Courts and specialist tribunals have the power to rein in government and corporate data exploitation. PI invests substantial resources in pursuing court challenges designed to protect our privacy. PI also aims to be as transparent as possible with regard to how we conduct our litigation, including by making most court filings and related materials public when we're allowed to. You can read more about our cases, and access those materials, through the links below.
PI challenges the acquisition, use, retention, disclosure, storage and deletion of bulk personal datasets and bulk communications data by the UK Security and Intelligence Agencies.
This legal challenge aims to hold governments to account for mass surveillance and intelligence sharing.
Our case at the European Court of Human Rights challenging UK intelligence agency conducting hacking operations outside of the UK.
Privacy International led landmark litigation on judicial review principles and their applicability to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
Our case challenging the UK Government's refusal to disclose records on intelligence sharing agreements.
In Privacy International’s Bulk Personal Datasets/Bulk Communications Data (BPD/BCD) claim, the Security and Intelligence Services disclosed that the Prime Minister had issued three directions to the Intelligence Services Commissioner. The first direction was public. The second direction was made
PI challenges police forces' refusal to disclose information on mobile phone surveillance.
Privacy International et al. v. FBI et al.: On 21 December 2018, Privacy International, together with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic of the University at Buffalo School of Law, filed a lawsuit demanding U.S. federal law enforcement and immigration
Privacy International, together with Liberty, challenges MI5's data-handling arrangements before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
