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In December 2021, PI intervened in a case before the European Court of Human Rights which, among others, deals with a disclosure order that would facilitate “the decoding of communications”.

On 24 September 2021, PI submitted a complaint to the UK’s data protection authority - the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) challenging the Home Office’s refusal to provide information about its meetings with tech companies around encryption.
 

You might think you own your phone - but there is data on there you can't access, you can't delete, and possibly is being silently leaked to companies you've never heard of.

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

Our challenge to both the lawfulness and the secrecy of the legal regime governing Technical Capability Notices following the apparent use of one by the UK Home Office to require Apple to maintain the capability to provide access to all data stored on iCloud.