(courtesy of marataizes.com.br)
As it’s become gravely clear over time, the Internet is hardly a bastion of liberty.
The NSA has proved that no one’s web excursions are completely safe from prying eyes.
Not even global leaders. Just ask Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, whose private emails were targeted by the spy agency last year.
That may be why Rousseff is fueling the effort to make Brazil the first nation with its own Internet Bill of Rights.
An admirable effort, for sure. But other nations might not have such impetus to protect the privacy of their webizens.
And it hardly stands to reason that the US will renege on its own surveillance programs just like that—or anytime soon.
So, will this really prove a boon in online freedom?
