Katiza Rodriguez
Internation Policy Fellow
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)


Ms Rodríguez is international policy fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, (EPIC) based in Lima, Perú. She concentrates on comparative policy and legal aspects of privacy, data protection and digital copyright issues in Latin America. She is associate editor of EPIC´s and Privacy International “Privacy and Human Rights Report (PHR) 2005 and 2006”, the most comprehensive survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. This year's edition includes reports of over 75 countries, including new reports for the Middle East, Latin America, and cyberspace. The report also finds continuing public opposition to video surveillance, workplace monitoring, and privacy-infringing corporate practices, and features new topics on biometric identification, Internet advertising, and location privacy.

She is responsible for liaising with data protection authorities, policymakers, consumer and civil society organizations in Spain and Latin America on privacy, security and data protection issues. She has participated at the Data Privacy Sub Group of the Electronic Commerce Group of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, (APEC), The Ibero-American Data Protection Network and the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners meetings.

Katitza is a Board Member of Computer Professional For Social Responsibility and serves on the Advisory Board of Privacy International. She organized serveral workshops of privacy and secure communications for Human Rights NGOs in Mexico, Venezuela, Perú and Colombia. She is also Spanish editor of the Digital Security and Privacy project entailing the creation and translation of literary content for the Security edition of NGO-in-a-box. Previously, she was past Vice President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), Founder and Board Secretary of CPSR-Peru.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lima, with studies in E-business Project Managment at Escuela Superior de Administración de Negocios – ESAN (Perú) and DiploFoundation Internet Governance Capacity Building Advance Programme 2007.



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