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Content type: Advocacy
23rd August 2021
PI, together with 30 national and international civil society organisations (CSOs), release an open letter calling on Parliament and relevant stakeholders to halt and ban the use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT) by the police and private companies.
We believe that the use of LFRT poses significant and unmitigable risks to our society. We do not believe that it can ever be safely deployed in public spaces or for mass surveillance purposes.
The open letter comes as a result of a…
Content type: News & Analysis
27th July 2021
As Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories continue to publish crucial information about the potential targets of NSO Group’s spyware, we know this much already: something needs to be done.
But what exactly needs to be done is less obvious. Even though this is not the first time that the world has learned about major abuses by the surveillance industry (indeed, it’s not even the first time this month), it’s difficult to know what needs to change.
So how can the proliferation and use of…