Because Brazil is a huge country with a far less educated society as the Portuguese, with a lot of conservatives (evangelicals pastors who only scam are just an example of what 10~20% of our Deputies Chamber looks like) politicians who push their agendas that drugs are devil's things and every drug addict should be in jail.

And I say that as a Brazilian, you're comparing an European country with 10 million people (that's less than what my hometown of São Paulo has, now sitting at 11.8 million as of 2014 census) to a country of 200+ million of mostly uneducated people.

Sorry to tell you but you don't change a whole society way of thinking in less than a generation, much less when there's no politicians' desire for that.

Yeah, anyway it should be decriminalized (as it's for users right now) or legalized, but if you want to be real about it, come up with a plan, because realistically speaking there's no way to do it in the next 10~15 years.

That article includes a link to an official Portuguese translation, which is still available at

http://lixo.org/blog/2013/08/05/privacidade-protege-pessoas-...

ah. oops.

Is really hard to separe what should be known and what should not. Like is total absolute right for many reasons as repression write about an government in anonymous. But it is right spread a video from a naked girl from work who got drunk and slept with you ? That's happen EVERY SINGLE DAY here in Brazil, guys take advantage from girls and screw up they life. Would be quick easy track the first person who did share the video, and this morons in most of the times don't think in use a proxy, Tor or something like. Because if they could think, they would never destroy a person's life doing such stupidness in exception psychopaths.

First,

> For many people, privacy is a fundamental right - they see no reason why a government should be meddling in my affairs without a more specific reason than a blanket search for possible terrorism.

... this is not about blanket searches, and:

> I'm not saying that privacy is an absolute. Foiling criminal activity often means breaching privacy - a database of phone calls can be helpful tool to investigate a criminal network.