Communication access advocates worried about Brazil blocking internet access:
Brazil has gone to extreme measures to monitor the Olympics, employing the use of its Simera surveillance system, which uses a series of cameras attached to balloons to monitor events across the Rio metro.
“We can’t predict the likelihood of it happening, only that the conditions are especially ripe for a shutdown: widespread protests, new surveillance tech, and the recent shutdown of WhatsApp in a criminal investigation for the third time,” an Access Now employee told the Daily Dot, citing the most recent case of the encrypted messaging app being suspended in Brazil.
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Source: dailydot.com
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Source: accessnow.org