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GFF Challenge to use of government spyware (Germany)
On 30 September 2019, Privacy International submitted a statement to the German Constitutional Court in a case concerning the government use of spyware, such as state trojans, in the context of criminal investigations.
Challenge to Hidden Data Ecosystem
Privacy International filed complaints with multiple data protection regulators to investigate potential GDPR infringements by data brokers, ad-tech companies and credit referencing agencies.
10 Human Rights Organisations v. United Kingdom
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued a landmark ruling that the UK’s mass interception program, first exposed by whistleblower Snowden in 2013, breached people’s rights to privacy and freedom of expression. This case will have an impact not only in the UK but across Europe.
Nubian Rights Forum and others V. The Attorney General (Kenya)
Our filing in the groundbreaking Kenyan ID case
Bulk Personal Datasets & Bulk Communications Data challenge
PI challenges the acquisition, use, retention, disclosure, storage and deletion of bulk personal datasets and bulk communications data by the UK Security and Intelligence Agencies.
Colombia Police Code
Privacy International filed an intervention at the Colombian Constitutional court challenging the mass surveillance provisions contained in the Colombian Police Code.
US Hacking FOIA
Privacy International et al. v. FBI et al.: On 21 December 2018, Privacy International, together with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic of the University at Buffalo School of Law, filed a lawsuit demanding U.S. federal law enforcement and immigration
ICO Complaint against the UK's GPS tagging of migrants
This legal challenge relates to a complaint filed with the UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) against the UK Home Office's policy and practice of using GPS ankle tags to monitor migrants released on immigration bail.
PI Apple TCN Challenge
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.