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Democracy and Cyber-Freedom in Reverse?
Stephen* Newborn democracies have been threatened by coup d’etat for the longest time. Myanmar, one of the most unstable democracies, faces the brunt this time.

Is China Opening Up to Become the Next Privacy Stronghold?
Following the approval of the GDPR by the European Union in 2016 to improve protection for personal data and privacy, China also stepped up with a regulation for the cyberspace. However, it adopts a considerably different approach from the European legislation by focusing on cybersecurity and national interests instead.
Report | Surveilling the surveillants: monitoring facial recognition deployment in Latin America and Caribbean
por Eduarda Costa e Felipe Silva On 11 November, 2020, during the Internet Governance Forum – IGF 2020’s Community-facilitated Networking Break, LAPIN promoted a multidisciplinary

Article | Smile, you are being identified
On October 10, our researchers Thiago Moraes, Eduarda Costa and José Renato had their article “Smile, you are being identified! Risks and measures for the

Santa Clara Principles – A contribution regarding transparency around the use of automated tools and decision-making
This is LAPIN’s contribution to the open call for submissions regarding the Santa Clara Principles.

Data portability: a necessary right for users and competitors of digital platforms
Gabriel Araújo Souto Data portability is the possibility of transferring personal data to different digital platforms. This possibility, enforced by the right to data portability,