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State of Privacy Kenya

Kenya

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Morocco

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State of Privacy Uganda

Uganda

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State of Surveillance Tunisia

Tunisia

Our Advocacy

Advocacy

Comments on the Kenyan Data Protection Bill, 2019

Submission DP Bill Sept 2019

Legal Case Description

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

Legal Case Description

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

Advocacy

Data Protection Still on the Agenda in Kenya

Taskforce Bill announcement

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

Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in Zimbabwe

The Right to Privacy in Zimbabwe

Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in Uganda

The Right to Privacy in Uganda

Educational and Explanatory

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

Case Study

phone journalist security truecaller

Reports and Analysis

Long Read

Data Privacy Week: Privacy in Public Spaces

IMSI catchers in park

Long Read

Data Privacy Week: Confronting the Corporate Gaze

Magnifying glass over social media icons and profiles

Long Read

Data Privacy Week: Exposing Harms, Fighting Back

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Report

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

Fact Sheet Cover

Report

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

Long Read

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

Long Read

International Women's Day 2018 - A Day in the Life of Women, As Told by Their Data

IWD2018

Long Read

Surveillance And The City: Turning Urban Centres Into A Panopticon

Surveillance and the City

Long Read

Watching The Watchers: Accessing and Challenging Control Over Our Data

Access and Control

Long Read

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

Report

Track, Capture, Kill: Inside Communications Surveillance and Counterterrorism In Kenya

Track, Capture, Kill: Inside Communications Surveillance and Counterterrorism In Kenya

Long Read

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

News and Updates

News & Analysis

Bulk surveillance is unlawful, says the High Court of South Africa

screenshot of decision

News

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

Kenya colonial ID

News

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

Surveillance eye

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

Cyber security Africa

Press release

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

From IFF website - illustration

Press release

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

Human Rights Council

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