Chile’s Investigative Police Force (PDI) confirmed the purchase of a modern spy software by the Italian company, explaining that it is a tool to face highly organized criminal activity. Is it proportional to the use of a computer program of this nature?

A sentence was past for the best known case of revenge porn in Chile: a court ordered the payment of a substantial amount of compensation money for sharing, disseminating and uploading intimate Internet content without consent. The sentence shows the deep impact and the embarrassment of a girl, inflicted by others.

The use of drones is becoming more widespread, they are available to those who can buy them and are becoming a common sight at football matches, concerts and other events and mass gatherings of people. Depending on how they are used, these devices may violate some of our rights, regarding our lives, property and privacy. In Chile their use has just been regulated, but are these norms enough?

Authorities in Guatemala flirt with the idea of regulating social networks and applications, because presumably many of them have the potential of promoting abuse. Does the country need such measures? By Renata Avila, World Wide Web Foundation. Guatemala has long enjoyed a relative calm in terms of censorship and control (…)  Leer Artículo »

Today, activists and police from around the region are faced with a new battleground: the social networks. While for some it is the most effective way of being organized, for others it is fertile ground for surveillance. By Francisco Vera Paz Peña, Digital Rights NGO. At the time of writing, (…)  Leer Artículo »

The economic benefits of being included in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) with the US are remarkable. The ease of travel allows for the exchange of tourism between the countries, and other new economic opportunities through reduced friction caused by visa approval processes. Nonetheless, this program is often used as a mechanism to seek more data on the citizenry of participating (…)  Leer Artículo »

From April onwards it will be possible to travel as a tourist from Chile to the USA without having a visa. Although this agreement was considered by the former Chilean government as a triumph, the cost for granting this “privilege”, for the enjoyment of a minority, will be paid off (…)  Leer Artículo »

For several months we have been conducting a thorough investigation, which seeks to map the protection of privacy and personal data in Chile, which later will also include South America. As the relevant rules are being closely examined, together with the opinion of some players in the system, we will (…)  Leer Artículo »