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Best Before Date for our devices
Demanding device sustainability through long-term software support and transparency from manufacturers.
UK Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS): the new police mega-database
The Home Office is currently developing a UK-wide police 'super-database' containing a vast amount of data, which mixes both evidential and intelligence material. Here is why PI is concerned about LEDS and what we are doing about it.
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’.
When Social Media makes you a target
Governments are profiling people using their social media data -- effectively weaponising the devices and the platforms we use everyday.
Neighbourhood Watched
From facial recognition to social media monitoring, from remote hacking to the use of mobile surveillance equipment called 'IMSI catchers', UK police forces are using an ever-expanding array of surveillance tools to spy on us as we go about our everyday lives.
Challenging the Drivers of Surveillance
Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance capabilities without adequate safeguards.