Russia and Central Asia

Reports and Analysis

Long Read

Telegram from Russia: compliance, & complicity in the Russian government’s attack on privacy

Telegram from Russia: compliance and complicity in the Russian government’s attack on privacy

If you operate an internet company in Russia, you aren’t necessarily surprised to one day open the door to someone, grasping in one hand a bundle of wires and in the other a letter from a government agency demanding access to your servers, with a black box wedged under one arm. Internet companies in

Report

Private Interests: Monitoring Central Asia

“Private Interests: Monitoring Central Asia” is a 96-page report detailing its findings from an extensive investigation into electronic surveillance technologies in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The report brings together the findings of PI's team of investigative

News

17th July 2019

#FacePalm: FaceApp's Terms of Use

7th June 2018

PI Sends Anti-Surveillance Kit to Gareth Southgate to Stop Rival Managers spying on England tactics

1st December 2017

Behind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central Asia

11th December 2015

Zakharov v Russia: A refresher on how far Europe has come

15th January 2015

Behind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central Asia

20th November 2014

Privacy International uncovers widespread surveillance throughout Central Asia, exposes role of Israeli companies

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Moscow quarantine enforcement app creates enforcement problems

Thousands of Muscovites ordered to download a hastily-developed app to enforce their quarantine report that they have been wrongly geolocated and fined and that the app has trapped them into compliance criteria that are impossible to meet. The app, which demands an exceptionally broad range of

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Our Advocacy

@ Social Media: Protect Your Users From Border Surveillance!

Privacy International has today sent letters to leading social media platforms to ask what they're doing to protect their users' from dangerous surveillance by government immigration authorities. The letter comes following the implementation of plans by US authorities to require nearly all visa