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Your NEW guide to surveillance human rights standards is here

A glimpse into what you can find in the new version of PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance. From surveillance of public spaces to spyware and encryption, it’s got everything!

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PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance providing the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance.

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Securing Privacy: PI on End-to-End Encryption

PI’s report on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) analyses and defends expanding the use of E2EE to protect our communications.

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Briefing: Controlling the UK's Private Intelligence Industry

New briefing details the growth of the private intelligence industry in the UK and what needs to be done about it.

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UK mass interception laws violates human rights and the fight continues...

On 25 May 2021, a Grand Chamber judgment against the UK broke new ground in the regulation of bulk interception capabilities requiring enhanced safeguards to protect the rights to privacy and freedom of expression against abuse. It is a complex judgment with lights and shades, and the fight against mass surveillance is not over. Find here our initial take on the judgment and what comes next.

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Q&A South African Constitutional Court amaBhungane case

The Constitutional Court of South Africa declared that bulk interception by the South African National Communications Centre is unlawful and invalid.

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News

19th August 2021

Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

3rd September 2020

PI’s statement on the ECtHR decision in Privacy International v. UK

16th September 2019

Bulk surveillance is unlawful, says the High Court of South Africa

29th May 2019

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

12th April 2018

El EPU de Colombia es una oportunidad para avanzar en el respecto del derecho a la intimidad

12th April 2018

Colombia’s UPR is an opportunity to improve the protection of the right to privacy

9th February 2018

Privacy International, Open Rights Group submission to consultation on establishing a UK Privacy and Civil Liberties Board

18th June 2017

Privacy International Sends Warning Briefing and Anti-Surveillance Phone Pouch to Brexit Negotiators to Help Them Stay Secure

Examples of Abuse

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

Did Mexico Drop $5 Million On This 'Unlimited' Uber-Stealth Spy Tech?

Mexico is one of the biggest buyers of next-generation surveillance technology. And now data leaked to Forbes indicates it's taken an unprecedented step in becoming the first-known buyer of surveillance technology that silently spies on calls, text messages and locations of any mobile phone user
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UN Human Rights Committee urges United Kingdom to respect the right to privacy

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On 3rd May, 2024, the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) issued its concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ahead of the HRC’s review of the UK, PI had made a submission highlighting key concerns in relation to the current UK communications’ surveillance regime and the proposal for its reform; the surveillance of migrants; and the surveillance of peaceful assemblies.

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