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Latin American Governments Must Commit to Surveillance Transparency

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItHigh Tech Spying in Latam, Past and PresentPolicy RecommendationsStates should publish transparency reports of law enforcement demands to access customers’ information.Companies should publish detailed statistical transparency reports regarding all government access to their customers’ data.Companies should publish guidelines for government agencies seeking users’ data.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Secret laws—about government access to data or anything else—are unacceptable.&nbsp;Service providers should notify all their customers, wherever they live when the government seeks their data. Such notice should be immediate, unless doing so would endanger the investigation.&nbsp;Freedom of Information Laws and investigative reporting are needed to shine a light on governmental data requests and secret surveillance. Whistleblowers’ legal protection is required, too.&nbsp;ConclusionsShare ItImagine walking down the street, looking for a good cup of coffee. In the distance, a storefront glows in green through your smart glasses, indicating a well-reviewed cafe with a sterling public health score. You follow the holographic arrows to the crosswalk, as your wearables silently signal the self-driving cars...San Francisco—Local activists San Francisco today over the city police department’s illegal use of a network of more than 400 non-city surveillance cameras to spy on them and thousands of others who protested as part of the Black-led movement against police violence.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the...Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in your home can involve the creation of an intimate portrait of your private life. The VR/AR headsets can request audio and video of the inside of our house, telemetry about our movements, depth data and images that can build a highly accurate geometrical representation...Cops in Vallejo have put their controversial cell-phone surveillance tool back in the box, after a judge released a tentative ruling (which the judge might or might not later finalize or amend) that they'd acquired it in violation of state law. The case was brought by Oakland Privacy, the EFF...Update (9/30/20): EFF submitted a to extend the comment deadline by 30 days since federal agencies must generally provide the public a 60-day comment period. If the extension is granted, we will update this page accordingly. We need your help. On September 11, 2020...Law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local level are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on surveillance technology in order to track, locate, watch, and listen to people in the United States, often targeting dissidents, immigrants, and people of color. EFF has written tirelessly about the...We're proud to announce a new updated version of in eight Latin American countries and Spain. For over a year, EFF has worked with partner organizations to develop detailed questions and answers (FAQs) around communications privacy laws. Our work builds upon previous and...’s second (Who Defends Your Data?) report on data privacy practices in Spain shows how Spain’s leading Internet and mobile app providers are making progress in being clear about how users' personal data is being protected. Providers are disclosing what information is being...With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted...Since this COVID-19 crisis began people have looked to technology to assist in contact tracing and notification. Technology will never be a silver bullet to solve a deeply human crisis, even if it. No app will work absent widespread testing with human follow up. Smartphones are not...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItHigh Tech Spying in Latam, Past and PresentPolicy RecommendationsStates should publish transparency reports of law enforcement demands to access customers’ information.Companies should publish detailed statistical transparency reports regarding all government access to their customers’ data.Companies should publish guidelines for government agencies seeking users’ data.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Secret laws—about government access to data or anything else—are unacceptable.&nbsp;Service providers should notify all their...

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