My Rightscon Rio Live Blog Day 1: Conclusion

[Disclaimer: The views and errors here are my own and do not represent anyone else, for one thing, they're likely 20% snarkier.]

Access Innovation Prize announced, focusing on gaps in human rights space

1: Blackout resilience - $25K for best blackout resilience tech.
2: Crypto - Proper integration into existing sys., encrypt. edu., or building community for use by default
3: Bounty for best patch of known/unknown platform used by activists
4: Golden jellybean - Other really cool things.  Great training program/research idea/censorship circumvention = $20K
5: Access Facebook award - Best idea to promote human rights/development on Facebook

App. process starts now and goes until August 15th.  Looking for things that are impactful, idea that has real impact for real life people and will likely turn into something real.  Also cool stuff that's new, but grounded and is measurable/sustainable.

Putting together judging panel, includes McLaughlin, for Facebook award, rep. from Facebook will come up.
*biting my tongue here on how sincere about privacy*  Brett says can also apply ideas to change Facebook platform (stop real name policies much??!!)
This is not government money (thank God/the Interwebz/Science)

And now, some info on party after conference (addresses were given, we had some lime cocktails that were the best booze I've ever had.  Yes, I'm slightly drunk while editing these notes. Don't do that, boys and girls.  Drink school, stay in drugs, and don't do milk.)

Some background on FGV, pretty much Brazil's Berkman Center/Gipi

Thoughts on regulation of Internet in Brazil.  Today no laws that regulate it today.  So people think "OK, no rules, we're free!", well instead it means many problems due to fact that there is no legislation.  One problem is proliferation of lawsuits.  One judge starts taking one decision, and other judges take other side, there's no precedent yet, Supreme Court puts out contradictory rulings.  Youtube was taken off air for a few days due to lawsuit.  Caused by "intimate conversation" involving Brazilian celebrity in Spain, vid was totally removed, Youtube was taken off air for a few days.
Lawsuits against bloggers also common, blogger got comment posted and was sued for it, no clear standard.

Data requests and content removal also a problem.  Google transparency report, Brazil is world leader in data requests coming from government bodies, above U.S.  China we don't know since they didn't provide the data.

Some years ago there was a child protection commission built to hinder and punish pedophilia.

Cybercrime commission: "azeredo law" vaguely worded law that would criminalize jailbreaking phones (4 years in jail!).  You don't wanna spend 4 years in a Brazilian jail.  After 1st vote in Senate, huge backlash which led to broader discussion.  There was a petition with tons of signatures, and before this there was talk of an Internet Bill of Rights.
Origin here is idea of protecting rights instead of direction of criminalizing.  So civil framework is collaborative law, made in very transparent way through the Internet ("consent of the networked' and all that jazz), so here Minister of Justice was present for deliberations on this. 
Key provisions were
1. Privacy
2. Limits to data retention
3. Rights of Access
4. Intermediaries' liability
5. spam
6. spam
7. spam (not a fast typer)

Lots of comments were processed, took almost a year.  This all went like Icelandic constitution.

Had some repercussions in Eur. Parliament, France, Germany, model is being used in other legislative initiatives (damn, can you even imagine Amer. politics working like this?)

Congress will vote on the "Marco Civil" (Internet Bill of Rights) hopefully in the next few weeks.

Next speaker: Sorry, I have something else on my mind.

We also don't want to be researched without our knowing about it, this is in executive protection, but we want to detail it more.   Second point is about net neutrality, we want to learn from other countries experiences and detail what neutrality is all about, we need a regulation that doesn't unconsciously impact that netutrality...out of power.  I've been running on adrenaline and caffeine all day(s).  All I can do now is listen.

Still bugging me is McLaughlin's reasoning, I'm a little uncertain about exact terms:

Internet is democratizing and decentralizing access to information
Information is power
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Internet is democratizing and decentralizing access to power

(In the unlikely event you're reading this, Mr. McLaughlin, feel free to critique)

Simple, Discrete Math inductive logic.  I forget the name of the inference used.  Will come back to this later.  We're done, now cocktail party.