On 21 February 2025, Privacy International, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Carter Center convened an expert roundtable to examine the international human rights implications of digital technologies in elections.
PI’s report on the legal implications of unrestrained protest surveillance for the fair trial rights of activists, human rights defenders and protesters
Surveillance databases are on the rise all around us and with them comes a wider array of issues. Here we begin to unpack these concerns and discuss some of the prominent global drivers of this trend.
Electoral processes - along with elections themselves - are one of the largest government data-gathering exercises undertaken outside of censuses (periodic governmental counts of a country's population). This makes electoral processes ripe for data exploitation and abusing the privacy of individual electors.
A glimpse into what you can find in the new version of PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance. From surveillance of public spaces to spyware and encryption, it’s got everything!
PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance providing the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance.
On 11 August 2024, PI delivered an oral statement during the 31st Session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the impact of the use of data & tech on the rights of persons with disabilities.
Governments have been digitising their health systems and, more broadly, healthcare. We dive into the right to health situated in the digital context, exploring the digital health initiatives that put patients' data and freedoms at risk.
Privacy International submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on racism for their upcoming report which will examine and analyse the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and non-discrimination and racial equality, as well as other international human rights standards.
PI published its comments on theRevised Draft of the negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement(13 March 2024) which will be discussed by the WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) between 18 and 28 March 2024.
The final text of the EU AI Act adopted by the European Parliament on 13 March 2024 fails to prevent tech-enabled harm to migrants and provide protection for people on the move.
On 3rd May, 2024, the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) issued its concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ahead of the HRC’s review of the UK, PI had made a submission highlighting key concerns in relation to the current UK communications’ surveillance regime and the proposal for its reform; the surveillance of migrants; and the surveillance of peaceful assemblies.
PI responded to the call for input from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the role of access to information in preventing, mitigating, and responding to the negative human rights impact of arms transfers.
