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What is being discussed at SCCR 43 at WIPO?
Once again, a delegation of Fundación Vía Libre will participate in the World Intellectual Property Organization's Copyright and Related Rights Committee Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Our organization is accredited as Observer to WIPO since 2007 and participates in...
Challenges for a Fair AI
In this document, we elaborated a list of technical recommendations for the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects, specifically Machine Learning based systems. These recommendations are the result of structured interviews with people who work in...
Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Announces Projects Recommended for CFP Funding
On Friday, Jan. 28, the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab announced more than two dozen projects recommended for funding totaling over $500,000. The projects were submitted in response to the lab’s initial Call for Proposals (CFP). The call sought proposals focused on at...
Concern about the inclusion of the DNI in the Census
Civil society organizations, academics and researchers are concerned about the inclusion of a series of questions on sensitive data along with the Census nomination based on a question that requests the ID of the person surveyed. We sent a letter expressing our...
Vía Libre at Rightscon 2021
Vía Libre participated in the 10th Anniversary of RightsCon with several events and sessions. This #RightsCon we came together to solve problems, build partnerships, and achieve tangible outcomes. 🎉Here are some highlights!🎉 Ps: We'd love to hear from you! What were...
30 Groups Denounce Facebook’s Plan to Extended Data Collection by Pestering WhatsApp Users, Degrading Features
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of 28 groups across the globe today sent a letter to Facebook demanding the company stop intimidating WhatsApp users to accept extended data collection, originally set to take effect on May 15. Instead of forcing users to immediately...
International research organizations support WTO Trips Waiver for Covid-19
Available at Infojustice under CCby License Over 250 organizations and prominent researchers and experts, representing millions of researchers, educators, libraries, and support organizations globally, call for reduction of copyright barriers to COVID-19 prevention,...
More than 170 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Oppose Plans for a Big Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital Governance
Not only in developing countries but also in the US and EU, calls for stronger regulation of Big Tech are rising. At the precise point when we should be shaping global norms to regulate Big Tech, plans have emerged for an ‘empowered’ global digital governance body...
The Public Prosecutor’s Office ruled that access to information claims are applicable to the AFI
The Supreme Court must guarantee the right of access to public information on the functioning of the intelligence system. In 2017, from the Citizens' Initiative for the Control of the Intelligence System (ICCSI), we made a request for access to public information to...
Personal Data At Risk: Is the State Doing What it Takes?
This article was first published in Spanish at https://www.infobae.com/opinion/2021/01/27/datos-personales-en-riesgo-el-estado-esta-haciendo-sus-deberes/ Public administration holds the greatest responsibility regarding data custody and needs to raise safety...
Fundación Vía Libre 2020 Yearbook
The year of the Covid 19 pandemic found us working as always in some of the areas that we addressed from the beginning: the promotion and use of Free Software, the debate on access to culture, knowledge and intellectual property, civil and political rights, especially...
Negligence, the greatest risk to our privacy
Essay #5 in the Data and Pandemic Politics series on data justice and COVID-19 Editors’ Note: In this essay, Beatriz Busaniche calls attention to state negligence as a risk to privacy. She contrasts overarching political concerns about how data technologies facilitate...