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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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How Privacy and Data Protection Law Can Help Defend Migrants' Rights

Technology and data are increasingly used for immigration enforcement, putting migrants’ fate in the hands of systems driven by data processing and algorithmic decision making.

As the UK plans a future of dynamic risk assessments for visa applicants, the collection of biographic and biometric data and automated data sharing, we explore the degree to which privacy and data protection laws can defend migrants against abuses of their data and seek redress when their rights are denied.

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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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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

Examples of Abuse

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New York Police Department expands surveillance post-9/11

The 20 years since the 9/11 attacks have fundamentally changed the way the New York Police Department operates, leading it to use facial recognition software, licence plate readers, and mobile X-ray vans, among other surveillance tools for both detecting and blocking potential terrorist attacks and
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Privacy International’s submission to UNSR: “Human Rights Violations At International Borders: Trends, Prevention And Accountability”

PI responded to the call of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants to assess the human rights impact of current and newly established border management measures. In our submission we focus on relevant developments in the United Kingdom as well as provide an insight into global trends.

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