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Unmasking Policing, Inc.

Governments are secretly collaborating with private companies. Here is why PI is concerned about surveillance outsourcing, and why together we urgently must expose them.
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Privacy and Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Post-Roe world

Concerning news from the US about the restriction of the right to abortion have made many reconsider their engagement with platforms processing health data. Here, we provide an overview of our research findings on the intersection of privacy and sexual and reproductive health.

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The use of SMS in the delivery of reproductive and maternal healthcare

Short Message Services (SMS) are being used in MHealth initiatives which aim to deliver crucial information to expecting and new mothers. But there are concerns that there is limited transparency about numerous aspects of SMS health services, and how the data is being processed, by whom and in accordance to what safeguards.

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Why we need to talk about digital health

In this piece we outline the main discussions and measures we need to see being systematically adopted to inform decision-making about digital solutions in the health sector, and provide examples of where these were not integrated in decision-making processes and with what consequences.

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22nd July 2022

Privacy and the Body: Privacy International’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attack on reproductive rights

20th July 2021

Our analysis of the WHO report on Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health

27th April 2021

Amazon Alexa/NHS contract: ICO allows partial disclosure

17th December 2020

Press Release: European Commission green lights Google and Fitbit merger in a game-changing and disappointing decision for the rights of millions of Europeans

6th August 2020

Google/Fitbit merger: more scrutiny from the EU Commission

24th June 2020

Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger

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US government bypasses CDC data tracking in favour of TeleTracking Technologies

Questions have been raised about an irregular process by which the Trump administration awarded a $10.2 million dollar six-month contract to Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies. TeleTracking has traditionally sold software to help hospitals track patient status; under the new contract it is
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PI's comments on the zero draft of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty

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PI published its comments on the zero draft of the WHO’s Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response accord (“WHO CA+”) which will be discussed by the WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) between 27 February and 3 March 2023.

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