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Content type: Report
… Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO), and Privacy International (PI) joined together to track the … or legal basis, which is disproportionate to the stated objective, creating a serious threat of data abuses, … and contributes to the normalization of a surveillance state that accumulates large amounts of data about people in …
Content type: Long Read
… Key findings Environmental activists unanimously stated in survey responses that tech was essential to their … of their devices and online activities. All respondents stated that tech was essential to their activism , with 93% … sometimes even unknowingly and if you do not amend your privacy settings in a certain way, your data is more …
Content type: Press release
… on 5 October 2022, come in response to complaints filed by Privacy International, Access Now, Sea-Watch, BVMN, Homo … Union has been supporting surveillance in non-member states without the proper accountability or transparency … to be inadequate, undermining their universal nature, this statement is misleiding. Human rights is first about rights …
Content type: Report
… encryption (E2EE) contributes significantly to security and privacy. For that reason, PI has long been in favour of the … to recreate, in the digital world, the guarantees of privacy that have traditionally applied in private … but rarely secures the metadata of communications. Some states also place restrictions, including criminal …
Content type: Report
… industry and puts forward a series of recommendations for state and non-state actors invested in surveillance to ensure that they … government hacking presents unique and grave threats to our privacy and security. It has the potential to be far more …
Content type: Long Read
… Edward Snowden in 2013, breached people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression. This will have an impact … on Human Rights will have an impact on all 47 member states of the Council of Europe, all of which are parties to … ensure that we don’t sleepwalk into a world of ubiquitous state and corporate surveillance, it is essential that …
Content type: Press release
… by whistleblower Edward Snowden culminates in victory for privacy. Key points The Grand Chamber of the European Court … operated by the intelligence agencies of the United States and the United Kingdom. Ilia Siatitsa, acting Legal … powers, so important. “Bulk surveillance powers allow the State to collect data that can reveal a huge amount about …
Content type: Report
… concerns, and areas of interests for HRDs in relations to privacy, data protection, and communications surveillance. … use of passwords which they change regularly, customising privacy settings to limit what data the cookies can access; … Advocate for the adoption of safeguards to ensure that the state surveillance of online and offline activities is …
Content type: Video
… historical context: The constitutionally protected right to privacy seeks to be one of the guarantees that South Africa will not again act like the police state that it was under apartheid. Axiomatically, therefore, the right to privacy is singularly important in South Africa’s …
Content type: Case Study
… understanding of surveillance? Surveillance is a breach of privacy for the purposes of knowing your whereabouts, and … After I was released, I was given a chance to give a statement to the press, which got involved because my tweet about my arrest had gone viral. I gave out a short statement, telling the press that there were many students …
Content type: Long Read
… and transparent public services. The hollowing-out of the state makes room for the privatisation of critical … beneficial public-private partnerships (PPPs). But when states transfer more power to private entities, the public … Anything less continues to jeopardize the safety and privacy of the public. The UK government must cut ties with …
Content type: News & Analysis
… had the ability to deploy IMSI catchers . As do other states across the US . Also, IMSI catchers have allegedly … effect on civic society and infringes on our right to privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly and … Policing and Technology Mass Surveillance Our legal action Privacy International v. Information Commissioner's Office …
Content type: News & Analysis
… on an individual The law: an unacceptable interference with privacy In its first article, the law correctly states that any interference with the right to the secret of … privacy of any real meaning. The law would see the Nigerien state treating individuals whose communications are targeted …
Content type: Case Study
… system. Case Study Post date 1st April 2020 The right to privacy is crucial to protect a couple’s equal rights within … of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. Article 16, Right to marriage and to found a family … Risk LGBTIQ+ Gender Rights Defenders and Journalists Women Privacy Our fight Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity Protect …
Content type: News & Analysis
… Privacy International (PI) and Liberty have filed on Friday, … pre-existing case ( Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and others ), … bulk interception warrants on the basis of misleading statements made to the relevant authorities. In this new …
Content type: News & Analysis
… providers. The AG addressed two major questions: (1) When states seek to impose obligations on electronic … to those questions are: (1) Yes, EU law applies whenever states seek to impose processing requirements on electronic … is an affirmation of the basic principle at the heart of Privacy International’s work: national security measures …
Content type: Report
… Elena Lucherini, Piotr Sapiezynski and Alan Mislove stated that contact information (i.e. phone numbers) handed … from having their accounts compromised." He went on to state that "the last thing we want is for people to avoid … and organise How to check your account Go To Settings > Privacy > How people find and contact you. Set the drop down …
Content type: Case Study
… particular case, the people she is investigating are not state actors and have no tech resources. She is therefore reassured she does not need to worry about state surveillance of her communications. Chloe starts … exposed. While TrueCaller may have laudable intentions, the privacy implications for people who end up in their database …
Content type: Explainer
… surveillance increasingly used by governments and non-state actors. The term 'social media intelligence’ is often … person-to-group, group-to-group interactions is covert state action that needs to be strictly regulated by law. As it amounts to an interference with a person’s privacy, it should be demonstrably necessary and …
Content type: News & Analysis
… “It is what you might call ‘acceptable deaths,’” he states about the misuse of communications surveillance … NIS is the sacred cow of Kenya’s increasingly securitised state. It is the main agency conducting signals intelligence … real abuses in the effort to minimise those threats. Today, Privacy International publishes a new investigation – ' …