InterSecLab is a transfeminist laboratory specializing in digital forensics and research, focused on combating political and targeted digital surveillance carried out by states against activists, human rights defenders and social movements, especially in Latin America. Founded by digital security experts and activists from the Global South, InterSecLab is committed to defending human rights and promoting digital autonomy for groups and individuals targeted by surveillance. The lab combines device forensics with active research into state and corporate surveillance.
Its mission is to stimulate and strengthen digital autonomy and protection by providing a transfeminist perspective on criticizing and confronting surveillance directed at human rights defenders, activists, leaders and investigative journalists.
Among its objectives, it aims to collaborate in the production of knowledge and access to information about the opaque ecosystem of surveillance, its agents, including the State and its strategies. It aims (otherwise) to offer the field of struggle for social justice easier access to important and still restricted
(little offered) technological services in Brazil, such as digital forensic analysis itself.
What sets InterSecLab apart is its unique combination of technical expertise, a deep commitment to social justice and a critical stance on oppressive and colonial structures strongly present in the technological world as well.
When carrying out its work InterSecLab seeks to expand the capacity of the field of protection of defenders, activists and communities to respond to the context of violence and violation of rights through technologies, joining forces in the search for transformations
