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Impunity and Digital Gender Violence. Analysis of the Belén Whittingslow Case
The Belén Whittingslow Case reflects the current situation of online gender violence and illustrates the lack of judicial independence and access to justice in Paraguay. Belén denounced her teacher Cristian Kriskovich for sexual harassment and ended up applying for refugee status in Uruguay after being persecuted in Paraguay. It is relevant to state that Cristian […]
Digital Rights legal clinic
This month of November marks the inauguration of the legal clinic on digital rights organized by TEDIC and the Law School of the National University of Asunción (UNA). The clinic comes about as a TEDIC initiative within the framework of the actions carried out to make visible the need for Paraguay to have a comprehensive […]
Dark Pattern Design: persuasion and manipulation mechanics on the Web
In our day to day, we make use of heuristics (mental shortcuts that allow us to make decisions, pass judgment or solve problems quickly) to navigate the environment around us reducing our cognitive load, so as to be able to dedicate it to other actions that require more attention and reasoning. Heuristics also apply when […]
#DigitalViolenceIsReal: the medium does not matter, consent matters
“La Violencia Digital Es Real” (Digital Violence Is Real) is a campaign promoted by TEDIC that seeks to put online gender violence on the spotlight, sensitize about it and generate public discussion, through the website violenciadigital.tedic.org, social media platforms and advocacy actions. Digital (or online) gender violence exists today and is perpetrated, instigated or aggravated […]
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Protection of personal data in the private sector in Paraguay
The advance of digital technologies has generated multiple instances in which personal data are subject to automated processing by the public and private sector to perform commercial and state services quickly and effectively. The protection of personal data protects people from every infringement of their rights due to the processing of their personal data. This […]
Methodology and justification: Women’s online rights report card
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools for achieving everything from enhanced incomes and wider access to credit, to quality education and healthcare for all and more accountable government. Recognising this, the United Nations has put ICTs at the centre of its new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with countries pledging to achieve universal and […]
Protection of personal data in public databases in Paraguay. An exploratory study
This research seeks to explore the status of protection of personal data stored in databases in some public sector bodies in Paraguay. Specifically, to identify the uses, management, procedures, risks, regulations and legislation that govern the management of such databases. For the research, a legal analysis of the current national legislation was carried out, as […]
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Databootcamp
El Databootcamp consiste en una serie de jornadas que se basan en el intercambio de experiencias, conocimientos y heraamientas para la producción de proyectos de periodismo de datos y Derechos Digitales. Está dirigido a periodistas y comunicadores locales, activistas de sociedad civil y desarrolladores/hackers cívicos. ¡Echále un vistazo al resuen de estas tres semanas llenas […]
Data.Cuenta
La plataforma Data.cuenta es un kit de herramientas que busca visibilizar, contabilizar y medir las formas de violencia que se encuentran mediadas por la tecnología y que son invisibilizadas dentro de la naturalización del cotidiano. Además brinda un glosario conceptual con respecto a las formas de violencia, un directorio de organizaciones, colectivas e iniciativas que […]
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