Privacy International, the European Disability Forum, and a Finnish Disability forum representative issue statement warning that Finland's new social welfare legal reforms pose threats to human rights, including the right to privacy.
AI in counter terrorism drives intrusive surveillance and unreliable risk scoring that can wrongly target individuals. Strong safeguards are essential because these systems amplify privacy harms and discriminatory outcomes.
Privacy International submitted a response to the UK Home Office consultation on a legal framework for law enforcement use of use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies.
Privacy International provided input to the forthcoming thematic report of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association on the 'Impact of digital and AI-assisted surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects'.
After the UK data protection authority founded that the UK Government’s GPS tagging of migrants arriving to the UK by small boats and other “irregular” routes was unlawful, PI continued to monitor and research the Home Office's policies and practices relating to the GPS tagging of migrants. In this piece we present our findings.
The UK parliamentary committee’s report following their investigation into electronic monitoring and GPS tagging questions its use in the context of immigration and highlights the ethical and legal concerns of this practice, as raised by PI.
Privacy International and global allies present their proposals to improve key provisions of the draft ILO Convention supplemented by a Recommendation concerning decent work in the platform economy.
From the Amazon rainforests to subsaharan Africa, tech companies seek to expand their dominance by investing in connectivity infrastructure. While this has certainly brought some benefits, it also raises concerns about big tech's expansion into new territories.
Our submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education report on safety as a precondition for its full realisation highlighted the negative impacts of surveillance technologies in education.
Our submission to forthcoming report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights discusses the challenges and risks with regard to discrimination and unequal enjoyment of the right to privacy associated with the collection and processing of data.
Privacy International (PI) contributed to the call for inputs of the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights for a Position Paper on the Human Rights Impacts of Using Artificial Intelligence in Countering Terrorism.
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases.
On 10 March 2025, Privacy International (PI) attended the 32nd Session of the Committee of the Convention on the the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) in Geneva, and participated in a private briefing to the Committee on the European Union (EU). As part of PI's work promoting
On 21 February 2025, Privacy International, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Carter Center convened an expert roundtable to examine the international human rights implications of digital technologies in elections.
Privacy International and other civil society organisations are calling on the ILO to protect workers from algorithmic harms by adopting legally binding standards on decent work in the platform economy.
PI raises questions regarding the lack of adequate data protection safeguards, algorithmic bias and discrimination, as well as shortcomings in meaningful human control and judgment.
