Tag: Business & Human Rights

The 26th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) opened this week and there are a number of internet-related human rights issues on the agenda, including a new resolution on promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the internet.

Vodafone, the largest international mobile provider in the world, released today the most detailed transparency report ever.

Vodafone, the world’s largest international mobile provider, released its “Law Enforcement Disclosure Report” today, which gives statistics on user data requests in 14 countries including Albania, Tanzania, Hungary, and other jurisdictions that have never before released this type of information.

According to recently leaked documents, the Egyptian government is planning on developing a new social media monitoring system to match the capabilities of the NSA PRISM program.

Google has just announced two big steps forward for enhancing user security: it will provide key statistics on internet-wide email security in its next transparency report, and the company is working to enable end-to-end encryption standards (using PGP) on Gmail to protect users from unauthorized access.

Estamos muy contentos de anunciar que ya está en línea RedLatAm, un mapeo de información relevante sobre regulación, políticas públicas y organizaciones latinoamericanas que trabajan en temas relativos a los derechos digitales en la región.