Long Reads
Here is a selection of our biggest achievements in 2025.
Last year was challenging and brought more uncertainty in our lives. But despite this, in 2025 we made visible progress towards making the world a better place for all of us. We challenged governments and corporations that exploit data and technology, pushed for new national and international policy
In 2024, Privacy International (PI) and Women on Web (WoW) surveyed sexual and reproductive justice (SRJ) activists to gather their concerns and experiences with privacy and surveillance when conducting their work in digital spaces. Based on their feedback and experiences, we have created a practical guide that SRJ activists can use to help protect their privacy online and to secure their devices.
Introduction With digital evidence increasingly used in abortion-related prosecutions , and sexual and reproductive health content deliberately censored , activists find themselves operating in an increasingly hostile environment. Sexual and reproductive justice (SRJ) defenders are facing growing
After the UK data protection authority founded that the UK Government’s GPS tagging of migrants arriving to the UK by small boats and other “irregular” routes was unlawful, PI continued to monitor and research the Home Office's policies and practices relating to the GPS tagging of migrants. In this piece we present our findings.
GPS tags are intrusive data collection tools that monitor and record the location of the wearer using satellite and mobile technology, collecting location data referred to as “trail data” at certain intervals. Trail data is particularly voluminous, sensitive, granular, and open to misinterpretation
Descubra el Juego de cartas sobre tecnología, datos y elecciones de Privacy International, que le permitirá explorar cuestiones clave como las siguientes:
- ♥ Corazones: Por qué es importante la protección de datos durante el ciclo electoral
- ♦ Diamantes: Qué tecnologías se emplean para gestionar las elecciones
- ♠ Picas: Qué normativa es aplicable a los partidos y demás agentes relevantes
- ♣ Tréboles: Qué papel desempeñan internet y los medios sociales en las elecciones y las campañas políticas
Tras publicar Tecnología, datos y elecciones: lista de verificación del ciclo electoral en español y en inglés , hemos creado también el Juego de cartas sobre tecnología, datos y elecciones . Tanto la publicación como la baraja están diseñadas para ofrecer a quienes observan procesos electorales
A legal ruling from the UK puts the onus back on Clearview to change its ways, while also raising important questions about the cross-border application of laws that regulate tech companies.
A tribunal in the UK has overturned a legal judgment about Clearview’s objectionable scraping of images of people’s faces from the internet. The latest ruling helpfully clarifies what should be in scope of data protection law, and provides a sensible view on how companies that operate across many
Health data is increasingly seen as a highly valuable commodity to be traded and collected by companies to fuel their analytics or advertising.
Health data is increasingly seen as a highly valuable commodity to be traded and collected by companies to fuel their analytics or advertising. Health data represents one of the most valuable types of personal data available to companies, whether this be for the training of AI (it is worth noting
This series produced in collaboration with Corporate Watch profiles ten companies and their products aiming to demonstrate how technologies developed for the battlefield are now shaping civilian life.
We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are inseparably interwoven. “Innovation” is increasingly framed not as a response to a concrete human need
Check out our Tech, Data and Elections Card Game, which explores important topics like:
- ♥ Hearts: Why data protection matters during the election cycle
- ♦ Diamonds: What tech is being used in the administration of elections
- ♠ Spades: What regulations apply to political parties and other political actors
- ♣ Clubs: The role of the internet and social media in elections and political campaigns
Following the publication of our Technology, Data and Elections Checklist, we have created a deck of Tech, Data and Elections Playing Cards. Both the checklist and the deck of cards aim to give electoral observers and civil society the necessary tools to understand and question the role of
In England’s schools, children are tracked from birth through a vast, opaque network of digital systems that turn education into a lifelong exercise in data collection and surveillance.
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary school, secondary education, and in many cases well into adulthood. What was once a matter of paper
Digital Health Technology Assessment is needed to make sure that tools developed by the private sector and relied on by public healthcare providers do not harm people and their rights.
Across the world, public healthcare providers are going digital in efforts to improve and modernise the services they offer. Whether it's apps that track symptoms, remote video consultations or cutting edge AI diagnostics, digital tools that support healthcare are often produced and supplied by