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How the police can gain access to your phone's content at a protest

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How social media monitoring can be used at a protest

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How the police can access your phone's 'unique identifiers' at a protest

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How the police can access your digital communications at a protest

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How predictive policing can be used at protests

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How the 'Law Enforcement Data Service' (LEDS) can be used at protests

Podcast: Extraction

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You’re a witness or a victim or a suspect of a crime; or even just travelling going on holiday. Officials demand your phone, then disappear with it. What happened to your phone? What happened to your data? What will happen to you?

We all generate vast amounts of data using our mobile phones -

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UK Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS): the new police mega-database

The Home Office is currently developing a UK-wide police 'super-database' containing a vast amount of data, which mixes both evidential and intelligence material. Here is why PI is concerned about LEDS and what we are doing about it.

Reports and Analysis

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Fact sheet on your data rights in relation to police surveillance at protests

An overview of your data rights in relation to data processed by the police at protests (UK edition).

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Fact sheet on photographing police officers at a protest

An overview of relevant considerations if and when photographing or filming police at a protest (UK edition).

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The UK’s Privatised Migration Surveillance Regime: A Rough Guide for Civil Society

Privacy International has released a guide to how UK authorities track and monitor immigrants and the companies which profit.

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27th July 2021

Taming Pegasus: A Way Forward on Surveillance Tech Proliferation

6th July 2021

The Policing Bill: Immigration Officers to get phone data extraction powers

29th June 2021

Policing Bill: An unsatisfactory debut on the statute books for mobile phone extraction

17th March 2021

The new Policing Bill fails to provide sufficient safeguards around extraction of victims' data.

8th March 2021

Challenging Police records management: our response to the public consultation on the way Police in England and Wales record and store information

3rd September 2020

Challenging over-policing: our response to the public consultation on the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS)

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Belarus protests draw unprecedented crackdown

The 2020 Belarus protests were the largest in the country's history and brought an unprecedented crackdown, in which protesters nationwide were tortured and criminally prosecuted as a means of repressing peaceful assembly. A report finds that these cases became political as the government violated

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PI and allies respond to College of Policing consultation, stating that live facial recognition tech can never be safely deployed in public places

Privacy InternationaI, Liberty, Defend Digital Me, Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch submitted a response to the College of Policing's public consultation on the Police use of live facial recognition technology.

In the response, we make it clear that all the aforementioned organisations believe that LFRT poses significant and unmitigable risks to our society.

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