What is the current status of the legal framework for communications surveillance in Latin America? That is the question that underpins this first analysis focused on criminal investigation and intelligence activities.

The Covid-19 Observatory of the Al Sur Coalition (OCCA) is an initiative of 11 civil society organizations grouped in the Al Sur Coalition, which seeks to analyze how local technological responses to Covid-19 comply with basic data protection and access to information principles and best practices, and whether they represent additional risks to the exercise of human rights.

This document is presented by the Al Sur consortium and was prepared by one of its members, Karisma Foundation (Colombia), in response to the request made by the ITU for civil society to report problems and challenges for the expansion of connectivity in rural and remote areas, and the role of community networks in this process of reducing the urban-rural digital gap.

With EFF, EDRi, IT-Pol Denmark, Article 19, Derechos Digitales, and Homo Digitalis, Al Sur has presented a joint report with shared concerns on the new draft of the Second Budapest Additional Protocol on Cybercrime.

Our submission focused on demanding the main following changes to the provisional text:

Joint declaration that explores the effects that the European Copyright Directive may have in Latin America and the Caribbean if local authorities replicate some of the most controversial aspects of the initiative. [Document in Spanish].

Al Sur sent a presentation to the "Guide to guarantee freedom of expression regarding deliberate disinformation in electoral contexts" presented by the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States. This is the first time that Al Sur has contributed to the issue of disinformation in Latin America, and we are pleased to say that our document was considered in various aspects of the final guide. [Document in Spanish].

This document is a contribution to the public consultation on "Ethics and data protection in artificial intelligence: continuation of the debate" promoted by the ICDPPC (International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners). As indicated in a report made by ICDPPC after receiving presentations, Al Sur's presentation was the only one made by civil society and from the context of the public interest. [Document in English].