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Time to deliver answers: An open letter to Just Eat Takeaway, Uber and Deliveroo

12 organisations across the EU and the UK are calling on food delivery platforms to respect their workforce, and improve the transparency and explainability around the algorithms they use.

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PI submission to EDPB on AI models

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is preparing an opinion on AI models, following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission. This opinion is expected to cover how personal data is processed at various stages of the training and operation of an AI model and what legal basis can be relied on for that processing.

PI submitted its views to the Board ahead of it releasing its opinion.

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Travellers’ surveillance: The role of the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Programme

In this briefing, we identify the most significant concerns on the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Programme (CTTP), and put forward a range of recommendations to mitigate some of the human rights risks associated with the surveillance of travellers.

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PI write to UK MPs following a debate in parliament on police use of facial recognition technology

Following a debate in the UK parliament on police use of facial recognition technology we wrote to the MPs who intervened calling on them to expedite this matter further by tabling questions to members of the government.

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UK MPs ignore concerned constituents questions about Facial Recognition Technology

In this piece, we unpack the responses received from UK Members of Parliament between November 2023 and June 2024 following the initial launch of our campaign “The End of Privacy in Public”, and discuss the current state of regulation of FRT in the UK. In doing so, we reiterate our call for FRT’s use to be effectively regulated.

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PI’s briefing: A critical examination of facial recognition implementation in educational spaces

The expansion of facial recognition in educational spaces raises serious human rights concerns, urging states to ban the technology and implementers to stop using it.

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Privacy International's response to the College of Policing consultation on the 'ethical use of data and technologies guidance'

Privacy International (PI) provided a written response to the College of Policing consultation on the 'ethical use of data and technologies guidance' through which they sought feedback on two new authorised professional practices (APP) on data ethics and data-driven technologies.

News & Analysis

Especialista da ONU recomenda a proibição do reconhecimento facial nas escolas.

A tecnologia de reconhecimento facial prejudica a educação das crianças e deve ser banida das instituições educacionais, diz especialista da ONU.

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UN expert recommends ban on facial recognition in schools.

Facial recognition technology harms children’s education, and should be banned from educational institutions, UN Expert says.

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The rise of the Surveillance Databases

Surveillance databases are on the rise all around us and with them comes a wider array of issues. Here we begin to unpack these concerns and discuss some of the prominent global drivers of this trend.

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Protecting personal data during elections – the Council of Europe's new guidelines on the processing of personal data for the purposes of voter registration and authentication

PI's analysis of the Council of Europe's Guidelines on processing of personal data for voter registration and authentication, which complement a previous set of recommendations outlining the safeguards for the Processing of Personal Data by and for Political Campaigns.

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Elections Technology - Our Recommendations #1: General Recommendations, BVR, EVID and Results Transmission

When it comes to elections around the world, we find ourselves in a terrain that is more and more populated by digital technologies, which have an increasingly critical impact upon the realisation of democracy. Digital technologies used in the context of elections offer new opportunities to support

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Decoding vertical tech integrations: why do they matter?

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.

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PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance providing the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance.

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Privacy International's response to ILO questionnaire on realizing decent work in the platform economy

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is developing a new legal standard to support decent work in the platform economy. Privacy International has submitted its views on the risks to the privacy, autonomy and decency of workers posed by the use of automated decision-making. This is with the aim of informing the forthcoming discussion on the standard at the 2025 and 2026 International Labour Conferences.

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Privacy International’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education

Privacy International’s submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education for their forthcoming report to the General Assembly in October 2024 on the theme of Artificial intelligence in education and its human rights-based use at the service of the advancement of the right to education.