¿Monitor the Internet? The senator of the Green Party, María del Rocío Corona Nakamura presented a reform proposal through which it intends to take care of national security.
In accordance with the provisions of the proposal of the Green Party legislator, if the reform to the National Security Lawlos cyber attacks may be declared as a threat.
However, the initiative of María del Rocío Corona Nakamura has unleashed a wave of criticism warning that the approach could imply that monitor the internet.
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Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura proposes reform to monitor the internet?
The senator who is a member of the Green Party bench, María del Rocío Corona Nakamurapresented a reform proposal to take care of national security which has generated various criticisms.
The foregoing is due to the fact that in the initiative, the legislator proposes adding a paragraph to article 5 of the National Security Law to declare the cyber attacks as a threat.
In this paragraph it is indicated that you could chase everything “illicit activity committed through the use of electronic, digital, technological means, communication or computer networks.”
Therefore, speculation has begun about the possibility that the authorities start doing actions like digital communications intervention with a judicial authorization.
That is to say, it has been interpreted that the proposal presented by Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura would propose that mechanisms are put in place to power monitor the internet.
In the same way, before the ambiguity of the concept “illicit activity”also warns of alleged risks of carrying out excessive interpretations by the activity of Internet users.
In that sense, social media users who have spoken out against the proposal indicate that even minor actions by Internet users they would be persecuted by the authorities.
Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura warns that information technologies pose new security risks
In the reform proposal that would open the possibility of monitor the internetthe Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura defended the intervention of the authorities in digital activities.
Regarding this, the senator pointed out in her explanatory statement that although the information technologies They are an essential tool, they are also used for malicious purposes.
He warned this when asserting that new technologies can be used as mechanisms to generate risks and threats to public safetyto peace and social order.
In that sense, he pointed out that it has even given way to a new genre of crime which is executed through digital and electronic media, given the context of the globalization of the digital ecosystem.
Despite recognizing that Internet access is a consolidated right At the constitutional level, he warned that this does not imply that the users of the technologies may cause damage of the common well-being.
On the contrary, the senator stated in her proposal that the right implies the obligation of using the Internet and derived tools, as an “alternative conflict resolution mechanism.”
Due to such approaches, Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura proposed adding a paragraph to article 5 of the National Security Law to monitor the internet?
“With the innovation of technologies, crimes have also adapted to these new tools, causing serious problems due to their little regulation (…) We are facing a digital revolution and crime that has brought several problems for security, which has made the task of safeguarding legal operators difficult”
Proposal by Senator María del Rocío Corona Nakamura
2024-10-05 17:01:19