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Public Concern About Warrantless Police Searches of Smartphones

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Police unlocking your data in the cloud

Our data stored in the cloud is increasingly sought after by law enforcement agencies. Increasingly, it is obtained using ‘cloud extraction technologies’.

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Cameras as an art installation on the wall

Protecting Civic Spaces

Imagine that every time you want to attend a march, religious event, political meeting, protest, or public rally, you must share deeply personal information with police and intelligence agencies, even when they have no reason to suspect you of wrongdoing. First, you need to go to the police to

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Are UK police accessing your cloud apps?

Which police forces in the UK are using cloud extraction and how and why this is lawful, remains opaque

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…it protects our ability to move freely

You have the right to leave or move within your own country and you should be able to return.

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15th January 2020

Preliminary Statement: Advocate General's Opinion Advises that Mass Surveillance Regime is Unlawful

7th January 2020

Are UK police accessing your cloud apps?

7th January 2020

Big tech companies must protect customer data from legal backdoors

6th January 2020

Secret tech lets governments collect masses of data from your apps

6th January 2020

Awareness about cloud computing and where apps store data in Great Britain

5th January 2020

Controversial Cyber Kiosks to be rolled out in Scotland

Examples of Abuse

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

Norwegian Institute of Public health working on an app to store location data for 30 days

Together with Norwegian company Simula the Norwegian Institute of Public Health is developping a voluntary app to track users geolocation and slow the spread of Covid-19. Running in the background, the app will collect GPS and Bluetooth location data and store them on a server for 30 days. If a user

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Privacy International submission to Police Scotland on cyber kiosks

Our response to a consultation on mobile searches