Targeting Governments
Achieved Results
Governments reform intrusive surveillance practices and develop strong safeguards
We expose the over-reaching surveillance regimes of governments and statutory bodies, as well as how they outsource and work closely with the corporate sector in both developing surveillance capabilities and sharing our data. We litigate and make complaints to regulators and data protection authorities, to hold state bodies to account.
War and conflict must not dominate our societies and technologies.
We’re facing the end of privacy in public, because of the unchecked rise of facial recognition
Students shouldn’t have to trade their right to privacy in order to access their right to an
Fighting the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK's 'hostile environment'
The United Nations have initiated a process to negotiate an international treaty on cybercrime (more
The 'Free to Protest' campaign highlights the range of surveillance tools that the police can use to
We all need to understand the range of surveillance tools that police forces around the world can
We, with over 40 other organisations, are asking the European Union to ban mass biometric
This was a campaign to take action with us and write to Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary, to
The Home Office is currently developing a UK-wide police 'super-database' containing a vast amount
Governments are secretly collaborating with private companies. Here is why PI is concerned about
UK local authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, as
Our data stored in the cloud is increasingly sought after by law enforcement agencies. Increasingly
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Increasingly counter-terrorism strategies and policies are decided at the international level, most
The ways in which we're called to identify ourselves is changing, and leaving us open to
Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal
From facial recognition to social media monitoring, from remote hacking to the use of mobile
Rising concerns around austerity, transparency, efficiency and financial management have fed into a
Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian
Trade, and the people who negotiate trade agreements, fundamentally misunderstand data, privacy and
We ran a campaign to improve the UK's Data Protection Act 2018.
The use of ‘mobile phone extraction’ tools enables police forces to download all of the content and
Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance
