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Policing and Technology

Advances in technology significantly advance the capabilities of police, with few safeguards and no transparency.

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Free to Protest (Paraguay edition)

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Free to Protest (Colombia edition)

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Free to Protest (Palestine edition)

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Electronic monitoring using GPS tags: a tech primer

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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

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.
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PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance aims to provide the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance. You can find UN resolutions, independent expert reports and international human rights bodies jurisprudence.

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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. It defines E2EE, delves into its human rights implications, briefly addresses some prominent proposals for government access to E2EE content, and concludes with PI’s recommendations regarding E2EE.

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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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News

7th February 2023

Use of mobile phone extraction tools by law enforcement in Argentina

30th January 2023

Press: Landmark ruling exposes years of rule breaking by MI5

6th December 2021

The ICO’s announcement about Clearview AI is a lot more than just a £17 million fine

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

Examples of Abuse

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

New York Police Department expands surveillance post-9/11

The 20 years since the 9/11 attacks have fundamentally changed the way the New York Police Department operates, leading it to use facial recognition software, licence plate readers, and mobile X-ray vans, among other surveillance tools for both detecting and blocking potential terrorist attacks and
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Privacy International’s submission for the UN report on the right to privacy in the digital age

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PI presented a submission as part of the consultation process for the up-coming to report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR) on the right to privacy in the digital age.

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