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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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Reports and Analysis

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Shedding light on the DWP Part 1 - We read the UK welfare agency’s 995-page guide on conducting surveillance and here are the scariest bits

In 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations. Privacy International went through the 995 pages to understand how those investigations happen and how the DWP is surveilling benefits claimants suspected of fraud.

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Shedding light on the DWP Part 2 - A Long Day's Journey Towards Transparency

Following the publication of their investigation guide, we asked the DWP how the people they investigate get flagged. The answer? By an algorithm.

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Benefitting whom? An overview of companies profiting from “digital welfare”

Could private companies be the only ones really profitting from digital welfare? This overview looks at the big players.

News

10th February 2021

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

17th August 2020

Dear Home Secretary: Channel crossings are already inviable for asylum-seekers and human rights

22nd July 2020

New Report on “The Use of Biometric Data to Identify Terrorists: Best Practice or Risky Business?"

15th June 2020

Ethnic minorities at greater risk of oversurveillance after protests

11th June 2020

Why Amazon's temporary ban of police use of facial recognition is not enough

3rd June 2020

Data protection: a piece of the puzzle to “do no harm” in the digital age

Examples of Abuse

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[UK] Priti Patel under fire as Home Office bids to target child asylum seekers

Human rights experts have accused the home secretary, Priti Patel, of ignoring legal guidance in an attempt to target child asylum seekers who cannot prove they are under 18. A letter from the Home Office, seen by the Observer, reveals that the government is putting pressure on social workers to

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

Privacy International (PI), Fundaciòn Datos Protegidos, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) and Statewatch submission highlights examples on how digital technologies deployed in the context of border enforcement and administration reproduce, reinforce, and compound racial discrimination.