controversy

In 2012 the National Association of Federal Police Chiefs issued a press release arguing the law was unconstitutional.

English Version of the approved Marco Civil

The approved law was translated into English by

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and distributed to all participants of the

. This final version of April 2014 is available a
publicknowledge.org
The

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has also made an English translatio
available

References

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External links

* * . * * * * * {{cite web , url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2015-2018/2018/Lei/L13709.htm , title=Lei 13709 (14/Agosto/2018) Dispõe sobre a proteção de dados pessoais e altera a Lei nº 12.965, de 23 de abril de 2014 (Marco Civil da Internet) / Law 13709 (August 14, 2018) Provides for the protection of personal data and amends Law no. 12.965, of April 23, 2014 (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) (portuguese) , work= Federal government of Brazil , year=2018 Internet in Brazil Net neutrality Digital rights