On April 23, 2014, during the launch of NETMundial, the Global
Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance,
President Dilma Rousseff sanctioned the bill that creates the
Internet Legal Framework. The bill had been debated in the House of
Representatives on the basis of constitutional urgency since
September 2013 and was approved by the Senate without changes. The
bill, designated as Law no. 12,965/14, will come into force in late
June.
The new law affects net neutrality, freedom of speech, the
liability of providers for user-generated content, privacy, and the
retention of logs. Additionally, a number of important aspects of
the law will affect the day-to-day operations not only of companies
based in Brazil or having a subsidiary in the country but also
companies based abroad that deal with Brazilian internet data.
