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State of Privacy in Chile: Future (im)perfect

In Chile, the protection of private life, private communications, and the sanctity of home lay the foundation that, in principle, provides individuals with sufficient protections from the abuse of both State and private actors.

Asylum seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, 21 March 2014, AAP/Eoin Blackwell/via REUTERS (Faces pixellated at source)

Refugees, migrants and minorities: Asia Pacific September round-up

Award recognizes Iranian cartoonist held by Australia, surveillance in Thailand takes a most scary turn and a report on transgender women in Cambodia reveals shocking statistics.

Thailand’s Brave New Facebook

Organized social media informant groups, which often target their own friends and families, may be putting Thailand at the cutting edge of a worrying new digital trend: Social surveillance.

A man stands on an escalator at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai May 6, 2011, REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Can surveillance and innovation coexist?

As the theory goes, policy can create the optimal framework for trust. But, in reality…

A boy peeps through a hole in a wooden fence erected in front of a large store in the centre of Ljubljana, REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

The “this is not a guide” to online privacy

While there is no one-solution-fits-all when it comes to security, these tips can certainly help protect your privacy. Just don’t call this a “guide”, though.

Joint Debate of Assembly and ECOSOC on Partnerships for Post-2015 Agenda, UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Leading press freedom group and IFEX member should be granted access to UN bodies

Civil society groups ask ECOSOC to reconsider granting valued press freedom group and IFEX member, The Committee to Protect Journalists, consultative status at the UN.

A demonstrator holds a banner during a protest rally against internet surveillance in Berlin, 7 September 2013, REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Denmark approves export of Internet surveillance system to China

Denmark has an obligation to conduct a thorough assessment before approving the export of an internet surveillance system to China to ensure that there is no risk that it can be used for human rights abuses.

Volunteers of Amnesty International hold signs that read, "Save the IACHR" (Inter-American Human Rights Commission), REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Open letter on the financial crisis facing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

On 23 May, the IACHR reported that severe financial problems have forced it to cancel its July and October sessions and all trips planned for this year and, if new funding cannot be secured by mid-June, will lead to the non-renewal of the contracts of 40 per cent of its staff