Advocacy

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'. 

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.

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.

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.

The UK government has used its surveillance to issue a Technical Capability notice to Apple to hand over encrypted iCloud data, threatening the privacy and security of users all over the world. We are demanding transparency. 

Privacy International, Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), ICJ-Kenya, Haki Na Sheria Initiative and STOPAIDS submitted a joint stakeholder report to the 49th session of the Universal Periodic Review regarding Kenya's review. 

Our joint submission raised issues regarding elections, health and economic and social justice.