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Content type: Advocacy

Best Before date policy brief: Device sustainability through long-term software support

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Content type: Explainer

An introduction to software updates (and why they matter)

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Content type: Long Read

Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust

Case Study: The Gig Economy and Exploitation
Content type: Case Study

Case Study: The Gig Economy and Exploitation

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Content type: News & Analysis

UN experts report highlights role of private military and security companies in immigration management

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Content type: News & Analysis

Our response to Google: Privacy isn't a Luxury

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Content type: News & Analysis

Banning TikTok? It's time to fix the out-of-control data exploitation industry - not a symptom of it

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Content type: Advocacy

Our position on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

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Content type: Report

We looked into the software support practices for 5 of the most popular smart devices (and the results may disappoint you)

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Content type: Advocacy

PI's joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Content type: Examples

Smartphones, laptops, IoT devices vulnerable to new BIAS Bluetooth attack

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Content type: Video

Podcast: Low Cost Tech

Content type: Examples

Myanmar will block phone access for those who miss SIM registration deadline

Content type: Examples

Australia bars police from accessing contact tracing app metadata

Content type: Examples

Turkey prepares comprehensive quarantine surveillance

Content type: Examples

Taiwan operates comprehensive quarantine surveillance

Content type: Examples

Switzerland launches DP-3T contact tracing app

Content type: Examples

Belgium/Netherlands: Developer of prototype contact tracer app leaks personal data

Content type: Examples

Israel: Numerous agencies track citizens in health emergency

Content type: Examples

Canada: Location data analysis shows demographics of movement patterns

Content type: Examples

Germany pivots to decentralised contact tracing

Content type: Examples

South Africa: Data-sharing and misinformation emergency laws violate constitution

Content type: Examples

Mexican telcos grant government access to cell phone antennas

Content type: Examples

North Macedonia launches Bluetooth-based contact tracing app

Content type: Examples

India launches COVID-19 tracker app

Content type: Examples

Australia releases contact tracing apps

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Content type: Long Read

There's an app for that: Coronavirus apps

Content type: Examples

US: Kansas and other states track lockdown compliance via Unacast analytics

Content type: Examples

Russia: Moscow plans to use smartphone geolocation to track foreign visitors

Content type: Examples

Norwegian contact tracing app blames Apple design for centralised GPS location database