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Fintech: Privacy and Identity In the New Data-Intensive Financial Sector

Financial services are changing, with technology being a key driver. It is affecting the nature of financial services, from credit and lending through to insurance, and even the future of money itself. The field of fintech is where the attention and investment is flowing. Within it, new sources of

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Guide to International Law and Surveillance (2.0)

This guide covers an array of topics, including the legality of mass surveillance operations, the law surrounding data retention, the extraterritorial application of human rights law and digital surveillance, and the international law on hacking for surveillance purposes. It is a handy reference

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We “value” your privacy – (now allow us to track you across the internet)

I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found

It’s 15:10 pm on April 18, 2018. I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive on my phone. At 11:45 on May 11, 2018, I read a story on USA Today about Facebook knowing when teen

News

24th February 2020

PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge after MI5 admits that vast troves of personal data was held in “ungoverned spaces”

11th April 2019

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

11th December 2018

“Do no harm” in the digital age: Privacy and security cannot be ignored

12th June 2018

Protecting the digital beneficiary

1st December 2017

GCHQ Makes Brazen Attempt To Undermine The Independence Of Its New Regulator

15th March 2017

In Kenya, Communications Surveillance Is A Matter of Life and Death

Examples of Abuse

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

Belgium: Telecoms location data to be provided to third-party analytics company

The Belgian Minister of Public Health has approved a programme under which telephone companies Proximus and Telenet will transfer some of their their data to the private third-party company Dalberg Data Insights in order to help combat the coronavirus epidemic; Orange has also agreed "in principle"

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