Welcome to the ADAPT Data Protection Advocacy Toolkit! The Toolkit is a library of useful resources to support data privacy advocates, lawyers, and other concerned actors in promoting and enforcing rights-respecting data protection legislation and individual data privacy. Resources include primers on data protection, legal analyses, case law, advocacy guides, campaign concepts and more. To find the resources most useful to you, you can filter the library using the three navigation tabs in the search below. Those tabs include:
You can also explore data protection issues, including resources, blog posts, and podcasts through our dedicated country pages for Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria by following the links above
Resources designed to inspire and guide more impactful and informed advocacy efforts, including advocacy models, campaigns, and strategies.
Materials and guides that draw on previous data protection advocacy efforts to illustrate best practices and successful approaches.
These reports, briefs, and other guides help to contextualize the current state of data protection and advocacy in specific countries.
Explainers and overviews of the laws, regulations, and policies that specifically govern data protection.
Campaigns, reports, white papers, and other materials that involve direct engagement with government bodies and officials.
This section consists of resources to introduce the concept of data protection.
These resources touch on the legal environment and systems that can influence what policies are possible and how they might look in practice.
Resources and best practices to keep your personal data safe.
These guides, examples, and strategies offer assistance in pursuing changes through the courts
To find resources in the Toolkit, select as many of the filters in the search bar below as you would like. Each selection will present additional resources from the library.
If you would like to see additional resources, guides, reports, etc., or to send us resources that we may be missing, please reach out to the ADAPT team directly using the contact information at the bottom of the page.
Derechos Digitales, 2021
The article analyzes the draft law on the protection of personal data and remarks its importance for Ecuador. It also contains notes on the development of data protection laws in the Latin America region.
SIT Graduate Institute, 2019
This report conducts a case study on digital privacy in Ecuador, how it is protected and how protections should be improved. It begins by presenting the lack of proper privacy regulation, discusses different cases of data breach and lists surveillance technologies deployed across the country. Then, it analyzes local jurisprudence.
APC, Access Now, & Derechos Digitales, 2020
An open letter from CSOs to the National Assembly of Ecuador regarding the data protection bill that was finally approved in 2021. In the letter, assembly members are asked to vote in favor of the law, which will ensure a more privacy-friendly legal framework.
Revista de Derecho Foro, 2018
This article aims to analyze the legal shortcomings of the draft law on data protection in order to correct them, and propose the development of a law that is synchronized with the legislation of other countries, and the technical reality of information technologies in Ecuador. The article also has a historical account of the privacy regulation process in the country.
APC, 2021
The article analyzes the draft law on the protection of personal data and points out that although it is necessary to approve it, it needs some modifications, so that the protection of individuals is the final goal.
Centro de Autonomía Digital, 2019
The article introduces the "Mumble and Tails" tool that allows you to increase the level of privacy when using video call applications that work with VoIP technology. The threat model and the proposed solution for it is explained in the first section. The use of the proposed solution is explained in a practical way in the second section of the article. Finally, the conclusions and recommendations are presented at the end.
AEPD, 2019
Open letter to the government on the occasion of a massive data leak that occurred due to the responsibility of a public entity. This fact (the data leak) was one of the reasons why the discussions to pass the data protection law began to move faster.