personal data

Año
2020

Al Sur requests governments of Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure that digital technologies applied in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic respect Human Rights. [Document in English].

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Año
2021

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.

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Long-awaited IACHR report welcomes Al Sur recommendations on big data and cyber surveillance

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The report has included our reports "Business and Human Rights: Regional Report on Technology, Big Data and Cyber Surveillance," as well as "Recommendations for transparency and anti-corruption in the acquisition and use of surveillance technologies by the American States" presented on the occasion of the Summit of the Americas in 2018.

Al Sur's report on ethics and personal data in Artificial Intelligence for the former ICDPPC was the only one made by civil society

Etica en la inteligencia artificial
As a consortium of organizations, we are pleased to have offered a collective regional perspective on the challenges in ethics and data protection, but, at the same time, we are concerned that the industry widely dominates such discussions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in detriment of the public interest.
Año
2018

This report was sent in 2018 to the IACHR Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (ESCER) as a contribution to its thematic report on "Business and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards." The final report was published in January 2020, including our recommendations.

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