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Civil Society from Latin America and the Caribbean Demands to Respect HR when Governments Deploy Technologies to Fight Against COVID-19

Año
2020
Tech to fight against COVID-19 and human rights

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].

Archivo
Civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean demands to respect human rights when governments deploy digital technologies to fight against COVID-19.pdf
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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
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Long-awaited IACHR report welcomes Al Sur recommendations on big data and cyber surveillance

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

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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.
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Inteligencia Artificial
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Business and Human Rights: Regional Report on Technology, Big Data and Cyber Surveillance

Año
2018
Cover Business and Human Rights

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.

Archivo
informe regional sobre Tecnología, Big Data y Cibervigilancia.pdf
Grupo de trabajo
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