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To Reduce Facebook’s Harms to Teens, Target its Data-Hungry Business Model

Companies like Instagram want to understand who we are. But their extensive and invasive data collection is having devastating consequences.

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Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

Over the last 20 years, vast data-intensive systems were deployed in Afghanistan by national and foreign actors. As we highlight some of these systems we present our concerns as to what will happen to them.

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How one TECNO phone is putting users' privacy and security at risk

Privacy International bought a TECNO smartphone, and we discovered serious concerns with the phone’s operating system and pre-installed apps.

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An unhealthy diet of targeted ads: an investigation in to how the diet industry exploits our data

Companies selling diet programmes are using tests to lure users. Those tests encourage users to share sensitive personal data, including about their mental health. But what happens to the data? We investigated to find out.

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How a company illegally exploited the data of 14 million mothers and babies

If you’re in the UK you may know Bounty as the company that distribute packs of samples to pregnant women at midwife appointments. They’re also the ones that were found to have illegally shared the data of over 14 million mums & babies with 39 companies.

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Perspectives on the harms of unregulated fintech

This articles explores the use of digital loan Apps in Philippines and Kenya and highlights some of the common concerns that emanate from the unregulated use of such Apps.

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