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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.

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Bug Off! A Primer for Human Rights Groups on Wiretapping

Bug Off! A Primer for Human Rights Groups on Wiretapping

The explosion of telecommunications services has improved the ability for human rights groups to disseminate information worldwide. New telephone, facsimile and computer communications have created opportunities for human rights groups to improve organizing and to promote human rights faster and at
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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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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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