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Case Study

…it can protect our lives

Everyone has the right to life and to live freely and safety.

Case Study

…it can protect us from torture

No one has the right to torture you.

Long Read

A secret MI5 policy that enables crime in the UK with no accountability: How safe would you feel?

*Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash The British government needs to provide assurances that MI5’s secret policy does not authorise people to commit serious human rights violations or cover up of such crimes Privacy International, along Reprieve, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and

News

15th January 2020

Advocate General’s Opinion: national security mass retention regimes are incompatible with EU Law

15th January 2020

Preliminary Statement: Advocate General's Opinion Advises that Mass Surveillance Regime is Unlawful

13th November 2019

Government implies having no responsibility for MI5 ‘agents’ human rights abuses

12th September 2019

Counter-terrorism global policies: law making behind closed doors

19th January 2018

Right to privacy at the UN in 2017 - Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing

Examples of Abuse

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UK overhauls suspicious activity reporting system

In January 2019 the UK Home Office announced it would collaborate with France to overhaul its regime for suspicious activity reports in order to fight money laundering. In 2018, the number of SARs filed with the National Crime Agency rose by 10% to nearly 464,000. Banks, financial services, lawyers

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Our Advocacy

Submission for the report on ‘soft law’ by the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights

Privacy International's submission to the consultation initiated by the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights on the impact on human rights of the proliferation of “soft law” instruments and related standard-setting initiatives and processes in the counter-terrorism context. In

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