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Tech giants do not face enough competition, new report says

A panel of competition experts has confirmed that tech giants, like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft, do not face enough competition. We welcome the recommendations contained in the report, and we urge significant caution when it comes to solutions that will provide other companies with access to customers' data troves.

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How your social media activity is monitored by the police

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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Reclaiming privacy: a feminist manifesto

At Privacy International, we talk about: “the world being on fire.”We say it to talk about the recurring threats to our democracies, the elections of authoritarian leaders, the current political climate… Or the actual climate. More often than not, we use it to talk about the (lack of) security in

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Reclaiming the right to privacy: an opportunity to challenge gender inequality

Image source: Oxfam This piece was co-authored with Ruhiya Seward, Senior Program Officer at IDRC and originally appeared here. What if in trying to make development more equitable we’re creating risks that disproportionately impact people based on their gender? Development programming aims to be

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online gender based violence a privacy issue

#IWD2019 Online gender-based violence: a privacy matter?

For International Women’s Day 2019, Privacy International looks at some of the key themes around the intersection of gender rights and the right to privacy and we review the work we and our partners have done on those topics. When dealing with cases of non-consensual sharing of intimate images

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Podcast: Trans identity in Manila

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In this first episode of the Gender and Privacy Series, we go to Manila in the Philippines to meet two transgender right activists - Naomi Fontanos and AR Arcon. We discuss what the right to privacy means to them and their fight against the government's plan to

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Podcast: Sex and the Cyber

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In the third episode of the Gender and Privacy Series, we talk about sex and privacy with two female activists: Sarah Jamie Lewis, an expert on the security of internet-connected sex toys, and Joana Varon, founder of the female-led Brazilian NGO Coding Rights

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Guess what? Facebook still tracks you on Android apps (even if you don't have a Facebook account)

We retested all the apps from our December 2019 report that showed leakages to Facebook.

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Every Police force in the UK will soon use body worn video cameras to record us in public

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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The police are increasingly using facial recognition cameras in public to spy on us

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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PI calls for urgent action following UK Parliament 'fake news' report

Privacy International welcomes the focus on data and privacy contained in the final report by the UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) on Disinformation and ‘fake news’. Beyond our control, companies and political parties have banded together to exploit our data

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The police can use IMSI catchers to track your phone, and even intercept your calls and messages

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The questions the new company vying for border dominance in the US needs to answer

As calls for a ‘secure southern border’ are amplified in the US by politicians and pundits, Silicon Valley techies are coming out in force to proffer swanky digital solutions in the place of 30-foot steel slats or concrete blocks. One such company is Anduril Industries, named after a sword in Lord

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How you can contact your Police and Crime Commissioner about your local police force's use of surveillance tech

UPDATED 11TH JUNE 2019: We've just launched our campaign, and you can now write to your local PCC easily using the online portal we have created with Liberty. (In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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EBPB reminds national data protection authorities to exercise their powers proportionally and in respect of fundamental rights

EDPB reminds national data protection authorities to exercise their powers proportionally and in respect of fundamental rights

At the beginning of November 2018, the first GDPR-related privacy and freedom of expression case arose in Romania in connection to the publication by the RISE Project of several articles about a corruption investigation. The articles reported a close relationship between a road construction company

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One of the UN's largest aid programmes just signed a deal with the CIA-backed data monolith Palantir

Last week, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) announced a partnership with Palantir, the controversial US-based data analytics company with deep links to US intelligence agencies. This is a deal that has serious consequences for the privacy and security of the 90-million-plus recipients of WFP aid