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People all over the world share with menstruation apps their deeply intimate data - the date of their last periods, dates and details pertaining to their sex lives, their moods, their health. This data is being ruthlessly exploited and shared with third parties to target and profile people. 

Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored. 

PI intervened in the case challenging the constitutionality of South African surveillance law.

PI est intervenue dans une affaire française contestant la conservation des données personnelles dans le cadre de la réglementation française en vigueur, devant une juridiction nationale puis devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne.

PI intervened in a French case challenging the retention of personal data under French law first at national level and then before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

We look at how apps are exposing peoples' activities and behaviours to Facebook.

After months of research, we filed complaints against seven of data broker companies: Acxiom, Criteo, Equifax, Experian, Oracle, Quantcast, and Tapad.

Effective competition is necessary for privacy and innovation. Increasingly the digital economy is characterised by a few companies in dominant positions. These companies are able to impose terms and conditions that exploit our data and violate our freedoms.

Privacy International challenged the compatibility of the Hungarian Electronic Communications Act with EU law in an intervention before the Hungarian Constitutional Court.

Privacy International filed an intervention at the Conseil d'État in support of a claim seeking to abrogate legislation enabling indiscriminate data retention