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FIRST DATA THEFT AFTER MARCO CIVIL INTERNET BILL HAS PASSED: POLICE ATTACK TO PRIVACY MAY OCCUR AFTER NETMUNDIAL'S EVENT
Due to a lawsuit running in secrecy of Justice against Radio Muda, the oldest independent radio station working in Brazil, Saravá's main server is settled to be confiscated this next Monday, April 28th, at 1:00 PM (Local time, GTM-3h).

Radio Muda has had its equipment confiscated once before in Februrary 24th of this year[1]. As the litigation went on, Prosecuting Attorney Edilson Vitorelli Diniz Lima from the Public Prosecutor's Office , signed a request for the server aiming for the radio's site data that might identify it's members.

Sarava's sever is located at the State University of Campinas - Unicamp, and hosts the radiolivre.org plataform, including Radio Muda's website, it also hosts many different research projects related to Unicamp and other public Brazilian universities.

Sarava is a research group that for the past 10 years have offered technological infrastructure, political thinking and autonomous and secure communication sources freely to research groups and social movements [2]. In 2008, one of its servers has been confiscasted and it hasn't been returned since [3].

Just now, as the Marco Civil Internet Bill has passed[4], and as Brazil's hosting a World International Internet Meeting and is trying to pass on the idea of being the one holding country that holds the state-of-the-art legislation towards internets privacy, freedom and security, we face once more an attempt of data theft, undermining the privacy of research projects and the free acess to information, with the closure of discussion lists, sites and other tools.

We say the decision of breaking the confidentiality of our communication following the Public Prosecutor's Office lawsuit is disproportionate . Afterall, the server has no record that could identify its users as part of its Privacy Politics[5].

We ask for solidarity from all groups, individuals and institutions that fight for a free society and internet. Next monday, April 28th at 1:00 PM (Local time, GTM-3h), there will be a demonstration in front of the Data Processing Center from the Filosophy and Humanities Institute building at Unicamp, all support will be welcomed.
Our hatred towards this act will be shown throughout social networks and messages to Public Prosecutor's Office all over the internet. Hashtags:
#SaravaLivre, #netmundial1984, #sarava, #privacidade, #OurNetMundial,
#marcocivildainternet

We demand the immediate interruption of police's attempts against Saravá's Group server and its users data.

[1] http://intervozes.org.br/fechamento-da-radio-muda-e-mais-um-atentado-con...
[2] Saravá's Principles: https://www.sarava.org/pt-br/principios
[3] Saravá's hijack in 2008: https://www.sarava.org/en/node/46
[4] Law nº 12.965, from April 23th, 2014, free translation available at https://thecdd.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/marco-civil-da-internet-unoffici... (original at http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei/l12965.htm)
[5] https://www.sarava.org/pt-br/privacidade

Source: https://www.sarava.org/en/node/104