I have discussed on the past days, mainly with people that don’t are IT experts, the Senator Eduardo Azeredo’s project (see banner at the sidebar of this blog). Most people have difficulty to understand the problem, mainly because they don’t fell that they are affected by it. I therefore decided to find a way, very, very easy to explain the problem.

Just about ten years ago, all the information that I received came to me through TV, magazines, letters or books that I read (not counting the chats and conversations at the phone with friends). Today, virtually all of these things are done over the Internet.

The obligation to “advert the authorities about irregularities on Internet usage”,  as proposed by the law, creates the need for Internet providers to simply monitor all activities that its users perform in the network, to detect “illegal acts” under the law terms.

This is the equivalent to have someone listening to all your telephone conversations, read all your letters to accompany each page of each book or magazine or even text that you read and tracking each and every chat or conversation that you have. It is the real Big Brother Brazil: your digital life will be 100% public without any right to privacy.

In addition to having all its activity mapped for 24 hours a day (as the above analysis, based on your connection point to the Internet, they can also find out where you are and what you’re doing), you still run the risk of have all this information used in inappropriate ways, for example by advertising agencies and other entities that would give everything to know “what matters to this guy …”, not counting the” Where this guy is right now”. Your privacy died …

Anyone who has followed my blog recently must have some idea that my privacy was “that good” over the past months and I tell you: THIS VERY BAD, and, worst of all is that I have no way to prove what I’ve being through !

Without privacy we don’t have freedom, without freedom, we will be one more nation dominated by someone.

If you want to fight cyber crime, take restriction measures to criminals, equip the police with people and resources needed for such investigations but by the love of God, I do not come with this dictatorial solution that states that EVERYONE WILL BE MONITORED !

Defend your freedom, because if it doesn’t matters to you, it may be essential to your child or your grandchild in a few years and has no doubt, YOU WILL BE GUILTY TOO!

Of course we have a good option for the future: we forget all our electronic equipments, leaving the media and electronic means of communication and perhaps join us on self-sustaining communities within the country … but this reminds me much the Hippie movement and are themselves, or their direct descendants, who today are in power, writing laws such as these!

God forbid of ourselves: D