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The Igarape Institute Digital Security program develops interdisciplinary research, facilitates intersector dialogues and promotes spaces of trust and awareness for the advancement of digital policies. We work on issues such as digital security, internet crime, artificial intelligence, internet of things, data protection and smart cities.

We build platforms, sparking critical thinking on the impact of technologies in society and addressing challenges to digital rights protection through the implementation of technologies in our daily lives.

What are the primary challenges Brazil faces in preventing threats to cyber security, such as cyber attacks? Who are the key stakeholders in this area? How can they work together to mitigate existing risks? The search for answers to these questions stimulates the Igarape Institute to systematize, analyze and gather existing knowledge on cybersecurity.

This interactive infographic visually presents all the information and data contained in the publication “Implementating Responsible and Ethical Use of Crime Prediction Technologies.” With this tool, you can explore various types of prediction technologies, their prerequisites, social and ethical impacts, interactions with other tools, best practices, international standards, and more.

To help ensure predictive technologies promote human rights and sustainable and equitable development, we created the Global Task Force on Predictive Analytics for Security and Development. The task force comprises some of the world’s leading thinkers, practitioners, and advocates.

The website consolidates analyses, research data, norms and other documents on the subject of digital security. This way, it aims to strengthen the collective action.

The project reassess the elaboration of Brazil’s digital policies regarding areas such as security, privacy and deployment of new technologies.

We wrote a study on the implementation and use of video monitoring in Brazil. These technologies are among the main surveillance devices used by police authorities. (Page in Portuguese)

Digital Security Publicatons

Digital Security in the media

Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations everywhere.

Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the security in and of information and communications technologies (O...

Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity.

If we didn’t know already, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the fact that data is the most important strategic asset of the 21st century

Central Asia is the staging ground for a new digital Great Game

Louise Marie shares below some reflections on the importance of Cyber Portals to CCB and the lessons learned from the process of developing the national portal

The COVID-19 pandemic is generating monumental challenges for most governments, corporations and societies, both online and off.

Late last year, Colombia’s federal police arrested Diego Optra, a crime boss who heads a ruthless gang called La Local in the port city of Buenaventura.

All during 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept around the world, another novel virus with devastating long-term effects spread unnoticed worldwide

At 8:45 pm, five gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale establishment in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.