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07/09/2013
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Eavesdropping in communication Brazil from organs linked to the U.S. government, as the CIA and the NSA has given the talk and created a tense situation between the two countries. The scandal over the monitoring of private communications of citizens and businesses within and outside the country by the U.S. government came to light after former coach in digital security CIA (intelligence agency americana), Edward Snowden, reveal practice. The data were monitored through the Prism program remained highly classified electronic surveillance by the NSA. A report in the O Globo newspaper this Sunday revealed that the communications of Brazil were among the priority focus tracking.
According Antonio Patriota, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Brazilian government will take initiatives in the United Nations (UN) for the establishment of clear standards of behavior for the countries in the privacy of communications of citizens and the preservation of the sovereignty of other States. The Foreign Ministry also intends to ask the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, the development of multilateral rules on telecommunications security.
Regarding the news related to breach of confidentiality and data communications in the country, Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) reports that established inspection procedure in order to determine whether telecommunications companies headquartered in Brazil violated in some way, the confidentiality of data and telephone communications. The Agency will work in cooperation with the Federal Police and other federal agencies in investigations on the topic, the scope of its duties.
Right secured since 1988
The confidentiality of data and telephone communications is a right guaranteed in the 1988 Constitution, the laws and regulations of the FCC, and its violation is punishable in the civil, criminal and administrative.
According to the lawyer Tercio Sampaio Ferraz, through its website, the constitution says that the inviolability of the confidentiality of data is related to the fundamental right to privacy. At issue is the right of the individual to exclude from the knowledge of others what it is only relevant and respect their way of being unique in the context of his private life.
Source: UOL - Modern Consumer
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