Hiperderecho

Hiperderecho is Peru's principal digital rights organization — a non-profit civil association founded in 2013 in Lima on the thesis that technology is a tool for social liberation. Operating under the motto "Libertades + Redes" (Freedoms + Networks), Hiperderecho works across five areas: public policy advocacy, strategic litigation, activism, research, and educational training. Through a combination of ISP accountability reports, civic technology tools, and public-interest litigation, Hiperderecho occupies the Andean slot in the Latin American digital rights field that Derechos Digitales anchors regionally from Chile — translating complex internet-governance and AI-policy contests into documented analysis, litigation pressure, and public engagement accessible to Peruvian civil society.

Founding and structure

Hiperderecho was established in 2013 as a Peruvian non-profit civil association based in Lima's San Isidro district. Miguel Morachimo served as Executive Director from the organization's founding through September 2022 — an eight-year tenure in which Hiperderecho built its ISP accountability series, civic tech tool portfolio, and international partnerships. In September 2022, Dilmar Villena Fernández Baca, who had previously served as Legal Director, assumed the Executive Director role; Morachimo transitioned to an honorary external advisory capacity. The current team includes Lucía León Pacheco as Research Director, Noe Taza as Technology Director, Elizabeth Mendoza Maldonado as Legal Coordinator for Litigation, and Rubiela Gaspar as Legal Coordinator for Public Policy. The board is chaired by Pedro Muñoz del Rio, with Miguel Sánchez Flores as Vice President and Alejandra Alayza as a member. Hiperderecho is a member of GNI's Civil Society Constituency and a participant in the Al Sur regional coalition.

¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? — ISP accountability

Hiperderecho's longest-running transparency initiative is the ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?) report series, launched in 2015 in collaboration with Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The reports evaluate Peruvian Internet service providers across seven criteria: whether they publish privacy policies, issue transparency reports, notify users of government requests for their data, require judicial authorization before handing data to authorities, publicly commit to user rights, implement digital security practices, and publish law enforcement guidelines. The third report in 2020 found stronger commitments overall but persistent imbalances between carriers. The 2022 edition documented that two of Peru's top ISPs had improved transparency practices while two competitors lagged, characterizing the field as one of imbalanced commitment across the sector. This report series made Hiperderecho the primary accountability counterpart to Peruvian ISPs in the annual EFF-coordinated regional review cycle.

Surveillance, cybercrime, and advocacy tools

Hiperderecho has maintained sustained advocacy against surveillance legislation since its founding. The organization opposed Peru's 2013 cybercrime law for provisions that chilled internet freedom and undermined access-to-information obligations, and has submitted repeated reform recommendations to Congress on surveillance law and cybercrime statutes. Through the GNI–Internews Fellowship Program, Hiperderecho developed the Error404 Database — an online resource documenting unlawful blocking of streaming platforms by Peruvian ISPs since 2018 — providing the first systematic public record of content censorship at the network layer in Peru. The Ciudadanía Bajo Ataque (Citizenship Under Attack) project documented how state and private actors use technology against human rights defenders. On gender-based digital violence, Hiperderecho's Tecnoresistencias project won first place in the 2019 National Competition for Best Practices Against Violence Against Women. The organization also jointly submitted testimony with Privacy International to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the intersection of government surveillance and women's rights in Peru.

Civic technology tools

Hiperderecho has paired its advocacy work with civic tech infrastructure designed to reduce barriers to government accountability. Proyectosdeley.pe, launched in 2013–2014, compiles and presents Peruvian Congressional legislative initiatives in a searchable, publicly accessible format, updated daily — the project won the 2014 National Digital Democracy Award in the Civil Society category. Pidela.info enables citizens to submit legally valid requests for public information from any government entity, with all requests and responses archived and publicly visible, operationalizing Peru's access-to-information law. Perú Leaks, developed with seven Peruvian media outlets, provides an encrypted whistleblowing platform using PGP and Tor technology for secure, anonymous source protection.

AI governance

Hiperderecho has made artificial intelligence governance a growing program area. In 2024, the organization jointly submitted human-rights-based recommendations with Access Now on Peru's first draft AI regulation. The final regulation, published September 2025 — described by Hiperderecho as the first broad AI regulation in Latin America, classifying AI systems by risk level and requiring human oversight for high-impact decisions — incorporated some but not all of these recommendations. Hiperderecho's October 2025 analysis identified a central implementation gap: Peru's data governance maturity stands at 1.88 on a 5-point scale, with only 11% of government ministries having a Data Governance Officer and fewer than half having published open datasets, creating a structural disconnect between the regulation's requirements and the government's capacity to implement them. In March 2026, Hiperderecho delivered oral testimony at UN stakeholder consultations for the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, pressing for algorithmic transparency standards that go beyond source-code access to enable understanding of automated-decision impacts, urgent research on AI's environmental footprint, and greater Latin American representation on the UN's AI Scientific Panel, where only 3 of 40 members come from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Place in the movement

Hiperderecho is the corpus entry representing the Andean / Peruvian node of the Latin American digital rights field — a field in which Derechos Digitales operates as the regional coordinator and anchor. Where Derechos Digitales runs cross-country programs and regional research, Hiperderecho focuses on the Peruvian institutional landscape: its ISP accountability series speaks directly to the OSIPTEL regulatory environment, its civic tech tools target the specific architecture of Peru's Congress and access-to-information regime, and its AI governance work engages Peru's national AI law and strategy processes. The combination of accountability reporting, litigation, and civic infrastructure tools distinguishes Hiperderecho within the Peruvian context from both pure-advocacy and pure-litigation organizations. Its international partnerships — with Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the ISP reports, and with Privacy International on surveillance — embed Peru in the global digital rights accountability ecosystem while keeping the primary institutional target domestic.