Creation and establishment of principles that promote and enable the various actors involved to use the Internet properly.
Published in Chapter:
The Gatekeepers of Cyberspace: Surveillance, Control, and Internet Regulation in Brazil
Elisianne Campos de Melo Soares (Media and Journalism Investigation Centre, Portugal & Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6324-4.ch023
Abstract
Cyberspace, like the territories grounded in the physical world, is an environment subject to border control and surveillance for various purposes: governmental, economic, security, among others. As in the physical sphere, governance can serve to enforce rules to avoid abuses and to allow users and institutions to build effective relationships, transparent and harmonious. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in Brazil (“Marco Civil da Internet”), a project created in 2009 that aims to establish rights and obligations for the operation of the network in this Latin American nation. Before that, however, it is critical to address the issue of control and surveillance on the Internet, revealing their motivations, goals, and work tools.