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There are few places in the world where an individual is as vulnerable as at the border of a foreign country.
In March 2021 Privacy International intervened in a case in the European Court of Human Rights which challenges the use of social media intelligence by governmental agencies.
This was a campaign to take action with us and write to Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary, to demand that the Home Office stops spying on asylum seekers through their 'Aspen Card' debit payment card. The campaign is now closed.
Migrants are bearing the burden and losing agency in their migration experience: their fate is being put in the hands of systems that are feeding the surveillance and data exploitation ecosystem.
Governments are profiling people using their social media data -- effectively weaponising the devices and the platforms we use everyday.
From facial recognition to social media monitoring, from remote hacking to the use of mobile surveillance equipment called 'IMSI catchers', UK police forces are using an ever-expanding array of surveillance tools to spy on us as we go about our everyday lives.
In September 2016, Privacy International intervened in the case of Catt v the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights.
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
We filed complaints with 5 European data protection authorities against Clearview AI, a facial recognition technology company building a gigantic database of 10 billion + faces.