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Surveillance Industry Finally Facing Scrutiny, but Will it Change Anything?

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GPS tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Unmasking Policing, Inc.

Governments are secretly collaborating with private companies. Here is why PI is concerned about surveillance outsourcing, and why together we urgently must expose them.
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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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Huawei and Surveillance in Zimbabwe

We explore Zimbabwe's embrace of surveillance technologies, and the Zimbabwean government's increasingly close relationship with Huawei.

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Operating from the Shadows: Inside NSO Group’s Corporate Structure

In this briefing, PI together with Amnesty International and SOMO seek to aid civil society efforts toward greater oversight, accountability and remedy of corporate structures that have been reported to contribute to government surveillance of individuals, including human rights defenders.

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27th July 2021

Taming Pegasus: A Way Forward on Surveillance Tech Proliferation

22nd July 2021

Press note: Release of report "Operating from the Shadows: Inside NSO Group’s Corporate Structure"

16th November 2020

Can we get our internet back now please?

26th August 2020

UN experts report highlights role of private military and security companies in immigration management

11th June 2020

Why Amazon's temporary ban of police use of facial recognition is not enough

2nd April 2020

The EU needs to provide assistance to migrants affected by Covid-19. But their latest proposal does nothing of the kind.

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Examples of Abuse

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

US department of Homeland Security (DHS) buys cellphone location data from private companies

Sidestepping the need to obtain a search warrant, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been accessing smartphone location data by buying it from private marketing that typically embed tracker in apps. This data, which maps the movement of millions of cellphones in America, was collected

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Our Advocacy

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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