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2020 is a crucial year to fight for data protection in Africa

Africa is a testing ground for technologies produced elsewhere: as a result, personal data of its people are increasingly stored in hundreds of databases.

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Makalondi, at the Niger-Burkina Faso border

The European Chase for Saharan Smugglers

A look at attempts to dismantle smuggling networks in the Sahara, powered by Europe's gifts of surveillance.

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...it protects those fleeing from persecution

If you are persecuted at home, you have the right to seek protection in another country.

News

2nd April 2020

The EU needs to provide assistance to migrants affected by Covid-19. But their latest proposal does nothing of the kind.

18th September 2019

New Report Underlines the EU’s Strategy in the War on Migration: Border Externalisation

24th May 2019

ICE is Paying Millions to Surveillance Company to Spy on People’s Communications

11th April 2019

Communities at risk: How governments are using tech to target migrants

Examples of Abuse

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Harvard Freshman Deported at US Border Because of Friends’ Social Media Posts

A 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Lebanon, Ismail B. Ajjawi, was deported shortly after he arrived at Boston Airport, where he was due to start attending Harvard University the following week. Immigration officers subjected him to hours of questioning — at one point leaving to search his phone

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Our Advocacy

Covid-19 doesn't discriminate based on immigration status - nor should the Home Office

Privacy International has joined JCWI, Liberty, Medact and other UK civil society organisations to call on Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary to enact urgent changes to ensure the safety of migrants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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