Digital Rights: Latin America and the Caribbean

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• Preface
• Introduction

Privacy and data protection

• Mapping the protection of privacy
• Privacy and security, the Latin American way
• Privacy and surveillance in Ecuador
• The friction between transparency and personal data protection in Peru
• Your fingerprint for a kilogram of flour: biometric and privacy in Venezuela
• Private profiles in public places
• Personal data, companies and the cloud: are we ready for it?
• The dangerous ambiguity of communications encryption rules in Colombia
• SECRET shakes up Guatemalan society

Freedom of expression

• An opinion in favor of freedom of expression on the Internet
• Freedom of expression violations on the online environment
• Paraguay: democracy and freedom of expression in digital justice
• A key tool in the struggle for a free Internet
• Freedom of expression on the Internet: opportunities and challenges for Latin America
• Spam elections
• Why obliging self-identification is wrong for freedom of information
• Guidelines for freedom of expression on the Internet in Latin America
• Political Internet censorship: a reality in Mexico (with a little help from the United States and GoDaddy.com)
• Documenting Internet blocking in Venezuela
• Toward freer lands on the Internet
• Online censorship is latent in Chile

Regulation

• Chilean bill on personal data protection is a setback for people and businesses
• Peru's controversial law on cybercrime
• The use of drones in Chile and DAN 151: innovation regulations are necessary, but insufficient
• Personal data: awaiting a text
• Civil Rights framework for Internet use: Brazil at the peak of Internet regulation as warrantor of rights
• Digital regulation challenges for the new government of Chile
• Human Rights as a bargaining chip: the case of #LeyTelecom
• 'Digital Argentina': regulation and future?
• Draft Bill 215/2015, infanticide to the newly-born digital rights in Brazil
• The Internet in Mexico, two years after #ReformaTelecom
• How we learned to stop worrying and love the ban
• A new Internet geography for Cuba
• From the cassette to ?the package,' or how to do streaming without Internet in Cuba

Internet governance

• Internet and statecraft: Brazil and the future of Internet governance
• Could Brazil become the leader in Internet governance?
• Mexico discusses Internet governance
• The region is preparing for the Internet governance forum
• NETmundial and the future of Internet governance
• Argentina and progress towards multistakeholder model
• The need for a digital agenda in Bolivia
• Internet governance in Colombia
• Civil society's role in the Internet governance debate
• My experience with the Internet

Copyright

• Copyright law reform in Brazil
• Colombian constitutional court overturned copyright law
• Access to culture and copyright in Uruguay: #noal218, a civil society victory
• The reform of collective management of music in Brazil
• Copyright in Argentina
• Copyright in Brazil
• The privatization of copyright enforcement: the Brazilian context
• A discussion that could finally change copyright in Peru
• Copyright and access to culture in the digital environment
• Open educational resources
• Exceptions and limitations to copyright for libraries and archives in Colombia: update & upgrade more than necessary
• Copyright in Chile
• Copyright in Colombia

Activism

• Activism and the Internet
• Right to protest and policing in social networks
• Internet and democracy: the protests of June in Brazil
• Hacking team in Chile: does the software comply with the minimum quality standards established by the Chilean legal system?
• Internet Rights in Ecuador: the possible triumph of activists?
• The online mobilization against Jair Bolsonaro, Julien Blanc and the rape culture
• Technology and political participation
• Collaborative development in Labhacker: including the 'external element'
• The Indignados movement in Central America reconfigures the traditional class struggle
• Hacking patriarchy: the first #femhack experience

Surveillance and cybercrime

• Limits to domestic espionage: what comes from within can also strike us
• Surveillance, Human Rights and the role of States: Rousseff's speech and Peña Nieto silence
• The Snowden case and the Brazilian reaction
• Chilean government to subject Chileans to American surveillance apparatus
• Information collection, location tracking & user awareness
• What transparency standards should we demand from States using surveillance technologies?
• FinFisher in Mexico: smile, you are still being spied
• Surveillance balloons: how much are we willing to give up in order to feel safer?
• The guardian who watches over the citizens
• Computer crime: the necessary Human Rights perspective
• Cybercrime in Brazil
• The challenges of criminal investigations in the age of Internet
• Cybercrime in Peru
• Postface
• About the Editor