WE NEED GREATER TRANSPARENCY AND DEBATE ON THE USE OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT

An interview with Jamila Venturini, co-executive director of Derechos Digitales and Michel Roberto de Souza, director of public policy at the organization, is presented. Among other things, they discuss the advancing surveillance technology in countries of the Global South, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the legitimization of greater surveillance in the control of public and private space, and increased racial and migratory discrimination as well as the principal challenges in the region in terms of guaranteeing the right to privacy, autonomy and access to citizens information.