Digital security is an area of comprehensive protection that is ever more important. PBI has seen how digital security incidents increase every year and, in parallel, human rights defenders’ concerns about their digital self-protection is also on the rise.
Concern from Colombian human rights defenders is not baseless and cannot be disregarded. Scandals appear periodically about the abuse of the state surveillance apparatus. One example, is the case of Laura Sarabia and Armando Benedetti. Former Chief of Staff, Laura Sarabia, and former ambassador to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, were the protagonists of a tangled case of wiretapping that ended with the dismissal of both individuals from their respective positions. In other cases, it is the State that suffers a cyber-attack, putting the data of millions of citizens at risk.