Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la información’
Constitutional Court ratifies the right of consumers to access information about sugary drinks’ effects on health
The right of consumers to access the commercial by NGO Educar Consumidores that was censored still stands. The Constitutional Court upheld the T-543 ruling, which had been challenged by the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce. This ruling defends the right of consumers to access information, and the right of the NGO to inform and carry out public health campaigns.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court recognizes the right of consumers to access information about the health effects of sugary drinks
The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of a tutela filed by Dejusticia and other organizations that make up the Food Health Alliance. This is an unprecedented ruling in favor of consumers in Colombia.
Read More“Ask the President …”
Accountability and transparency, a requirement to avoid corruption, is an activity of daily openness that every official must fulfill. Even when it comes to giving answers that are not worthy of a public entity, let alone the one responsible for ensuring transparency, such as the Office of Procurator-General.
Read MoreCourt Recognizes consumers’ Right to Access Information About the Effects of Sugary Drinks on Health – A First in Colombia
The Supreme Court vindicated the right of consumers to access a commercial about the health effects of sugary drinks whose dissemination had been prohibited.
Read MoreWho is a populist?
Populists are, in the end, antidemocratic. What’s more: they use democratic election and the language of democracy in order to undermine it.
Read MoreAccess to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read MoreReasons and Non-reasons of the Post-Truth
Why do we believe clearly false news? Why do millions think climate change does not exist? Why is it that so many fathers and mothers do not immunize their children, believing the myths about the curses of the vaccines? How do voters around the world and all conditions choose populist rulers who lie in the light of day?
Read MoreCensorship, a new ingredient in the sugary drinks debate?
Through a tutela initiative, citizens want that the television commercial on the possible health effects of sugary drinks that the Industry and Commerce Oversight Office prohibited is played again.
Read MoreWe presented a tutela in favor of the right consumers have to receive information on the amount of sugarpresent in the beverages we drink
Dejusticia and other organizations filed a tutela regarding the Industry and Commerce Oversight Agency ban of a commercial by Educating Consumers that addressed health effects of excessive sugary drinks consumption.
Read MorePrior Consultation Can Prevent Environmental Damage in Colombia and for Humanity: Daniel Cerqueira
Interview with DPLF’s expert that participated in the 25th Anniversary Seminar of the ILO Convention 169 in Bogotá.
Read MoreThe Hacked Hacker
If someone wanted to know the most information possible about a person, ideally one would embody them. Given that this is impossible, it leaves the option of hacking a person’s computer or phone to read their emails, chats, google search history, as well as turn on their camera and film what happens in their surroundings and their microphone to hear everything… almost like becoming that person at a distance.
Read MoreAsking For Forgiveness or Permission
Data management cannot be done by any means and much of that data can affect people’s privacy.
Read MoreCan a Person Ask Google, Or Any Search Engine, to Erase and Take Down Their Personal Information?
We intervened before the Constitutional Court in a writ of constitutional protection case in which the plaintiff asks that El Tiempo and Google.com to erase and take down from their digital media and web searches all information related to a past criminal case she was implicated in that has expired.
Read MoreA Basket Full of Strangers
Can the average Colombian consumer understand the information provided on food products?
Read MorePersonal Data in Public Information: Dark in the Private Sphere and Light in the Public Sphere
This document explores the response of Colombian law and jurisprudence to the tensions between intimacy and the publicity of data.
Read MoreWire-Tapping to Be Evaluated by the OECD?
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) evaluators have arrived to analyze if Colombia has good practices and can join the rich countries’ club.
Read MoreWhat Are We Going to Eat for the Holidays?
Holiday meals provide us an opportunity to demand more information from the food industry.
Read MoreSecrets among Company…
Secrets serve the intimacy of its keeper. As such, last month Apple released the new iPhone 6 with a surprising technological feature: the possibility to protect your cellphone’s photos, contacts, and certain information with a password that no one else can have access to.
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