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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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Privacy and autonomy: Redefining boundaries for Indigenous communities

The concept of privacy is essential for Indigenous peoples to exercise their right to autonomy and self-determination, enabling them to better protect their cultural heritage and prevent external control, exploitation, and surveillance of their lands and identities.

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Locating Privacy in the Right to Protest Pakistan

New report mapping the on-ground experiences of local activists in Pakistan. It documents and analyses collective and personal privacy issues faced by civic organisers and protestors. 

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International Safe Abortion Day 2023

Introduction The 28th of September marks International Safe Abortion Day. It remains a day necessary to mobilise and raise awareness of the continued struggles women and girls face when accessing reproductive healthcare, including

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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.

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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.

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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

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?"

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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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PI's submission the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom assembly 2023

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Privacy International's response to the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on the tools and guidelines which may assist law enforcement in promoting and protecting human rights in the context of peaceful protests

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