{"id":68725,"date":"2024-06-22T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68725"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:48:16","slug":"brazils-supreme-court-is-hiring-contractors-to-monitor-social-media-and-track-dissenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68725","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Brazil\u2019s Federal Supreme Court (STF) has turned to contractors to keep an eye on social media and smoke out main critics \u2013 including by identifying them, and their location.<\/p>\n

Other judicial institutions that are said to have contracts of a similar nature are the Superior Court of Justice, the Superior Labor Court, the\u00a0Superior Electoral Court<\/a>, and the National Council of Justice.<\/p>\n

Reports out of Brazil about the contracting of outside entities to perform online surveillance is based on\u00a0a public call for bids<\/a>\u00a0(the closing date was June 14), where STF looked to hire a company that will monitor, in real-time, what\u2019s referred to as \u201cthe digital presence of the Federal Supreme Court\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n

The contractor will also have to provide alerts via instant messages, daily, weekly, and monthly \u2013 both quantitative and qualitative \u2013 analytical reports, as well as \u201coccasional bulletins and preparation of a monthly action plan strategy for acting on social networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is yet another move by the country\u2019s judiciary branch (the Superior Electoral Court\u2019s activities offer more examples) that tests the boundaries of its powers. And, it\u2019s a move that is explained as the need to protect democracy from \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t stop there, as the Supreme Court\u2019s lengthy investigations would at times cover not only \u201cfake\u201d but also real news \u2013 the kind that, in one example, exposed a former justice as having links with a company accused of corruption.<\/p>\n

Contractors will now not only carry out \u201ccontinuous monitoring\u201d of social platforms (in search for \u201cmain detractors\u201d), but also propose to the Court how it may \u201cimprove communication\u201d with citizens.<\/p>\n

In the past, Supreme Court justices and even a prosecutor general launched legal battles against people because of their online speech, but when these officials were allied with former President Balsonaro…<\/p>\n

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Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters Brazil\u2019s Federal Supreme Court (STF) has turned to contractors to keep an eye on social media and smoke out main critics \u2013 including by identifying them, and their location. Other judicial institutions that are said to have contracts of a similar nature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,120,33879,5570,1426,26071,33878,1169,8325,765],"class_list":["post-68725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brazil","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-misinformation","tag-narrative-management","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-social-media","tag-supreme-court","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68726,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68725\/revisions\/68726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}