Consideramos la privacidad en los entornos digitales como un derecho fundamental de las personas. Realizamos estudios, análisis e investigación sobre la importancia de la protección y seguridad de los datos, así como la privacidad de las personas en diferentes contextos en Paraguay.
[Research Release] Understanding the National Ticketing System: An exploratory study
This research offers an exploratory study of the National Electronic Ticketing System in Paraguay (SNBE in its Spanish acronym). It focuses particularly on identifying public and private actors involved in its design and implementation and its impact on the privacy and protection of personal data of users of public transport. TEDIC has been carrying out […]
[Launch-investigation] The invisible integration in the Triple Border Area
The press has reported a growing technologicalization of public security policies in recent years. Such a trend is particularly evident in the Triple Border Area, a strategic area due to one of the largest hydroelectric plants on the planet and a vital circulation of people, goods, and services. In this sense, the neighbouring countries have […]
Lessons learned from the global campaign #StopFacebook #SaveWhatsApp and next steps
The imminent modification announcements in WhatsApp’s terms of service (ToS) and privacy policies – without alternative measures and imposing deadlines to accept the changes or give up app functionalities – generated a coordinated response from civil society at the local, regional and international levels. From local to global In TEDIC, we tried to understand the […]
Mass Surveillance in the Context of a State of Emergency
This article was originally published in The GNI Blog and is the result of a fellowship conducted by a member of TEDIC with GNI-Internews. This article extracts some sections from the EPU report delivered to United Nations in October 2020. For more information, access here. In the context of my GNI-Internews Fellowship, I conducted research […]
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 […]
Drone use: does it combat the pandemic or strengthen surveillance?
The use of technology has become a world trend, with the argument of combating the new coronavirus and the pandemic it has generated. Although the application of technology may reinforce preestablished public health policies, it is worrying that it may also be used for mass surveillance purposes. The newspaper Última Hora reported on March 24 […]
Mass surveillance in the context of a state of emergency
This research presented by Paloma Lara Castro was carried out within the Global Network Initiative Fellowship and was published originally here. Emergency laws have historically been used to legitimize and amplify mass surveillance and control. Many countries have declared states of emergency to respond more effectively to the coronavirus pandemic, including Paraguay. As a GNI-Internews […]
Call logs: between the Right to Privacy and the prosecution of crimes
The judicial investigation of the murder of young liberal Rodrigo Quintana at the headquarters of the Liberal Party exposed the implication of high leaders of the political power. The lawyers for the complaint insist that call logs can be used as evidence to clarify who gave the order to enter the party’s premises in the […]
Electronic ticketing: strategic litigation
Synthesis of the legal process carried out regarding the implementation of electronic ticketing Given the governmental decision to implement electronic ticketing, we have submitted a request for information and subsequently initiated a recurso de amparo so that they provide us with the requested information. We will detail below the steps and results of the process. […]
Emergencies should not be a blank check
In the previous article in the #Antivirus series I reflected on the importance of governance in times of health emergencies to develop effective technological solutions, and highlighted the low impact of local experiences in the development of technologies and open data. This is due to their lack of sustainability over time, which results in precarious […]
Child pornography – how is the evidence obtained on the Internet?
Since the findings of the international operation “Luz na infância” (“Light in childhood”), led in Paraguay by the Public Ministry and the National Police for the prosecution of child pornography, it became clear that this type of abuse constitutes a problem with an international dimension. The scope has expanded with the irruption of new technologies […]
Biometric Data in the electronic voting system in Paraguay
The bill on the Implementation of Biometric Data in the electronic voting system in Paraguay called “Modifying Articles 98, 201 and 208 of Law 834/96” was presented on October 16, 2019, by Senators Fidel Zavala, Stephan Rasmussen, Patrick Kemper, Antonio Apuril, Georgia María Arrúa. According to the motive of the bill, “[] it is of […]
Who watches the watchman? Facial Recognition in Asunción
On September 13th we submitted an unconstitutional action – under the sponsorship of the lawyers Federico Legal and Ezequiel Santagada of IDEA and in collaboration with the legal clinic of public information access of the National University of Asunción – against the resolution No. 238 of the Ministry of Interior and the subsequent judicial resolutions […]
How is our sensitive health data deal with by the Social Security System and private companies? #PersonalData # Biometrics
The third investigation on the series of Personal Data and Privacy was launched this week. The research addresses health rights and labor law, with recommendations that aim to guide State action on the treatment of personal health data in Paraguay, where the regulatory system still does not comply with international standards and fundamental principles on […]
Analysis of the Budapest Cybercrime Convention in the Paraguayan criminal system
The Cybercrime Convention created in the year 2001; was ratified by the Paraguayan state at the end of 2017. This international convention addresses criminal behaviors that are committed through the internet and in turn the cross-border criminal prosecution of them and thus reduce the incidence of “safe shelters” for cybercrime. Based on these advances in […]
Surveillance in Paraguay
Paraguay spent 35 years under the military dictator, Alfredo Stroessner. During that time communications were illegally intercepted, and sensitive information was gathered and stored in large databases. An example of this is the police database discovered in 1992, popularly known as the “Terror Files.” Who can spy us? National Police The National Police is the […]
Unblinking eyes: Surveillance in Latin America
Comparative Analysis of Surveillance Laws and Practices in Latin America with Paraguay In December 1992, following a hastily-drawn sketch of a map given to him by a whistleblower, the Paraguayan lawyer Martin Almada drove to an obscure police station in the suburb of Lambaré, near Asunción. Behind the police offices, in a run-down office building, […]
Military authorities in Paraguay illegally spy on journalist
A major newspaper in Paraguay has revealed that top members of the military spied on one of its journalists. According to them, the journalist was the object of unlawful espionage due to her work on corruption inside the military. The Public Ministry has acknowledged the issue and it has had access to evidence provided by […]
#pyrawebs bill
Regional organizations defending Human Rights on the Internet manifest their concern about mandatory data retention bill in Paraguay We the signatories, regional civil society groups and human rights organizations, want to express our concerns about the Paraguayan bill S-146438. [1] At the moment, the Paraguayan government is considering radical changes in national surveillance and intelligence […]
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