Explore a selection of my publications, press appearances, and recorded presentations. As a policy analyst, I worked doing regulatory, privacy, and policy impact assessments, AI governance guidelines, advocacy strategy design, training sessions, and stakeholder engagement facilitation.
Publications
Arroyo, V. (2025, April 30th) Emerging Uses of Neurotechnology.
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Aljizawi, N., Anstis S., Michaelsen M., Arroyo, V., Baran S.,
Bikbulatova M., Böcü G., Franco C., Geybulla A., Iliqud M.,
Lawford N., LaFlèche É., Lim G., Meletti L., Mirza M., Panday Z.,
Posno C., Reichert Z., Taye B., and Yang A.. (2024, December).
No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes
of Digital Transnational Repression. The Citizen Lab Report No. 180,
University of Toronto
Arroyo, V., Carter, E., Karanja, M., Robertson, K., Dirks, E,. (August 2024)
Citizen Lab Submission to the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) on universal birth registration and the use of
digital technologies. The Citizen Lab.
Arroyo, V. (2024, May 1). Policy Recommendations to enhance
the International Debate on the impacts of Neurotechnologies:
Insights from an epistemic community analysis.
Arroyo, V. (2024, April). Charting the International Influence of
Neuroright(s) Advocacy: Insights from an Epistemic
Community Analysis.
Robertson, K., & Arroyo, V. (2024, February 16). Submission to the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on draft guidance
for processing biometrics. The Citizen Lab.
Arroyo, V., Hess, K., Grünbaum, N., & Ribeiro, G. (2023, April). What
specific measures could the US, the EU and China take in order
to foster and facilitate cross-border data flows? SciencesPo
Keita, A., Soulier, A., Arroyo, V., & Dupuis, M. (2022, December).
Decoding Biases in the GPT-3 Language Model.
Arroyo, V. (2022, August 3). The Jamaica NIDS digital identification
program: A cautionary tale. Access Now.
Pisanu, G., Arroyo, V., Ucciferri, L., Ferreyra, E., Moraes, T., Laranjeira,
J. R., Costa Almeida, E. C., Fellows Dourado, F., Reis, C., Rocha da Silva,
F., Finlay, J., & Córdova-Páez, A. (2021, August 10). Surveillance Tech
in Latin America. Made abroad, deployed at home. Access Now.
Arroyo, V., Jit Singh Chima, R., & Tackett, C. (2021, April 1). Protocol
for exclusion: Why COVID-19 vaccine “passports” threaten human rights.
Access Now.
Arroyo, V. (2021) ¿Es posible generar más competencia en el mercado
de plataformas digitales y al mismo tiempo garantizar la protección
de datos personales que le conciernen a los usuarios? : análisis de
tres propuestas regulatorias en la era del Big Data. Thesis. Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú
Arroyo, V. (2019) Guía Básica sobre Datos Personales para Bolivia.
Access Now.
Yeo, A., Arroyo, V. (2017, April 25) You Don’t Change The World By
Thinking like Everyone Else. Internet Society.
Arroyo, V., (2016, December 23). A youth view on the debates
of the IGF. Telefónica
Press
Al Jazeera (2019) Venezuela shuts down Internet amid protests.
France 24 (2021) Videovigilancia en América Latina: informe detalla cómo
gobiernos incrementan su uso.
MIT Technology Review (2020) Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism
by Richard Kemeny.
Voz de America (2021) WhatsApp pospone cambios en su política de
privacidad tras el éxodo de millones de usuarios by Fabiola Chambi
El Comercio (2021) Cara y Sello: ¿Son las redes sociales un peligro
para la democracia? [Opinión]
Coda Story (2021) Jamaica is poised to end data privacy
by Erica Hellerstein.
The Sociable (2020) Emotion, gender prediction tech should be
banned from Brazil’s metro: NGO testifies
FayerWayer (2019) La opresión y la censura en Venezuela también
viven en internet [FW Opinión]
Slate (2019) The Venezuelan Crisis Also Lives Online
Jugo de Caigua (2022) ¿Puede la tecnología fortalecer
la democracia?
Radio APLP Bolivia. (2019) Entrevista a Verónica Arroyo
Cadena A (2021) Entrevista en Todo a Pulmon show de TV
sobre datos personales
Videos and Podcast
Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at the American
University (2024) Neurotechnologies on Human Rights:
Why Neurodata is the New Frontier in Data Protection
Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression (2023) Vigilancia y
periodismo: nuevos retos para la prensa en una sociedad en
la que nunca estamos solas
Reach Alliance (2022) Reach Symposium Day 2 -Reach Roundtable:
How to Responsibly Use Data to Achieve the SDGs
CPDP Latam (2021) Room 2 – Facial Recognition Technology is
Binary, People are not: A Human Rights Analysis
Direitos na Rede (2020) Proteção de dados e participação
social – O futuro da ANPD e seu conselho multissetorial
CURIOUS Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (2020)
Reconocimiento facial el peligro de que nos vean la cara
Diálogos UE-Brasil (2020) Webinar “Data Protection Regulations
and the fight against COVID19″
Verónica Arroyo 