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Surveillance Industry Finally Facing Scrutiny, but Will it Change Anything?

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Infrared temperature screening

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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target?

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Social media intelligence (SOCMINT) explainer

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Facial recognition cameras explainer

Report and Analysis

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Restraining protest surveillance: When should surveillance of protesters become unlawful?

PI has published a report advocating for 12 human rights-based legal standards to limit surveillance by police and law enforcement at protests. Our report explains how these standards are rooted in the rights to privacy and freedom of assembly and illustrates why these specific legal limits are necessary at every stage of a protest.

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Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses Global lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO), and Privacy International (PI) joined together to track the negative impacts of surveillance technology and measures deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic on activist movements and organizations, in collaboration with local organizations and researchers in 6 countries.

Long Read

How to avoid social media monitoring: A Guide for Climate Activists

PI ran a survey of environmental activists to gather their surveillance concerns. Based on their experiences, we put together the following guide on how to limit social media monitoring.

News

5th December 2022

EU Watchdog Finds Commission Failed to Protect Human Rights From its Surveillance Aid to African Countries

18th March 2022

The Clearview/Ukraine partnership - How surveillance companies exploit war

27th January 2022

Data Protection Impact Assessments and ID systems: the 2021 Kenyan ruling on Huduma Namba

19th August 2021

Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

12th May 2021

How Priti Patel needs to fix the Aspen Card

10th February 2021

The Hostile Environment is incompatible with public health: PI joins the Vaccine For All campaign

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Student monitoring persists post-pandemic

Even though schools are back in session in person, their teachers can still monitor the screens on their school-issued devices via software such as GoGuardian. In a new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology, 89% of teachers say their schools will continue to use student-monitoring

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Our Advocacy

Privacy International’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health

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Privacy International’s submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health for her forthcoming thematic report to the Human Rights Council on the theme of: “Digital innovation, technologies and the right to health”.

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