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We explore the legal case, the ways the tag hasn't worked for long periods of time, and a dubious AI the Home Office has been using in decisions as to whether someone remains on a GPS tag.LinksRead more from Katie's law firm, Wilsons Solicitors, about the casePI's Complaint to the ICO (the UK's Data Protection Authority)Read more about relevant cases in which PI has filed witness evidenceThe five companies at the heart of the UK's GPS tagging systemWe tested GPS ankle tags, read how our…
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LinksCompanies getting disciplinedOvulation Tracking App Premom Will be Barred from Sharing Health Data for Advertising Under Proposed FTC Order Facebook getting fined for data exploitation in NorwayCNIL fines CriteoCNIL fines DoctissimoWorldcoin (aspires to be World ID) has been getting some pushback from some countriesGovernments abandoning plans, or at least held to accountKenya drops Huduma Numba and replaces it with new systems (it’s not any better and advocacy under way) but it’s…
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Our world is undergoing a seismic process of increasing digitisation, which sees the proliferation of new technologies and the growing integration of these technologies into public services, which rely more and more on copious amounts of personal data and on automated processes. This phenomenon has a unique impact upon the rights of persons with disabilities. As the era of global digitisation causes societies worldwide to undergo a digital metamorphosis, persons with…
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Since we recorded this podcast there has been an update on the Microsoft Activision mergerLinksPI competition page (our "very influential work")More about Dr MantzariEcosystems and competition law in theory and practice - a research paper about ecosystemsPower Imbalances in Online Marketplaces: At the Crossroads of Competition Law and Regulation - one of Dr Deni's papers looking at peconomic dependence in online marketplacesGoogle Android European court case on abuse of dominance and more info…
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On International Identity Day, we are highlighting that the technology-driven ID systems being implemented around the world are leading to new forms of surveillance and exclusion.Last September, PI and its global network of partners launched Identity Crisis - a campaign to change the narrative on identity systems. Around the world PI and our partners have seen ID systems creating and facilitating exclusion, insecurity, and surveillance.To learn more, watch our Identity Crisis video, in which…
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- Refuge's Tech Safety resources
- Refuge's Tech Safety smart home devices tool
- Read more about Dr Tanczer and her work
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- PI's guides to improve your own device security
- UK Member's of Parliament discuss smart tech and abuse
- Connected technology: MPs call on Government to tackle growing problem of tech-enabled domestic abuse
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Human rights abuses including unlawful killings by police, violence at Kenya's 2017 election
Claims of fraud from Kenya's last election
PI and the Carter Center's joint election report
Challenge to the 2022 election result and Supreme Court decision
More about the use of data in elections
Our data and elections checklist
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As ever, with a huge thank you to Sepia!
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More about Gillian Tully
Original Phone Extraction podcast
GPS tag complaint: Challenge to systemic quality failures of GPS tags submitted to Forensic Science Regulator
Why Forensics Matter: Immigration officers and the quality of evidence in the UK
Push This Button For Evidence: Digital Forensics
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
Unpacking the evidence elasticity of digital traces
Forensic science and the criminal justice system: a blueprint for change…
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The defense and protection of the environment continues to come at a high cost for activists and human rights defenders. In 2021, the murders of environment and land defenders hit a record high. This year, a report by Global Witness found that more than 1,700 environmental activists have been murdered in the past decade.
While the issue of surveillance of human rights defenders has received attention, evidence of the surveillance of environmental activists keeps mounting, with recent examples…
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Quick corrections!
GDPR compensation is in theory possible through court action
GDPR Article 80(2) not Section 20 something as I stated!
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Cory's website
Chokepoint Capitalism coauthored with Rebecca Giblin
Giphy and Meta
Chokepoint Capitalism: the audiobook
How to leave dying social media platforms (without losing your friends)
Cory on Mastodon: https://mamot.fr/@doctorow and https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic
PI on Mastodon
Crad Kilodney documentary
Algorithms…
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Links- Read more of our work on EdTech- Find out more about Google Classroom in Denmark- Taser drones- Our tracker looking at the use of EdTech around the world
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Please note this podcast was recorded before Sebastian and Netzpolitik were able to talk to PimEyes CEO Gobronidze in person.
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More of Netzpolitik's work on PimEyes
PI's work on facial recognition
Our work on Clearview
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Nour El Arnaout is a division manager at the Global Health Insitute at the American University of Beirut, where she also co-ordinates the Institutes's E-Sahha programme focussed on e-health and digital health. She has more than 7 years experience in projects and programmes management, operational management and research, and leads the implementation of large scale field based projects in underserved communities in Lebanon including refugee settlements. She is working on a project called: The…
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The relationship between privacy and access to abortion care
In 1973, in the state of Texas, it was a criminal offence to “procure or attempt” an abortion except if the purpose was “saving the life of the mother.” This law was enacted in 1854 by the Texas state legislature, and was part of a wave of provisions criminalising access to abortion care that was gaining ground across the U.S in the mid-1800s. It is worth highlighting that these laws were being passed at a time when women in the U.S…
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A resource for teachers we've been working with Ina on (consultation draft at the moment so please get in touch if you have thoughts!)
More about critical data literacy
The database of resources for teaching about big data and algorithmic systems Ina mentioned
PI's guides to help you and your loved ones protect yourselves online
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Giacomo’s report on Europe’s Shady Funds to Border Forces in the Sahel https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3223/europes-shady-funds-border-forces-sahel
Giacomo’s report on The European Chase for Saharan Smugglers https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3347/european-chase-saharan-smugglers
Privacy International’s disclosures on the EU’s surveillance aid https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4291/surveillance-disclosures-show-urgent-need-reforms-eu-aid-…
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You can check out IRPI Media at https://irpi.eu
Their series on surveillance (in Italian) is at https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/sorveglianze/
Their report on Med-Or (in English) is at https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-surveillances-medor-leonardo-marco-minniti/
Their report on Cy4Gate (in English) is at https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-surveillances-cy4gate-united-arab-emirates/