Mexican Youth Are Telling the Government to Keep Its Hands Off Their Data Jonathan Kealing - Public Radio International
go to original April 22, 2014

What's Happening in Mexico? A global call for freedom #EPNvsInternet (YoSoyRedTV)

 Pena Nieto's landmark telecom reform bill has sparked protest among people who believe the government is overreaching.

Many believe the NSA overstepped US law in secretly collecting cell phone and Internet data. Mexico's government doesn't want to make that mistake. So it has proposed a telecommunications reform bill that gives it plenty of freedom to spy and even disrupt electronic communication.

Among its more startling components are explicit permission for government officials to store two years of cell phone communications, to disrupt cell phone signals during protests, and to censor websites that officials believe violate good customs and morality.

Mexico's youth aren't pleased with what they see as an effort to limit their free expression — and they've taken to the streets in protest, according to Vice. The bill, proposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto, will go before the Senate in the weeks ahead and activists hope it will be voted down.

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