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Data Intensive Systems

Video: How Companies Exploit Your Data

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PI submission on the GPS Tracking of Migrants in the UK

Privacy International has made a submission to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration inspection of the Home Office Satellite Tracking Service Programme. We highlighted some of our concerns about the intrusive nature of location data as well as systemic failures relating to the quality of tags and battery life of devices which have a significant impact on individuals, as battery depletion can result in criminal prosecution.

 

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rights other than privacy

A Guide to Litigating Identity Systems: Impact of identity systems on rights other than privacy

This section sets out arguments on rights other than privacy, namely liberty, dignity, and equality. It provides detail on the social and economic exclusion and discrimination that can result from the design or implementation of identity systems.

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Privacy is Security: an op-ed from Peru

Miguel Morachimo, Executive Director of Hiperderecho. Hiperderecho is a non-profit Peruvian organisation dedicated to facilitating public understanding and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital environments. The original version of this article was published in Spanish on Hiperderecho
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21st June 2018

Press release: Privacy International asks Thomson Reuters if it will stop facilitating the US government’s “zero tolerance” policy

13th March 2018

A day in the life of Catalina, a forty-year-old cis woman living in Bogota

12th March 2018

A day in the life of Camille, a 25-year-old cis woman living in Paris

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Naomi Fontanos, a trans woman living in Manila

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Carolina, a 34-year-old cis woman living in downtown Santiago

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Maritza, a 57-year-old cis woman living in Caracas

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Privacy International’s submission for the UN report on the right to privacy in the digital age

Despite repeated recommendations by the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly to review, amend or enact national laws to ensure respect and protection of the right to privacy, national laws are often inadequate and do not regulate, limit or prohibit surveillance powers of government agencies as well as data exploitative practices of companies.


Even when laws are in place, they are seldom enforced. In fact PI notes how it is often only following legal challenges in national or regional courts that governments are forced to act. This is not a sustainable position: CSOs, journalists, and human rights defenders often do not have the capacity (or legal standing) to challenge governments or companies’ actions, they may face threats if they so (including of the same unlawful surveillance that they are challenging) and in many jurisdictions there are no independent avenues of effective redress.

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