In Focus: Security and Main Digital Threats in Latin America

The report was put together by the Latin American Observatory of Digital Threats, an alliance of organizations – Derechos Digitales among them – defending digital rights and investigating digital security in Latin America. A “synthesis” of the OLAD members’ work from December 2023 to May 2024, the report builds on two methods: 1) context monitoring, which makes a joint effort to examine the digital security context in the region, and 2) data schematization, which concerns the cases documented by each organization of the alliance individually – 411 cases in total. The issues addressed include surveillance and espionage, online gender-based violence, critical infrastructure attacks, and other online freedom of expression violations in the countries where the OLAD organizations are based: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, México, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.