Brazil, US To Resume Joint Working Group on Internet, ICT
Brazil and the U.S. said they will resume their joint Working Group on Internet and Information and Communication Technologies, with the group set to hold its second-ever meeting this fall in Brasilia. The group held its first meeting in July…
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2012 and disbanded after the start of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks about controversial NSA surveillance programs, an industry lawyer told us. Brazil later enacted a law strengthening Internet privacy policies due to the “anger and repudiation” of the NSA surveillance programs (see report in the April 24, 2014, issue). The restart of the U.S.-Brazil working group “will offer the opportunity of exchanging experiences and exploring possibilities for cooperation in a number of key areas, including e-government, the digital economy, cybersecurity, cybercrime prevention, capacity building activities, international security in cyberspace, and research, development, and innovation,” said President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in a joint statement Tuesday. Rousseff has been in Washington this week to meet on U.S.-Brazil relations. The countries reaffirmed their commitment to “cooperate for the success” of the next Internet Governance Forum Nov. 10-13 in João Pessoa, Brazil, and said they will participate actively in the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting on the 10-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society outcomes in December.