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Investigating brands using Facebook for advertising, exposing how difficult it is to understand how our data's used and demanding Facebook make it easier to exercise our rights

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Buying a brand new low-cost phone can leave you with an outdated operating system and exploitative apps.

IoT

Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored. 

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We look at how apps are exposing peoples' activities and behaviours to Facebook.

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Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.
 

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The use of ‘mobile phone extraction’ tools enables police forces to download all of the content and data from people’s phones. This can apply to suspects, witnesses and even victims – without their knowledge.

Falun Gong practitioners in NYC

Privacy International filed an amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case challenging the use of Cisco technology for the persecution of the Falun Gong minority in China.

Catt

In September 2016, Privacy International intervened in the case of Catt v the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights.

In the Matter of the Search of an Apple iPhone Seized during the Execution of a Search Warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203 (“Apple v. FBI”)

Privacy International filed an amicus curiae brief outlining the international implications of eroding safety features on mobile phones

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Creators who produce content for big online platforms, from video game livestreamers on Twitch to adult content producers on platforms like OnlyFans, often find themselves forced to share a lot of data, putting their privacy and security at risk while being given limited information as to how this data is being used.