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We filed an expert witness statement in a case challenging the double registration of refugees.

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

Privacy International filed complaints with multiple data protection regulators to investigate potential GDPR infringements by data brokers, ad-tech companies and credit referencing agencies. 

People all over the world share with menstruation apps their deeply intimate data - the date of their last periods, dates and details pertaining to their sex lives, their moods, their health. This data is being ruthlessly exploited and shared with third parties to target and profile people. 

The ways in which we're called to identify ourselves is changing, and leaving us open to exploitation.

There is a growing push towards identity systems around the world - leading to some of the world's largest biometric databases, as well as other technologies that can be used to track and profile individuals and communities.

Our filing in the groundbreaking Kenyan ID case

After months of research, we filed complaints against seven of data broker companies: Acxiom, Criteo, Equifax, Experian, Oracle, Quantcast, and Tapad.

Identity systems create and facilitate exclusion, insecurity, and surveillance.

We filed an expert affidavit in a case challenging Uganda's digital ID system, Ndaga Muntu.