3. The confidentiality of public messages forwarded through
telecommunication facilities consists of a ban on disclosing the content thereof,
as well as on providing information on where this may be found or information
that may result in the disclosure thereof.
Article 27º
Banned messages
1. The use of telecommunication services is not authorized for purposes
running counter to the public order and good conduct.
2. Telecommunications carriers may not accept or transmit a message when
noted that it does not comply with the legal regulations and precepts for
whatever reasons, or messages aimed at causing damage to the State,
telecommunication carriers, recipients or third parties.
Article 28º
Priorities and mandatory transmission
1. All agents engaged in the provision of telecommunication services, carried
out by carriers, are obliged to transmit top priority messages prompted by
exceptional circumstances, particularly in order to report losses or damages or
requests of urgent assistance.
2. Communications designed to safeguard human life at sea, on land, in the
air and in outer space, epidemiological notifications of exceptional urgency and
messages intended to issue warnings of calamities or alterations of public
order, take absolute priority.
3. All owners of private telecommunications systems or anyone operating
them are required to use the system to transmit all top priority messages under
the conditions listed on the previous item.
4. State telecommunications are endowed with the right of priority over other
telecommunications whenever possible and provided that this is specifically
requested for this purpose, safeguarding the provisions in the item 2 of this
Article.
5. Regulations stipulate for each service a scale of priority, considering the
different types of messages and application conditions.