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Bar chart individual understanding of term cloud computing

Awareness about cloud computing and where apps store data in Great Britain

Cloud extraction technology is being used in secret whilst the public are often unaware that large volumes of data that they generate are stored in the cloud and thus accessible using these technologies.

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New Swedish draft proposal for government hacking powers violates human rights standards

Privacy International calls for the Swedish draft proposal conferring government hacking powers to law enforcement authorities to be rejected.

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Map of the reach of Facebook's transparency

Op-ed: The Unequal Application of Advertising Transparency

Most users around the world still don't have meaningful insight into how ads are being targeted at them on Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

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Can the police limit what they extract from your phone?

It is imperative that there is honesty as to the capabilities of extraction devices and clarity on what is taking place at a technical level.

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Give Google an inch and they’ll take a mile!

Google has been reported to collect health data records, we explore what is dangerous.

Long Read

Privacy is Security: an op-ed from Peru

Miguel Morachimo, Executive Director of Hiperderecho. Hiperderecho is a non-profit Peruvian organisation dedicated to facilitating public understanding and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital environments. The original version of this article was published in Spanish on Hiperderecho

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Google wants to acquire Fitbit, and we shouldn’t let it!

In November 2019, Google announced their plan to acquire Fitbit, a company that produces and sells health tracking technologies and wearables. This can potentially give Google ever more dominance in online markets at the expense of our rights. Here's why we should all be concerned.

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Inside Niger's New Biometric Voting System

Niger has recently joined other countries in creating a biometric database that will be used in the upcoming elections.

Press release

PI and other rights groups demand political parties come clean on user of voters personal data in the UK general election

Privacy International, Open Rights Group, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Fair Vote, Who Targets Me? and Demos have today written to all the main UK political parties, demanding that they are transparent with the public about how they are using voters’ personal data in their electioneering

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Yoti Letters

Privacy International has been doing work on the UK-based digital identity company, Yoti. We have raised concerns about their use of user data for their 'Yoti Age Scan' product. As we say in our analysis: Yoti Age Scan is just one example of digital identity. The issues ... can be used to reflect on

Long Read

Graphic illustrating that good cyber security means security for one is security for all

Filling the gaps on the understanding of cybersecurity and human rights across the world

The pressing need to fix our cybersecurity (mis)understandings Despite all the efforts made so far by different, cybersecurity remains a disputed concept. Some states are still approving cybersecurity laws as an excuse to increase their surveillance powers. Despite cybersecurity and cybercrime being

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Vigilancia, control social e inequidad: la tecnología refuerza vulnerabilidades estructurales en América Latina

CC: BY (Kirill Sharkovski)-SA Este artículo fue escrito por Jamila Venturini, Coordinadora regional de Derechos Digitales. El artículo fue publicado por primera vez aquí. This article is available in English. La implementación de programas que condicionan el acceso a servicios básicos por medio de

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Surveillance and social control: how technology reinforces structural inequality in Latin America

Picture: CC: BY (Kirill Sharkovski)-SA This article was written by Jamila Venturini from Derechos Digitales. The original version (in Spanish) is available here. How implementing social protection programmes that condition access to basic services to state and private surveillance exacerbate the

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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems

Photo by Ray Witlin / World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This article has been written by Ambika Tandon, Policy Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, in collaboration with Privacy International. On October 17th 2019 , the UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip

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UN Special Rapporteur warns that beneficiaries are forced to give up their right to privacy and data protection to receive their right to social security

Tomorrow, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will present his annual report to the UN General Assembly in New York on digital technology, social protection and human rights. On the same day, Privacy International will be launching its own series on surveillance in the

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Big Brother says ‘No’: Surveillance and income management of asylum seekers though the ASPEN Card

Governments across the world are building technologically integrated programmes to allow citizens to access welfare payments, and these could have adverse effects on those they should be supporting.