This is a personal blog & archive.
In theory, it's about Law, Technology and Digital Rights. In practice, anything goes.
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Um evento da Associação D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais e a Wikimedia Portugal, com o apoio da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Communia e Comunidade Ubuntu Portugal. Mais informação: - Site da D3 - Wikipédia - Site da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Artigo escrito para o Público a 23 de Setembro de 2018. Publicação original aqui. Desde 2016 que a reforma europeia do direito de autor está a ser discutida na UE e é seguida com muito interesse pelos cidadãos. A consulta pública bateu recordes de participação…
Nova lei dos direitos de autor na internet. Uma questão de censura ou de justiça? O programa está disponível no site da Renascença.
A convite do Prof. José Legatheaux Martins, no âmbito disciplina “Aspectos Socio-Profissionais da Informática", do 4º ano da Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática da FCT/UNL. Slides disponíveis aqui.
April 12th, 2018 15 years of fighting for digital rights. Felt like a newbie among veterans. Nice to know feel the weight of EDRi's past work, it's quite something. Gives you a sense of responsability and increases your own expectations for yourself. But felt like…
This article was published at EDRi-gram.
Please note that this refers strictly to a Portuguese law regarding *intelligence services’ access* to data retention. This is *not* the same case where, following a D3's complaint to the Justice Ombudsman, led to the data retention law in Portugal to be declared unconstitutional in 2022.
A new chapter is expected to soon be written in the long battle between lawmakers and the Constitutional Court in Portugal, regarding the intelligence services’ access to data retention. In January 2018, 35 Members of the Parliament (MP) from three parties officially requested the Constitutional Court to provide a rule on the constitutionality of the new law that grants intelligence services access to retained data.
Note: This is a text I was asked to write, after IGF 2017, in Geneva. Not so surprisingly, it was never published by the organization that asked me for it . It was written around 12 January 2018. Target audience was young people. The Internet…
This is the day zero of my blog. In my mind, it will be a blog about Law and Digital Rights (mostly). It will have posts in English or in Portuguese, depending on the subject. I do love my language, but I also need to…
The USA has recently discovered that we have awful net neutrality practices here in Portugal. Wikipedia's Net Neutrality page in English is even illustrated by the offers of the Portuguese ISP MEO. However, the story being told in the US media is not exactly correct.
Um workshop dedicado à reforma europeia do direito de autor, os seus desafios, perigos e oportunidades, em cooperação com a EDRi, COMMUNIA e Wikimedia. Mais informações aqui.