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MAIA: Artificial Intelligence to Protect Those Who Defend Rights
Centro de Autonomía Digital
In Latin America and the Caribbean, civil society organizations face an increasingly complex landscape. Repression no longer occurs only in the streets or in courtrooms; it also unfolds in digital spaces. Mass surveillance, targeted cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, gender-based digital violence, communication infiltration, and online criminalization are now part of the daily reality for human rights and land defenders, social organizations,...
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Special Civil Intelligence Unit to Monitor Digital Calls to Action?
- September 25, 2025
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Álvaro Paredes
- The announcement by the Ministry of the Interior about the creation of a Special Civil Intelligence Unit to “monitor digital calls” and “prevent outbreaks of violence” is a serious setback...
DNS and Privacy: Who Controls Your Browsing
- September 01, 2025
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Laura Zambrano
- While most discussions about Internet privacy focus on cookies and fingerprinting, there is a fundamental layer that often goes unnoticed, the Domain Name System (DNS). Created in the 1980s to...
Quick Response
- August 08, 2025
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Ivonne Zambrano
- 2025. The world isn’t spinning any faster, but we live as if it were. Everything is fleeting, fast, instantly. We’ve grown used to life happening in real time, without pause....
Secure Wi‑Fi: Basic Steps to Protect Your Connection and Privacy
- July 01, 2025
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Laura Zambrano
- Today, practically everything we do on our devices goes through a Wi‑Fi network: from checking email and making video calls, to watching a show or managing bank accounts. Sometimes we...
Regarding the approval of the organic law of intelligence
- June 10, 2025
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- The Intelligence Law proposed in Ecuador raises deep concerns about its potential impact on the rights and freedoms of those who live in the country. While national security is a...
Programming languages for more secure development
- May 12, 2025
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Ola Bini
- When starting a new development project, there exists many choices that can be made. These choices will often have a large impact on both functional and non-functional aspects of the...