Our Campaigns

We run strategic and tactical campaigns across the world to fight against corporate and state surveillance and data misuse, to call for new safeguards, and to fight for protections.

Below are some of our more recent campaigns. To see our previous work, please go to our Impact section.

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Man taking a picture with his phone

Privacy shouldn't be a luxury

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Photo by Julián Gentilezza on Unsplash

Police unlocking your data in the cloud

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Empowering people through advertising transparency

Empowering people through advertising transparency

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Challenging the Drivers of Surveillance

Challenging the Drivers of Surveillance

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Josefin from unspash

No Body’s Business But Mine

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depression graphic man

Your mental health for sale

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internet of things

IoT in Court

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Trade

Our data is not for trade

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Cybersecurity

Security should protect people, not exploit them

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Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

Demanding identity systems on our terms

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Noun strength

Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project

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BB pays your benefits

When Big Brother Pays Your Benefits

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Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

When Social Media makes you a target

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White House (Pete Souza) Maison Blanche (Pete Souza) [Public domain]

Scrutinising the global counter-terrorism agenda

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Tom Barrett on Unsplash

Exposing new frontiers of identity

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Gustave Deghilage_11 June 2014

Protecting migrants at borders and beyond

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video title card

When Your Data Becomes Political

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app analysis

Investigating Apps interactions with Facebook

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policy spying on the public

Neighbourhood Watched: exposing the technology that UK police forces are using to spy on the public

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tell companies

Tell companies to stop exploiting your data!

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Secret surveillance networks

Secret surveillance networks

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The Keys to Data Protection

Enhancing data protection safeguards

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Uncovering the Hidden Data Ecosystem

Uncovering the Hidden Data Ecosystem

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phone search

Digital stop and search: how the UK police can secretly download everything from your mobile phone

Previous Campaigns

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harvesting

Holding Facebook to account for Cambridge Analytica

Active Legal Campaigns

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European Court room

10 Human Rights Organisations v. United Kingdom (UK Bulk Interception / UK-US Intelligence Sharing)

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South African flag

amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism and Sole challenge (South Africa)

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Association Confraternelle de la Press Judiciare v. France Submissions

Association Confraternelle de la Press Judiciaire and 11 Other Applications v. France

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Breyer v. Germany Submissions

Breyer v. Germany

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gchq

Bulk Personal Datasets & Bulk Communications Data challenge

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Image data broker

Challenge to the hidden data ecosystem (Acxiom, Oracle, Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad, Equifax, Experian)

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CJEU logo

FDN and others v. France (French data retention)

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trojan_horse_replica

GFF Challenge to use of government spyware (Germany)

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man data

MI5 ungoverned spaces challenge

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image

Nubian Rights Forum and others v. The Attorney General (Kenya)

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GCHQ Hack slide

Privacy International and Others v. United Kingdom (UK Government Hacking)

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Privacy International et al. v. FBI et al. (US Hacking FOIA)

Privacy International et al. v. FBI et al. (US Hacking FOIA)

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European Court of Justice entrance

Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others (Case C-623/17)

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Privacy International v. Information Commissioner's Office (UK IMSI Catcher FOIA)

Privacy International v. Information Commissioner's Office (UK IMSI Catcher FOIA)

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NSA

Privacy International v. National Security Agency, Office of the Director of National intelligence, Department of State, and National Archives and Records Administration (US Five Eyes FOIA)

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radomes

Privacy International v. United Kingdom (UK Five Eyes FOIA)

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CJEU

Tele2-Watson joined cases (ECJ)

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hacking

The Queen on the application of Privacy International v. Investigatory Powers Tribunal (UK General Hacking Warrants)

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Third Direction

Third Direction

Previous Legal Interventions

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Smart Meter Cartoon

Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville

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hmrc

Privacy International v. The Commissioner for HM Revenue and Customs

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AvFBI

Apple v. FBI

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Ismayilova v Azerbaijan

Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan

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FBI Hacking

United States v. Levin, United States v. Werdene, United States v. Eure, United States v. Tippens (FBI Hacking)

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United States v. Microsoft Corp.

United States v. Microsoft Corp. (Law Enforcement Cross-Border Data Access)

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Catt v. the United Kingdom

Catt v. the United Kingdom