Reports

Summary to the document "Evaluating the new Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime in Latin America".

During 2022, national discussions will be held regarding the adoption of the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime.

This international instrument establishes procedures that seek to strengthen international cooperation for law enforcement access to citizens' data. This raises important challenges in relation to human rights and fundamental freedoms.

This document produced by R3D de México for Al Sur addresses the content moderation on the Internet and its complexities from the perspective of the Inter-American standards on freedom of expression. In this regard, it introduces the limitations of freedom of expression in relation to protected speech and those that, due to their incitement to violence, genocide and child abuse, are not protected. Secondly, it provides an extensive explanation of content moderation, its principles and effects.

Facial recognition is a biometric identification technology that, by analyzing certain characteristic features of the face, seeks to establish a person’s identity.

Although it is less accurate than other forms of biometric identification, such as fingerprint or iris reading, it does not require physical contact. This allows its deployment, for example, in public spaces for large-scale surveillance purposes and without those who are being subjected to its scrutiny necessarily being aware of it.

This essay was prepared by CELE and the Regional Office for South America of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights for Al Sur. Unlike other contributions on the subject of disinformation that focus on analyzing information flows on the Internet or the responsibilities of intermediaries, this essay focuses on the responsibility of the sources, particularly public officials.

Gender-based violence manifests itself in different areas of daily life, globally and especially in Latin America, where various regional indicators exhibit gender inequalities reflected both in economic disparities and in disproportionate access to education, health and even the Internet.

This document raises the importance of the discussion for the region about content moderation. First, introduces how the discussion is inserted in comparative debate and describes and

maps the legal discussion around intermediary liability at the Interamerican regional level, addressing regulatory and self-regulatory initiatives, as well as proposals and principles promoted

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.