Facial recognition in Latin America

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Al Sur analyze the characteristics of the deployment of facial recognition technologies by the States in Latin America, taking into account the development of the industry, its legality and also the rights affected.

(micro site under construction)

Enlace
https://www.alsur.lat

COVID-19 Observatory

Una representación de América del Sur con muchos cuadraditos de colores. Logo de Covid Alsur.

The COVID-19 pandemic became an excuse for Latin American governments to adopt various digital technologies to control people's contagion and provide health information. This project analyzed the effectiveness and the impact of these technologies on human rights.

Enlace
https://covid.alsur.lat/en/

Executive Summary: A Human Rights Legal Framework for Communications Surveillance in Latin America

Año
2021
Legal Framework for Communications Surveillance

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.

Archivo
Executive summary_A Human rights legal framework for communications surveillance in Latin America.pdf
Grupo de trabajo
Vigilancia

Regional trends in the deployment of technologies during the pandemic in Latin America: initial reflections from Al Sur’s Covid-19 Observatory

Año
2021
Report on COVID-19 and tech

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.

Archivo
Infome preliminar EN-1.pdf
Grupo de trabajo
personal data

Expanding Internet Connectivity

Año
2020
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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.

Archivo
Al Sur_ ITU-Expanding Internet Connectivity.pdf
Grupo de trabajo
Acceso

Joint report on the new Draft of the Second Budapest Additional Protocol on Cybercrime

Año
2020
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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:

Archivo
ALSUR_Submission-COE-December-15.pdf
Grupo de trabajo
Ciberseguridad
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