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Personal Data Protection in Civil Society Organizations in the Global South: Urgency, Challenges, and Responsibility
Sara Zambrano
In recent years, the importance of personal data has grown exponentially. What was once considered administrative information—names, phone numbers, addresses—is now a strategic asset that influences public policy decisions, state surveillance mechanisms, and the commercial strategies of large technology corporations. For civil society organizations (CSOs), especially in contexts marked by high levels of violence, discrimination, and state or corporate surveillance,...
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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...
CAD partitipation in Privacy Week 2022
- January 22, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- During the Privacy Week 2022 that took place between January 24th and 28th of 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (CAD) participated in the panel “The importance of encryption in data...