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A legal ruling from the UK puts the onus back on Clearview to change its ways, while also raising important questions about the cross-border application of laws that regulate tech companies. 

Big Tech's walled gardens can keep users locked in through switching costs rather than superior service. While the EU's Digital Markets Act is forcing platforms open, interoperability creates its own privacy and security trade-offs that need careful handling.

AI systems like Mythos make vulnerability discovery faster and more scalable, raising urgent privacy questions about who governs access to powerful tools that could expose centralised stores of personal data.

As governments rush to adopt artificial intelligence in public services, Privacy International asks who controls these systems, how people’s data is protected, and whether public services are becoming private black boxes.

Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation as well as raising privacy concerns, particularly for minoritised groups. 

Football in the UK is more than a game. Stadiums are spaces of community, identity and expression. Our new report looks at what happens when facial recognition enters that space.

Descubra el Juego de cartas sobre tecnología, datos y elecciones  de Privacy International, que le permitirá explorar cuestiones clave como las siguientes:

• ♥ Corazones: Por qué es importante la protección de datos durante el ciclo electoral
• ♦ Diamantes: Qué tecnologías se emplean para gestionar las elecciones
• ♠ Picas: Qué normativa es aplicable a los partidos y demás agentes relevantes
• ♣ Tréboles: Qué papel desempeñan internet y los medios sociales en las elecciones y las campañas políticas