Javier Pallero

La autoridad reguladora de las telecomunicaciones de India anunció hoy nuevas normas referidas a la neutralidad de la red y a los programas de tasa cero, conocidos también como de «zero rating».

The block is the latest in a string of internet shutdowns in 2015 and shows worrying backsliding in Brazil on digital rights.

The revolutionary legislation that served as a model for digital rights regulation globally is now in danger. Here is how some foreign ideas risk breaking the Marco Civil.

On July 27, 2015, Ollanta Humala, President of Peru, issued a decree granting the national police the power to access the geo-location data of any device in the country without a warrant, as well as requiring companies to store users’ communications metadata for three years. Now, the Peruvian congress has to decide whether it will ratify the policy.

Access has published research, undertaken in partnership with the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade de Brasil, to address the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency (Anatel)’s plan to block unregistered cell phones in Brazil.

This afternoon, the Paraguayan Senate voted against a bill that would have mandated internet service providers (ISPs) to store internet communications metadata for one year, thus rejecting the “Pyrawebs” initiative for good.

The Paraguayan Senate will vote this week on the data retention bill known as #Pyrawebs. Despite the fact that the bill was previously rejected by the House of Representatives in March after heavy criticism, its proponents are pushing ahead with this privacy-curtailing piece of legislation. | El Senado paraguayo tratará esta semana la iniciativa de retención de datos de tráfico de internet, conocida como #Pyrawebs. Tras el rechazo en la Cámara de Diputados a causa de un amplio descontento social, los senadores proyectistas insisten con un proyecto que viola la privacidad y daña la libre expresión.

Facebook has published “myths and facts” about Internet.org in an attempt to address the growing concerns that digital rights defenders have about the program. But its “demythification” attempt falls short.

Facebook’s expansion into Latin America with its Internet.org program undermines Net Neutrality and raises troubling questions about development and the internet.

Almost a year after the approval of Brazil’s landmark Marco Civil da Internet, the government is seeking public comments on how best to implement the legislation. Access submitted a brief on zero rating, a dangerous practice that threatens to undermine the open internet in the country.