Long Reads
PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers.
What if your boss was an algorithm? What would you do if your employer suddenly fired you or reduced your pay without telling you why? And without being willing to give you a reason when you ask for one? This is not science fiction or some far-fetched reality. Millions of people worldwide are
At Privacy International, we challenge companies and governments who infringe on our privacy and facilitate, as well, violations of other human rights. Read on to find out about some of our biggest legal successes.
At Privacy International, we challenge companies and governments who infringe on our privacy and facilitate, as well, violations of other human rights. Our most recent challenge is against Clearview AI, a company that trawls the internet to save photos of our faces to form part of their biometric
We explore Zimbabwe's embrace of surveillance technologies, and the Zimbabwean government's increasingly close relationship with Huawei.
Zimbabwe has a history of state led surveillance that is carried out more for political gain than for the investigation of legitimate criminal activities. During former President Mugabe’s 37 year rule the government used laws and [state security structures](https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2013/08
In 2017, Huawei offered the city of Valenciennes in France 240 facial recognition cameras. Privacy International explores four years of a partnership riddled with concerns.
In a previous article, we mapped the influence of the Chinese company Huawei across the world and how their sales of smart city infrastructures are contributing to the reshaping of our public space. We should be alarmed by some of their product deployments – such as the installation of facial
Huawei is one of the tech companies that governments worldwide are collaborating with to reshape our public spaces. We have been working on mapping out the development of Huawei Smart City initiatives around the world and have been mobilising other actors to join this effort.
The smart city market is booming. And with a booming market comes companies that are profiting and reshaping our public space, like the Chinese tech company Huawei. While the term ‘Smart City’ is a broad one that encompasses many different initiatives, some with little to no impact on our privacy
In this piece we outline the main discussions and measures we need to see being systematically adopted to inform decision-making about digital solutions in the health sector, and provide examples of where these were not integrated in decision-making processes and with what consequences.
For over 20 years with the start of the first use of ICTs in the 1990s, we have seen a digital revolution in the health sector. The Covid-19 pandemic significantly accelerated the digitalisation of the health sector, and it illustrates how fast this uptake can be and what opportunities can emerge
During the Covid-19 pandemic, telemedicine experienced a global boost. Post-pandemic, the telemedicine industry has been valued at a quarter trillion dollars. However, there are issues, ranging from lack of clear guidelines, lack of training for providers, and issues of connectivity, to costs for patients, the remote care being covered by insurance, that providers must understand prior to deploying telemedicine solutions.
Image source This piece is a part of a collection of research that demonstrates how data-intensive systems that are built to deliver reproductive and maternal healthcare are not adequately prioritising equality and privacy. Telemedicine describes the vast range of applications and technologies used
PI has put together an analysis of some of the most used Foundational ID systems worldwide.
Governments around the world are increasingly making registration in national digital ID systems mandatory for populations, justifying its need on a range of issues from [facilitating access to services](https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4472/exclusion-design-how-national-id-systems-make
An overview of how the EU works extensively with non-EU countries to introduce biometric ID systems in order to "manage" migration and borders, and recommendations on possible ways to mitigate the risks
In early August, the African Union (AU) issued a statement condemning Denmark’s Aliens Act which, among other things, allows Demark to relocate asylum seekers to countries outside the European Union while their cases are being processed. The AU argues that this amounts to an abdication by Denmark of
If you’re in the UK you may know Bounty as the company that distribute packs of samples to pregnant women at midwife appointments. They’re also the ones that were found to have illegally shared the data of over 14 million mums & babies with 39 companies.
Image found here. Founded in 1959, Bounty UK Limited markets itself as an information service for pregnant women and new mothers. Prior to the pandemic, it was best known for distributing “Bounty packs” of free samples of baby products to pregnant women at midwife appointments, to new mothers on