Posts in Privacy

CAD partitipation in Privacy Week 2022
- January 22, 2022
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["cad"]
- 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...

The importance of metadata
- January 22, 2022
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["fausto", , "ivan"]
- 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...

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....

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...

CAD participated in FLISoL Bogotá 2022
- June 13, 2022
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["cad"]
- 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”.

Recommendations for times of protests
- June 22, 2022
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["ola"]
- 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...

CAD at the 18th edition of FLISoL Quito
- June 29, 2022
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["cad"]
- On June 4th, the eighteenth edition of the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival of Quito, an event of vital importance for education and sharing of Free Software, took place....

CAD visits Colombia (October 2022)
- October 27, 2022
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["cad"]
- On the 11th of October in 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (Centro de Autonomía Digital or CAD), started a week long visit to Bogotá in Colombia, with the purpose to...

CAD participated in the Cybersecurity Summit at Universidad Nacional in Colombia
- November 20, 2022
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["cad"]
- The Cybersecurity Summit at Universidad Nacional in Colombia is an event led by the university research group Tlon-Uqbar. The event has stood out for managing to attract both the national...

CAD technical director joins OpenPGP Key Server board
- November 28, 2022
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["cad"]
- OpenPGP is one of the oldest and most popular standards for sending and receiving end-to-end encrypted and signed emails. Many activists, journalists and others rely on it for their security....