Luca Belli

Luca Belli, PhD, is Professor at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, where he leads the CyberBRICS Project and the Latin American edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. The opinions expressed in his articles are strictly personal.

La mayor filtración de datos personales en la historia de Brasil

El resto del mundo debería preocuparse y reflexionar sobre cómo crear una cultura de protección de datos.

By Luca Belli

/ 12 Feb 2021

Imagen de archivadores antiguos, con uno abierto justo al centro

O maior vazamento de dados pessoais da história do Brasil

Por que o resto do mundo deveria se preocupar e pensar seriamente sobre como criar uma cultura de proteção de dados

By Luca Belli

/ 11 Feb 2021

O maior vazamento de dados pessoais da história do Brasil

The largest personal data leakage in Brazilian history

Why the rest of the world should be worried, and think hard about how to create a data protection culture.

By Luca Belli

/ 3 Feb 2021

BRICS countries to build digital sovereignty

The push towards digital sovereignty is frequently criticized as a Trojan horse for authoritarian measures. It's tremendously naïve to think it the only explanation.

By Luca Belli

/ 18 Nov 2019

BRICS countries to build digital sovereignty

The scramble for data and the need for network self-determination

The scramble for data is unleashing a new form of colonialism: turning a quintessentially open internet into a series of closed, controllable cyber-spaces, where a few players have unprecedented influence.

By Luca Belli

/ 15 Dec 2017

Scrapping FCC net neutrality rules would be a mistake

Repealing net neutrality would result in the de facto concentration of internet control of revenue from accessible services into the hands of certain gatekeepers, undermining the open architecture that allows the free exchange of ideas.

By Luca Belli

/ 30 Nov 2017

European net neutrality, at last?

Article 3 of the Regulation defined the legal foundations of net neutrality in the EU, including the operators' obligation to "treat all traffic equally."

By Luca Belli and Christopher T. Marsden

/ 4 Oct 2016