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WIPO: SCCR45 ended with little agreements and few consensus
Once again, within the framework of the work of the Latin American Alliance for Fair Access to Knowledge, Fundación Vía Libre actively participated in the negotiations of the 45th Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property...
“The artificial intelligence is out of context”
We start March reflecting on the impacts and consequences of AI from Denmark. Luciana Benotti, part of the AI ethics team, traveled to Copenhagen and participated in meetings of the Danish Philosophical Society. The discussion focussed on the implications of the rapid...
Justice defines whether facial recognition returns on the streets of Buenos Aires: how to audit the artificial surveillance?
This article was originally published on the DiarioAR website on February 19, 2024. Written by Beatriz Busaniche, Vía Libre Foundation. The system was implemented by the Buenos Aires Government to identify fugitives from Justice but, among other things, it served to...
Vía Libre presents itself as friends of the court in the case against RENAPER
On October 29, 2023, the Vía Libre Foundation appeared as amicus curiae (“friends of the court”) in the case where access to personal information housed in the database of the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) is discussed. , which was the subject of a security...
Bye bye 2023
What a difficult year we have just had in Argentina. Economic crisis, uncertainty and a long electoral process that monopolized the agenda since mid-August. It is the end of a year in which our country took a political turn that few dared to predict years ago, but...
12° Free Software Conferences: updating the discussions
From September 13 to 16 we met between workshops, talks, corridors, and coffee breaks at the Free Software Conference. In different classrooms of the National University of Cordoba we met to listen, tell, learn, debate and build. The meeting took place and we grew in...
Vía Libre started legal actions to protect the electoral rights of the citizens of Buenos Aires.
By means of this action, Fundación Vía Libre requested the court to suspend the use of the system contracted to the firm MSA (Magic Software de Argentina) until the correct fulfillment of the right to vote is guaranteed in the context of this year's elections of...
Workshop at RightsCon
More than 100 people participated in the workshop "EDIA, assessing Stereotypes and Discrimination in Artificial Intelligence" given by the ethics team of Fundación Vía Libre in Costa Rica, within the framework of the World Summit RightsCon. For this opportunity...
New report: Legal protection of inferred personal data
Nowdays data is not collected, it is inferred. In a context in which the advance of technology makes it possible to build information about all of us all the time, it becomes essential to think about the protection of personal data arising from these processes. In...
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...