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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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Recommendations for times of protests
- June 22, 2022
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Ola Bini
- The world is going through complicated times. Several countries are currently seeing dramatic upheaval, where protests are met by violent repression and a lack of respect for human rights. During...
Civil society organizations reject attempts to silence and criminalize social movements in the context of protests in Ecuador and demand that Human Rights are respected
- June 17, 2022
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- The undersigned organizations and activists firmly reject the violent repression, arbitrary arrests and the use of surveillance technologies to intimidate, harass, persecute and silence defenders of human rights and nature...
CAD participated in FLISoL Bogotá 2022
- June 13, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- On April 23rd of 2022, CAD participated remotely in the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival in Bogotá with its talk “Privacy and Free Software in times of persecution”.
CoyIM v0.4 released!
- February 17, 2022
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Ola Bini
- Over the last few years, we at CAD have worked really hard on a new release of the CoyIM messenger. Today we are finally releasing version 0.4, and it contains...
Fundamental security recommendations for critical infrastructure
- February 11, 2022
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Ola Bini
- The last years have seen a number of high profile attacks on computer systems either operated directly by the Ecuador government, or by third party corporations that host critical infrastructure....
The importance of metadata
- January 22, 2022
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Fausto Lagos
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Ivan Jijon
- When we talk about privacy, the main focus is usually on encryption of regular data, but to what extent does metadata expose us? What risks are involved in being unaware...