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Mass surveillance can subject a population or significant component thereof to indiscriminate monitoring, involving a systematic interference with people’s right to privacy and all the rights that privacy enables, including the freedom to express yourself and to protest.

Facial Recognition is a technology that matches captured images with other facial images held, for example, in databases or "watchlists". It is an extremely intrusive form of surveillance and can seriously undermine our freedoms and eventually our society as a whole.

Workers are facing unprecedented surveillance from their employers and the platforms they work for. Under the guise of productivity, efficiency and economic incentive, employers and platforms are deploying dehumanising and invasive surveillance tools. These can capture workers' every move and even be used to take decisions against them. PI believes workers should not have to choose between their privacy and their job. That's why we are researching and taking action against workplace surveillance and algorithmic management.

We’re facing the end of privacy in public, because of the unchecked rise of facial recognition technology (FRT) in public spaces, shops and bars. If you're in the UK, join ‘The End of Privacy in Public’ campaign to demand that your MP finds out if facial recognition cameras are being deployed in your local area.

PI, ainsi que 7 autres organisations de la société civile, sont intervenues devant le Conseil constitutionnel français pour contester la constitutionnalité de la loi.

PI, along with 7 other civil society organisations intervened before the French Constitutional Council, challenging the constitutionality of the law.

Creators who produce content for big online platforms, from video game livestreamers on Twitch to adult content producers on platforms like OnlyFans, often find themselves forced to share a lot of data, putting their privacy and security at risk while being given limited information as to how this data is being used.

We filed an expert affidavit in a case challenging Uganda's digital ID system, Ndaga Muntu.