Posts Tagged ‘Privacidad’
“Terms and Conditions May Apply”… depending on where you are
In practice, the Latin American lack of adequate protection manifests itself in the possibility of banks using credit algorithms to decide whether to grant a loan or not, without any intervention by someone with the authority and competence to change the decision.
Read MoreHacked
Governments have taken advantage of a legal and informative vacuum to turn their critics’ cell phones into surveillance devices. It is essential to update the legislation and require government entities to disclose how they use electronic surveillance systems.
Read MorePrivate life in a public way
The new Police Code confuses privacy with staying at home and targets the right to privacy.
Read MoreHow to move forward in the Access to Information Movement
I have learned that at some point, the human rights perspective is not enough to push the right forward. Instead, the time has come to collaborate more closely with tech-oriented background actors, such as the Open Government Data Movement.
Read MoreThe Digital Gods
At the center of this debate, beyond the capitalist argument of the mobile giant, is the protection of citizens’ right to privacy. Is privacy an absolute right that must never be compromised, not even to allow the state to fulfill its security obligations? Of course not.
Read MoreThe Digital God
The FBI lost the security battle against Apple, which refused to breach the privacy of a terrorist’s cellphone, but in the digital age everyday new risks emerge.
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 MoreCommunications Surveillance in Colombia: The Chasm between Technological Capacity and the Legal Framework
The goal of this book is to examine the Colombian legal and jurisprudential framework regarding communications surveillance in light of today’s technologies.
Read MoreFreedom to Smoke
Smoking is an act of freedom, some say while they light a cigarette. The Marlboro man comes to time, riding through the plains to the rhythm of his smoke circles.
Read More#TheDayWeFightBack
The ease with which we are able scan voices and data generates abuses that affect other equally valid objectives: intimacy, freedom of expression, integrity and life.
Read MoreIntervention: Tutela Writ Against the Artistic Project “Blanco Porcelana”
The Constitutional Court invited us opine on the tension between freedom of expression and artistic creation, and the right to privacy and the reputation, in the context of artwork that addresses racial discrimination.
Read MorePersonalizad Internet
There’s nothing wrong with the internet knowing (or thinking it knows) our preferences and interests.
Read MoreIntimacy in the Digital Age
Don’t let them persuade you that your privacy is worth less on the Internet. The general rule is that everyone has a right to intimacy, an abstract area reserved by the law for oneself, ones friends and family.
Read MoreAre the Five Eyes being Short-sighted?
A new United Nations resolution could put a brake on the large scale espionage carried out by countries like the United States.
Read MoreIntervention in the challenge the proposed statute of intelligence and counterintelligence
Dejusticia and the Foundation for Press Freedom -FLIP- argues for the application of standards that should be applied to protect rights frequently violated by intelligence activities and, at the same time, ensure their effectiveness.
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