Marco Civil da Internet (Law 12.965/2014)
termgovernance & riskprivacy
Brazil's framework law for internet rights and duties, enacted in 2014: it establishes network neutrality, privacy and freedom of expression as principles, sets data-retention obligations for connection and application providers, and conditions the removal of content on a court order in most cases.
It was drafted through an unusually open public consultation and was internationally notable for putting user rights before intermediary obligations - a deliberate contrast with laws written primarily to enable takedowns. For practitioners the operative parts are the retention periods, the rules on producing logs, and the liability regime that determines when a platform must act. Its intermediary-liability provisions have been repeatedly litigated, and the balance it struck is under continuous political pressure.
Also known as: lei 12.965, internet bill of rights, brazilian internet framework