Brazil ratifies Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
The Brazilian government has ratified the Convention on Cybercrime, signed in Budapest, Hungary. The compact aims to promote international cooperation in the exchange of information on cybercrime and infractions requiring digital evidence stored in other countries.
“[…] The present Convention is necessary to deter action directed against the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems, networks, and computer data as well as the misuse of such systems, networks, and data by providing for the criminalization of such conduct,” the text reads.
Among the offenses listed are the production, distribution, and procurement of child pornography by means of a computer system and copyright infringement as outlined in domestic law. Sanctions apply to both individuals and companies.
Also defined under cybercrime is “the input, alteration, deletion, or suppression of computer data, resulting in inauthentic data with the intent that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if it were authentic, regardless whether or not the data is directly readable and intelligible.”
Following the ratification of the treaty, the Brazilian government must adopt the legislative measures and actions necessary to define as crime in its domestic law “the access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right by infringing security measures, with the intent of obtaining computer data or other dishonest intent, or in relation to a computer system that is connected to another computer system.”
Internet service providers are also required to disclose registration data on subscribers. The document also provides for the extradition of offenders.
