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News & Analysis

A year and a half after OpenAI first released ChatGPT, generative AI still makes the headlines and gathers attention and capital. But what is the future of this technology in an online economy dominated by surveillance capitalism? And how can we expect it to impact our online lives and privacy?

Long Read

Increasingly we have seen mass surveillance measures being introduced at sports events, impeding the enjoyment of the right to privacy and right to participate in sporting life.

Long Read

Here is a selection of our biggest achievements in 2023.

News & Analysis

The UK's data protection authority (ICO) took action against the Home Office's GPS tagging of migrants.

Press release

Privacy International (PI) has just published new research into UK Members of Parliament’s (startling lack of) knowledge on the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in public spaces, even within their own constituencies. 

Long Read

Building on our response to the government’s plans, this piece explains why what they want to do puts every one of us at risk.

News & Analysis

As Pakistan prepares to enact the Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 we raise concerns on the opaque process which will see the bill become law and the content of the bill itself.

Press release

Suite à une plainte de Privacy International déposée en 2018, la société française d'AdTech Criteo s'est vue infliger une amende de 40 millions d'euros pour avoir failli à s'assurer que les personnes concernées avaient donné leur consentement au traitement de leurs données, ainsi que pour le manque d'information et de transparence qui leur était fourni par Criteo, et l'impossibilité d'exercer pleinement leurs droits.

Press release

Following a 2018 complaint by Privacy International, French AdTech company Criteo was fined €40 million for failing to ensure that data subjects had provided their consent to processing, failing to sufficiently inform them and to enable them to exercise their rights.

Long Read

Here are a handful of our biggest achievements in 2022.

News & Analysis

Our partners, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), have recently published their research on the use of mobile phone extraction tools by the police and judicial authorities in Argentina.

Long Read

Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud services are becoming available for global users. This was something that was until now reserved to US users. We have been calling for this for twelve years.

News & Analysis

UK's Investigatory Powers Commissioner clarifies the legal framework regulating use of IMSI catchers in the UK while maintaining "neither confirm nor deny" position about their use

Long Read

 

Privacy Internationals and Liberty’s latest legal case against the UK’s Security Service (MI5) hinges on MI5’s failure to police their vast data holdings. PI and Liberty allege MI5 broke the law by not effectively implementing crucial safeguards designed to protect all of us.

Long Read

The privatisation of migration control and policing takes different shapes and forms.
The latest iteration comes in disguise – specifically, in four pastel colours: if you were to look at this company's main website, in fact, you'd only find wristbands and tools to monitor the well-being of elderly people who live alone. But as stated in their annual report, the majority of British company Buddi's revenue originates from the criminal justice market.

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In a case that found seizing and extracting data from migrants' mobile phones breached their fundamental right to privacy, UK courts breathe some life into the human rights principle of access to remedy.