[NCUC-DISCUSS] Panama Papers - privacy, data and media manipulation - Re: Information Internet

[romina florencia Cabrera]

Thank you Renata!!! Best regards.

2016-04-10 8:20 GMT-03:00 Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I`m also adding some links to this one shared about the Panama Papers,
> more especifically
>
> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/the-largest-in-history-filtration-of-journalism
>
> Unfortunately, the links I have are only in Spanish but, I wil try to sum
> it up in English:
>
> So Panama Papers was an event in which journalists from ICIJ had access to
> the Panamenian law firm Mossack and Fonseca papers
> Offshore companies in Panama and corruption cases were scrutinized and
> scandals have snowballed to consequences some may have been following
> (politicians resignation etc.)
>
> Interesting to NCs are the debates about privacy, data and countries laws
> on these matters
>
> Panamenian lawyers in the South School of Internet Governance in OAS are
> saying that their country is being unfairly accused of being a tax haven
> and a place where there are no privacy/data laws. Some of the papers were
> protected by attorney-client privilege and alleged innocents have already
> been targeted unlawfully. They imply that EU and US pressure Panama in
> increasing taxes and data surveillance of international companies and they
> resist, because they want to follow their own law. Reuters than put up an
> article saying that there are 22000 laywers in Panama and they say that
> this is the number of every graduate in Law that ever lived there (so
> deceased and those who moved are in those stats) - and this would be an
> effort to discredit their laws once more.
>
> Also ICIJ curated the Panama Papers leak so there is material which has
> not been addressed. This lead to a controversy when ICIJ said that they are
> "not Wikileaks" so they have filtered the material shared online. Julian
> Assange entered the debate pointing out that all data should have been made
> available (once more pointing their difference to Wikileaks) and alerting
> to media manipulation/cherry picking (including an assertion on Google
> search results being manipulated since it controls 80% of online
> advertisement)
>
> Now lawyers and journalists in LAC are trying to sort out each country
> data protection laws to see what they can get and what can be shared and
> what can not. So the ripple effect is quite interesting.
>
>
> http://www.infolibre.es/noticias/mundo/2016/04/07/assange_denuncia_manipulacion_los_medios_atribuye_nacimiento_podemos_internet_47562_1022.html
>
>
> https://elrobotpescador.com/2016/04/06/no-te-dejes-enganar-este-es-el-objetivo-final-de-los-papeles-de-panama/
>
> http://eju.tv/2016/04/panama-un-pais-hecho-por-y-para-los-abogados/
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156716561595364&set=a.10150317711360364.566330.752165363
> (manifesto being shared by Panamenians)
>
> Some info I brought also from SSIG mobile messaging group
>
> Best
>
> Renata
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:34 PM, romina florencia Cabrera <
> romicabrera83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear, I share this information sent to me from a group of the OAS; I
>> hope to serve the group and the translation is correct. Greetings.
>>
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>> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/?showAddContent=1&xg_source=msg_wel_network
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