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                        Can we imagine an internet that respects our digital rights?
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                        The importance of strong data protection policies cannot be understated. In the absence of
                        strong, proactive legislation, internet users around the world remain vulnerable to intentional
                        attacks on their privacy and unintentional breaches that put them at risk.
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Making sense of the data privacy landscape</h3>
                        <p>Internews’ Advocating for Data Accountability, Protection, and Transparency
                            (ADAPT) project is building a coordinated advocacy effort to promote rights-respecting
                            privacy policies and help internet users understand what protections currently exist to keep
                            their data, and themselves, safe online.</p>
                        <p class="mb-4">Even in countries that have recently passed data protection legislation, it
                            is important
                            that individuals, private companies, and government have a strong understanding of how the
                            law will be enforced, who will provide oversight, and how it will impact everyday internet
                            users. ADAPT will regularly publish blog posts, podcasts, and other content that simplifies
                            and highlights each stage of the legislative lifecycle.
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Informed advocacy</h3>
                        <p class="mb-4">Data protection laws and regulations are complex and evolving. ADAPT equips
                            traditional internet rights advocates with the legal resources and expertise to conduct
                            informed and effective campaigns promoting rights-respecting privacy policies in their
                            respective countries.</p>
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                    <h2>Where we operate</h2>
                    <p class="purple">ADAPT’s consortium partners are working on privacy advocacy and data protection
                        legislation in six countries in Africa and Latin America. Data protection regulations vary
                        widely across these countries, with some only just beginning to advocate around data rights
                        while other countries have drafted or passed legislation. As a result, ADAPT is identifying and
                        building strategies for each stage of the advocacy lifecycle, and working with consortium
                        partners to engage in collaboration and information sharing across countries and regions. Learn
                        more about the state of data protection in the six target countries here.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Bolivia</h3>
                        <p>Bolivia does not have a personal data protection law, but its constitution does recognize the
                            right to privacy. The laws that currently exist governing issues of privacy and data
                            constitute a scattered and incomplete regulatory framework. A summary of the state of
                            privacy and personal data legislation in the country can be found here [Spanish]. Draft data
                            protection legislation has been introduced to the Bolivian lower chamber and is awaiting
                            further review and consultation.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Brazil</h3>
                        <p>The Brazilian General Data Protection Legislation (LGPD), drafted in 2018 and effective as of
                            February of 2020, is in its early stages of implementation. To oversee enforcement, Brazil’s
                            former president established the Data Protection Authority (DPA), tasked with
                            operationalizing the nascent legislation. In these early stages, advocacy efforts in the
                            country are focused on ensuring the DPA maintains consultation with civil society and human
                            rights groups in developing good guidelines and regulations, staffs its ranks with respected
                            experts, and establishes independence from the federal government as it begins enforcing
                            sanctions this year.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Ecuador</h3>
                        <p>On May 10, 2021, the Ecuadorian National Assembly unanimously passed the country’s first
                            comprehensive data legislation. In addition to enumerating regulations and citizen/user
                            rights around data privacy, the law also established a national data protection authority.
                            It also seeks to regulate cross-border data transfers through a new Superintendent office,
                            imposing steep fines for business who fail to comply. The law draws largely from the GDPR
                            but features some key differences around individual monetary penalties for violations.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Ethiopia</h3>
                        <p>Ethiopia has no specific legislation on data protection, and the issue is relatively new to
                            public discourse in the country. Civil society efforts are currently focused on promoting
                            greater awareness around personal data protection issues and getting in at the ground level
                            to ultimately propose draft legislation.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Kenya</h3>
                        <p>In 2019 Kenyan lawmakers passed the Kenya Data Protection Act, a robust legal framework that
                            sought to modernize the countries legislation around the use of personal data. Other related
                            laws include the Data Protection Policy (2019), ICT Policy (2019) and a handful of older
                            legislation governing information, communications, and cybercrimes. Despite the country’s
                            relative success in passing data protection legislation, oversight and enforcement remain
                            weak, and a lack of funding and awareness have hindered implementation.</p>
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                        <h3 class="mb-4">Nigeria</h3>
                        <p>The Nigerian Data Protection Regulations (NDPR) was passed in 2019. Two additional bills (the
                            Data Protection Bill and the Digital Rights and Freedoms Bill) are currently being debated,
                            however, that would add to the landmark legislation. The concept of data protection is still
                            relatively new to Nigeria, though, and civil society efforts aim now to educate policymakers
                            and the public to help guide enforcement and implementation.</p>
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                                <h2>Supporting privacy
                                    advocacy networks in the Global South</h2>
                                <p class="purple">Privacy is Global! ADAPT builds networks to enable collaboration and
                                    information sharing for new data protection models, approaches, and best practices
                                    emerging from the Global South. Through ADAPT consortium activities, privacy
                                    advocates across countries and regions are better able to share technical expertise,
                                    advocacy best practices, collectively troubleshoot enforcement challenges and build
                                    cross-border projects and trainings.</p>
