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Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds

The “EU Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa” (EUTF for Africa) isn’t exactly headline news (and nor does it exactly roll off the tongue), but its influence is vast and will be felt for decades to come for millions of people

Documents disclosed to Privacy International reveal how the European Union has been using aid funds to finance the development of biometric identity systems in countries in Africa as part of its response to migration, and highlight urgent concerns.

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Borders Without Borders: How the EU is Exporting Surveillance in Bid to Outsource its Border Controls

Documents obtained by Privacy International (PI) detail how EU agencies ‘outsource’ border controls to neighbouring countries.

The European Union (EU) is the world’s largest donor of development aid, an instrumental supporter of democracies and peace around the world, and a powerful global force for reigning-in big tech and other exploitative industries.

But since the 2015 migration crisis and with populist anti

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Borders Without Borders: How the EU is Exporting Surveillance in Bid to Outsource its Border Controls

Documents obtained by Privacy International (PI) detail how EU agencies ‘outsource’ border controls to neighbouring countries.

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All roads lead to Palantir

A review of how the data analytics company has embedded itself throughout the UK.

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UK data regulator takes enforcement action to rein in data brokers' use of people's personal data

In a landmark decision that shines a light on widespread data protecton failings by the entire data broker industry, the ICO has today taken enforcement action against Experian, based in part on a complaint PI made in 2018.

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Towers of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

Press release: Ruling by EU’s highest court finds that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy, even in the context of national security

Today the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the UK, French and Belgian bulk data collection or retention regimes (often referred to as ‘mass surveillance’) must be brought within EU law.

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Fighting the Global Covid-19 Power-Grab

In the rush to respond to Covid-19 and its aftermath, government and companies are exploiting data

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Surveillance Disclosures Show Urgent Need for Reforms to EU Aid Programmes

Revealed: The EU Training Regime Teaching Neighbours How to Spy

(Questions/Réponses) La plus haute Cour de justice de l’UE a jugé que les régimes de surveillance de masse du Royaume-Uni, de la France et de la Belgique doivent respecter la vie privée

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Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds

Borders Without Borders: How the EU is Exporting Surveillance in Bid to Outsource its Border Controls

Borders Without Borders: How the EU is Exporting Surveillance in Bid to Outsource its Border Controls

All roads lead to Palantir

UK data regulator takes enforcement action to rein in data brokers' use of people's personal data

Press release: Ruling by EU’s highest court finds that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy, even in the context of national security

Featured Campaigns

Fighting the Global Covid-19 Power-Grab