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

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

Advocacy

Data Protection Still on the Agenda in Kenya

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Advocacy

The time has finally come: Kenya is seizing the opportunity to protect individuals and their data

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Advocacy

Pay No Attention To That Man Behind the Curtain: Exposing and Challenging Government Hacking for Surveillance

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain: Exposing and Challenging Government Hacking for Surveillance
Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in Nigeria

The Right to Privacy in Nigeria
Advocacy

Advocating for Ugandans to be protected by the highest data protection safeguards

Advocating for Ugandans to be protected by the highest data protection safeguards
Advocacy

What Policy Makers Can Learn About Cyber Security From Thornsec

What policymakers can learn about cyber security from Thornsec
Advocacy

Letter to Cambridge Analytica on 2017 Kenya Election

Kenya ballot
Advocacy

There Is Too Much At Stake For This To Be A PR Stunt

There is too much at stake for this to be a PR stunt
Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in South Africa

The Right to Privacy in South Africa
Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in Namibia

The Right to Privacy in Namibia
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The Right to Privacy in Zimbabwe

The Right to Privacy in Zimbabwe
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The Right to Privacy in Uganda

The Right to Privacy in Uganda
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The Right to Privacy in Morocco

The Right to Privacy in Morocco
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Educational and Explanatory

"Betrayed by an app she had never heard of" - How TrueCaller is endangering journalists

Case Study
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Reports and Analysis

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Data Privacy Week: Privacy in Public Spaces

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Data Privacy Week: Confronting the Corporate Gaze

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Data Privacy Week: Exposing Harms, Fighting Back

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Perception Survey on Communication Surveillance and Privacy of Human Rights Defenders in Kenya

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Investigating Privacy Implications Of Biometric Voter Registration In Kenya’s 2017 Election Process

Investigating Privacy Implications Of Biometric Voter Registration In Kenya’s 2017 Election Process
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Further questions on Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2017 Kenyan Elections and Privacy International's investigations

Further questions on Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2017 Kenyan Elections and Privacy International's investigations
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International Women's Day 2018 - A Day in the Life of Women, As Told by Their Data

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Surveillance And The City: Turning Urban Centres Into A Panopticon

Surveillance and the City
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Watching The Watchers: Accessing and Challenging Control Over Our Data

Access and Control
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Texas Media Company Hired By Trump Created Kenyan President's Viral 'Anonymous' Attack Campaign Against Rival, New Investigation Reveals

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Report

Fintech: Privacy and Identity In the New Data-Intensive Financial Sector

Fintech: Privacy and Identity in the New Data-Intensive Financial Sector
Long Read

New Documents Reveal Kenya's Worrying Attempts to Monitor the Internet

New Documents Reveal Kenya's Worrying Attempts To Monitor The Internet
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Track, Capture, Kill: Inside Communications Surveillance and Counterterrorism In Kenya

Track, Capture, Kill: Inside Communications Surveillance and Counterterrorism In Kenya
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Switching Hats: Why South Africa’s Surveillance Industry Needs Scrutiny

Switching hats: why South Africa’s surveillance industry needs scrutiny
Report

International Women's Day 2016: Initiative of the Privacy International Network

International Women's Day 2016: Initiative of the Privacy International Network
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News and Updates

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Privacy International at Rightscon 2019

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News & Analysis

Civil society achieves change, but risks still remain in Kenya's new biometric ID system

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Side Event - Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age

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Partner Update

Statement: R2K and PI join amaBhungane RICA challenge as amicus curiae

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News & Analysis

A Very Secret Ballot: A Case Study on the Electoral Process in Kenya

A Very Secret Ballot: A Case Study on the Electoral Process in Kenya
News & Analysis

Lone Voices Leading the Way: How Civil Society in Africa is Successfully Countering Government Narratives on Cyber Security 

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Press statement: Privacy International thanks Edward Snowden for his courageous actions five years ago today

Edward Snowden
Press release

It’s time for the Prime Minister to fix shockingly lax intelligence sharing arrangements with other governments

Abdel Hakim Belhaj
News & Analysis

Privacy International at the 62nd Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR)

Privacy International at the 62nd Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR)
News & Analysis

A day in the life of Mercy, a 28-year-old cis woman living in Nairobi

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News

Privacy International at the Internet Freedom Festival 2018

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Press release

Online surveillance becomes a priority for the Human Rights Council, as Pakistan joins the wrong side of the debate

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News & Analysis

Business As Usual? How Western Data Analytics Companies Are Peddling Fear In Fragile Democracies

Business As Usual? How Western Data Analytics Companies Are Peddling Fear In Fragile Democracies
Partner Update

Forthcoming research investigates whether biometric voter register was misappropriated for political campaigns in Kenya

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Press Release: Texas Media Company Hired By Trump Is Behind Kenyan President's Viral 'Anonymous' Attack Campaign Against Rival, New Investigation Reveals

Press Release: Texas Media Company Hired By Trump Is Behind Kenyan President's Viral 'Anonymous' Attack Campaign Against Rival, New Investigation Reveals
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