On November 6 2015, the Mexican Ministry of Economy made public the Spanish version of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), allowing a wider view about the effects that the chapter regarding intellectual property will have on Mexican legislation and how human rights on the digital environment will be affected. One thing is sure: Mexico has a lot more to lose that it has to win with the made agreements.

By claiming his son’s right to education, a mother has being exiled and threatened with death. Trolls are to blame. Online and offline, we are in need of education, sensitization and debate to be able to deal with all of this rage.

By the end of 2014, after a couple of years as wikipedian, I found out about an awful fact: One out of ten wikipedians is a woman (yes, only one). I started imagining what effect this could have on the internet’s main reference website and that is when everything made sense.

The destiny of the Internet is key in any analysis of telecommunications reform (#ReformaTelecom) in Mexico, which included constitutional changes, as well as a regulatory law that will outline the guidelines of the regulator. International trends have been dragging their associated problems closer to Mexicans, to a point where it is impossible to escape them.

In March 2013, the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto published the report For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying. For Mexico, this report marked a turning point: the researchers found the surveillance software FinFisher operating in two telecommunication networks.

The recent approval of a new Telecommunications Law in Mexico uncovers an outrageous reality where the political process behind the transactions have converted human rights into a bargaining chip. Francisco Vera, NGO Derechos Digitales. After an exhausting and prolonged battle by human rights activists from Mexican civil society, the draft (…)  Leer Artículo »

The Telecommunications Act has been controversial not only because it damages freedom of expression on the Internet, but also because throughout the process of its discussion, the contributions of civil society have been minimal. What will happen to public interest in this legislation under these conditions? By Israel Rosas* The (…)  Leer Artículo »

The 1DMX web site was censored for three months, without explanation and with the cooperation of the Mexican and American government, along with the complicity of one of the largest domain name companies in the world. What are the implications of political censorship on the Internet for the rest of (…)  Leer Artículo »