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                                <h2>Getting Creative with Privacy Advocacy</h2>
                                <p class="purple">ADAPT supports organizations seeking to build capacity & networks
                                    amongst diverse constituencies to build coalitions & public support for
                                    rights-respecting data protection frameworks. Our consortium is building models for
                                    engaging new communities and expanding narratives around why data privacy is vital
                                    for all.</p>
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                                <h2>Enforcement Issues</h2>
                                <p class="purple">Privacy advocacy doesn’t stop once data protection legislation is
                                    passed. Many countries continue to struggle with enforcement challenges including
                                    adequately funding regulatory bodies, human and technical constraints, inadequate
                                    infrastructure, and challenges with the cross-border nature of data protection
                                    regulations. ADAPT seeks to confront these challenges through nuanced advocacy and
                                    regulatory engagement.</p>
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                                <h2>Protecting the Data of the most Marginalized</h2>
                                <p class="purple">We are all impacted by increasing levels of corporate and state
                                    surveillance. However, marginalized groups including the poor, racial and religious
                                    minorities, LGBTQ individuals, indigenous peoples, and women are disproportionally
                                    impacted and left vulnerable without specific legal protections. ADAPT supports
                                    organizations supporting these groups to better advocate for their data rights and
                                    push for policies to protect and empower these communities online.</p>
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                                <h2>Digital ID</h2>
                                <p class="purple">The challenges surrounding the lack of legal identity in many
                                    countries has led to a global call for ‘legal identity for all’ and the development
                                    and issuance of varied Digital ID schemes in developing countries. However, the
                                    implementation of such schemes has not been devoid of abuse, with discrimination
                                    putting at risk the lives and livelihoods of the very individuals it is intended to
                                    benefit. The ADAPT project seeks to address the role of data protection in
                                    mitigating risks around privacy, cybersecurity, freedom of expression and equity and
                                    to design more trustworthy and rights-respecting Digital ID systems.</p>
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                                <p class="purple">Learn more about the core issues surrounding data privacy and
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                        aria-labelledby="v-pills-internet-bolivia-tab">Officially founded in 2018, Internet Bolivia
                        brought together an existing community of individuals that had for years been working to advance
                        human rights on and offline with the goal of specifically addressing the issue of digital rights
                        in Bolivia. Internet Bolivia is currently the only NGO in Bolivia working on digital rights and
                        data protection and pursuing reforms at the local, regional, and national level. Their work on
                        data protection includes an initiative under Internews' iREV project to develop websites and
                        infographics focused on data protection as part of their awareness raising campaign aimed at
                        civil society. They have also worked directly with the government to provide their inputs to the
                        data protection law and have worked with AccessNow on a data protection report.
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                        Founded in 2015, Coding Rights is a women-run organization working to expose and redress the
                        power imbalances built into technology. Coding Rights has contributed to consultations and
                        hearings on Brazilian data protection policies since 2009, long before the current policy was
                        passed. Since then, they have been the advocacy organization pushing hardest for data
                        protections in Brazil, conducting awareness-raising activities, educating and seeking feedback
                        from community members, and conducting workshops on data protection.
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                        aria-labelledby="v-pills-ciudadania-desarrollo-tab">Since its founding in 2009, FCD has worked
                        to promote and defend the rule of law, democratic principles, and individual freedom in Ecuador
                        by promoting democratic processes and transparency both on and offline. Their work on
                        transparency and anticorruption has also featured a strong focus on ensuring open data in
                        Ecuador.
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                        role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="v-pills-center-advancement-rights-democracy-tab">CARD, founded
                        in 2018, is a reimagined and more expansive version of a previous organization known as the
                        Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP) which was established in 2014 as a foreign based Human
                        Rights Organizations. CARD’s programming is dedicated to promoting democratic principles through
                        Ethiopia’s institutions, focusing in particular on issues like freedom of expression and
                        disinformation.
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                        KICTANet was founded in 2003 and has since become one of the most well-respected digital rights
                        organizations in Kenya. They have worked extensively with the government, as the lead
                        organization on the taskforce that provided comments on privacy, security and free expression
                        issues with regards to Kenya’s data protection bill. Since then, KICTANet has been able to
                        present comments during the public participation engagement period and has consulted with both
                        the Senate and the National Assembly on issues regarding the data protection bill.
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                        Since their founding in 2008, Paradigm Initiative has worked to advance Internet freedom in
                        Nigeria and implemented large multi-country programs throughout Africa. Since then, Paradigm
                        Initiative has been on the forefront of pushing for data protections in Nigeria. Paradigm has
                        been advocating for and raising awareness on the lack of personal data protections, including
                        direct advocacy with lawmakers, and partnering with many international organizations to publish
                        articles and research on current practices in Nigeria.
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                    <h2 class="pink mb-3">Get involved</h2>
                    <p class="mb-4">To learn more about ADAPT, please contact us</p>
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