The government of Brazil has dropped a controversial provision in legislation some have dubbed the country’s “Internet Constitution” that would have required companies to store data on Brazilian citizens inside the country, Reuters reports. The data storage provision was added last year after certain U.S. National Security Agency surveillance leaks revealed the agency had spied on Brazil’s president. Provisions that remain in the legislation include other privacy safeguards and limits on the gathering and use of Internet users’ metadata. Late last year, Google had testified in front of the U.S. Congress that local data storage laws would balkanize the Internet.
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