Information security and protection of children and adolescents: discourses and regulatory proposals in MERCOSUR

The project “Information security and protection of children and adolescents: discourses and regulatory proposals in MERCOSUR“, by the Institute for Research on Internet and Society – IRIS, aims to provide reliable inputs for the political and legal debate on reconciling the fight against child sexual violence and the defense of encryption as a technology to protect the right to privacy.

It is not uncommon for both themes to be positioned in the arena of dispute as incompatible, even under the argument that strong encryption would condone online sexual violence against children and adolescents. However, with this project, we intend to analyze the normative and technological proposals being developed in MERCOSUR countries to systematize the knowledge and discourses generated in these territories.

For the development of this project, we are interviewing stakeholders from various sectors involved in the issue, from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, in order to complement the analyses of normative and technological artifacts.

This project is funded by META. All IRIS projects are conducted independently, following research ethics parameters such as replicability, scientific rigor, and those described in the Institute’s statutes. All results are published and freely available and have no intervention or, under any circumstances, prior approval from the funding institution.