The InternetLab team conducted a series of interviews with international experts on current and relevant topics in the internet policy agenda. The goal was to provide inputs for these discussions, promote debate, and create conditions for further development in this research field in Brazil.

The first interviewee was Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School and director of the Center for Internet and Society at the same institution. She is one of the leading experts on global net neutrality and a reference in the debate on public policies and control of network architectures.

We also spoke with Prof. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, about mandatory data retention – legal obligations to store telecommunications metadata for investigative purposes.

The third interviewee was Professor Julia Powles from the University of Cambridge, who addressed the main results and conflicts that emerged from the implementation of the right to be forgotten decision in Europe, providing insights for a critical analysis of emblematic Brazilian cases and ongoing legislation on the subject.

Amie Stepanovich, the U.S. Policy Director at Access Now, a non-governmental organization dedicated to digital rights, was the fourth interviewee in the series. She addressed various topics, including the functioning and importance of encryption as a security technique, as well as the use of controversial investigative techniques (where the state acts as a hacker) and internet application blocking.

All the interviews are available in full on InternetLab’s YouTube channel and transcribed in reports (in Portuguese and English) compiled below.