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migrants
Content type: Case Study

...it protects those fleeing from persecution

handcuffs
Content type: Case Study

…no one can arrest or detain you arbitrarily

What Corporate Profiling Looks Like
Content type: Long Read

A Snapshot of Corporate Profiling

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Content type: News & Analysis

How our smartphones became the new frontier for police stop and search

Public concern about warrantless police searches of smartphones
Content type: Video

Digital stop and search - public concern about the police secretly downloading content from smartphones

Content type: Press release

New report reveals that the UK police are secretly downloading content from suspects' mobile phones on a massive scale

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Content type: Explainer

Phone Monitoring

Content type: Examples

Websites bypass mobile app permissions to access device sensors

Rohingya
Content type: News & Analysis

Communities at risk: How governments are using tech to target migrants

mobile phone extraction device
Content type: Long Read

Your local police force could download everything from your phone without your consent

Did you know the police can download everything from your phone?
Content type: Explainer graphic

Police mobile phone extraction explainer

Smartphone manufacturers secretly trade cheap prices for data collection
Content type: Examples

Smartphone manufacturers secretly trade cheap prices for data collection

Software installed on cheap Android phones sends user data to China
Content type: Examples

Software installed on cheap Android phones sends user data to China

Content type: Examples

Google's launches Android operating system and starts collecting

Content type: Examples

Blip Systems: Traffic management through physical device tracking

Content type: Examples

Argentina: Urbetrack pitches quarantine enforcement geofencing app

Content type: Examples

Pan-European project seeks to create standards for app-based contact tracing

Content type: Examples

Supercom repurposes electronic surveillance system for quarantine

Content type: Examples

Argentina proposes tracking to ensure quarantine compliance

Woman looking at her phone, text reads Sharing is Caring, like your location, your microphone etc
Content type: News & Analysis

Senior Google engineer reveals privacy bombshell in Android’s preinstalled apps

Man taking a picture with his phone
Content type: Advocacy

Lettre ouverte à Google

Satire advert reading 8GBs of storage, 4GBs of unnecessary software
Content type: Advocacy

Carta abierta a Google

Satire advert reading 8GBs of storage, 4GBs of unnecessary software
Content type: Advocacy

An open letter to Google

Android-Privacy is not a luxury
Content type: Explainer

Research Methodology, Pre-Installed Android App Analysis

image-video
Content type: Video

#LowCostTech - Philippines Phone Case Study Explained

MyPhone Mya2 Phone
Content type: Long Read

Buying a smart phone on the cheap? Privacy might be the price you have to pay

Police extracting data from mobile phone
Content type: Report

Old Law, New Tech and Continue Opacity: Police Scotland's use of mobile phone extraction

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Content type: Long Read

No Body's Business But Mine: How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data

Content type: Examples

Startups use behavioural data and smartphone habits for credit scoring