[721] Braz. Const., available at http://webthes.senado.gov.br/web/const/const88.pdf.
[722] Braz. Const. tit. 2 ch. 1 art. 5, X.
[723] Id. XI.
[724] Id. XII.
[725] Id. XIV.
[726] Id. LXXII.
[727] Law No. 8,069, July 13, 1990.
[728] Law No. 8,078, Article 43, September 11, 1990.
[729] Law No. 9,472, July 16, 1997, Book 1, Art. 3, IX. (Telecommunications Act).
[730] Law No. 9,507, November 12, 1997.
[731] Id. art. 4 § 1.
[732] Id. art. 4 § 2.
[733] Law No. 10,406, January 12, 1997.
[734] Supplementary Law No. 105, January 10, 2001.
[735] Id. § 3, I.
[736] Id. § 3, III.
[737] Id. § 3, IV.
[738] Id. § 4.
[739] Proposed Law No. 61, 1996.
[740] Proposed Law No. 151, 2000; Proposed Law No. 3,891, 2000; Proposed Law No. 4,972, 2001.
[741] Proposed Law No. 5,403, 2001.
[742] Proposed Law No. 84, 1999.
[743] Proposed Law No. 3,360, 2000.
[744] Proposed Law No. 1589, 1999; Proposed Law No. 2,358, 2000; Proposed Law No. 6,210, 2002; Proposed Law No. 7,093, 2002.
[745] See Renato M.S. Opice Blum, "A Privacidade e os Tribunais," camara-e.net, at http://www.camara-e.net/templates/template_sem_menu.asp?tipo=1&valor=1438.
[746] Proposed Law No. 6,541, 2002.
[747] Law No. 8,159, January 8, 1991, Ch. 1, Art. 4.
[748] Id.
[749] American Convention on Human Rights, Art. 11, July 18, 1978, available at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas3con.htm.
[750] Law No. 9,296, July 24, 1996.
[751] "Brazil makes police phone-taps legal," Reuters World Service, July 24, 1996.
[752] "Brazil vice-president claims his phone was tapped," Reuters North American Wire, September 9, 1992.
[753] "Is Abin behind Telegate?" Latin America Weekly Report, June 8, 1999.
[754] "Wiretaps Lift Brazilian Scandal Into Top Ranks of Government," New York Times, July 15, 2000
[755] Law No. 9,983, July 14, 2000.
[756] Id. art. 313-a.
[757] Id. art. 313-b