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PI together with Worker Info Exchange (WIE) and the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) are challenging the surveillance techniques deployed by some of the biggest companies in the gig economy sector.

Our legal action against a company that collects photos of you and your loved ones online.

We, with over 40 other organisations, are asking the European Union to ban mass biometric surveillance. If you’re a European Union citizen, join us in signing our European Citizen’s Initiative.

If 1 million of us step up - we can force the European Commission to take on biometric mass surveillance properly

Investigating brands using Facebook for advertising, exposing how difficult it is to understand how our data's used and demanding Facebook make it easier to exercise our rights

Google wants to know everything about you. It already holds a massive trove of data about you, but it now also wants to get its hands on your health data too. We don’t think any company should be allowed to accumulate this much intimate information about us. This is why we’re trying to stop its merger with Fitbit and saying ’NOT ON OUR WATCH’!

Buying a brand new low-cost phone can leave you with an outdated operating system and exploitative apps.

Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored. 

We look at how apps are exposing peoples' activities and behaviours to Facebook.

Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.
 

In March 2018 the Guardian newspaper revealed that Cambridge Analytica was able to harvest data from Facebook -- and PI responded.