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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. 

PI est intervenue dans une affaire française contestant la conservation des données personnelles dans le cadre de la réglementation française en vigueur, devant une juridiction nationale puis devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne.

PI intervened in a French case challenging the retention of personal data under French law first at national level and then before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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

Privacy International challenged the compatibility of the Hungarian Electronic Communications Act with EU law in an intervention before the Hungarian Constitutional Court.

Privacy International filed an intervention at the Conseil d'État in support of a claim seeking to abrogate legislation enabling indiscriminate data retention

A case that reached the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights analysing the UK’s mass interception program, first exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, relating to people’s rights to privacy and freedom of expression.