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PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance aims to provide the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance. You can find UN resolutions, independent expert reports and international human rights bodies jurisprudence.

Long Read

The UK government's controversial proposal to expand surveillance powers: What you need to know

Building on our response to the government’s plans, this piece explains why what they want to do puts every one of us at risk.

Long Read

A twelve year journey to get Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud services for global users

Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud services are becoming available for global users. This was something that was until now reserved to US users. We have been calling for this for twelve years.

News

4th October 2019

Who, what, why? A guide to understanding the Facebook encryption debate if you have lost the plot

3rd October 2019

PI response to confused governments’ confusing declaration of war and victory on encryption

29th May 2019

Ghosts in Your Machine: Spooks Want Secret Access to Encrypted Messages

15th May 2018

#efail and PGP - What should I do?

21st April 2017

Winning the debate on encryption — a 101 guide for politicians

1st February 2017

Defeating encryption: the battle of governments against their people

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Zoom exempts free service from end-to-end encryption to aid law enforcement

Zoom said it would deliver end-to-end encryption as one of a number of security enhancements to its service, but it will only be available to enterprise and business customers whose identity they can verify and not on the free service. The company says it wants to be able to work with law

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Our Advocacy

Privacy International’s Briefing on the Draft Text of the UN Cybercrime Convention

Summary

In this briefing Privacy International outlines its analysis of some key provisions on the draft text of the UN Cybercrime Convention, with the aim to provide delegations of Member States and other stakeholders with our recommendations to strengthen the draft and bring it into line with human rights law. This briefing builds upon the submissions made by PI at the previous sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee and reflects upon some of the amendments proposed by Member States. While not aiming to be comprehensive, it covers in particular the following Articles: 2, 3, 5, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 47 and 54.