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Dear will.i.am, We saw your piece in the Economist and were very excited to learn that you care about privacy as much as we do. At PI we expose government and corporate bad behaviours, we disrupt their plans, and identify a hopeful path forward. That’s why we very much agree with you that people
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Over the past year, the Privacy International Network has uncovered, campaigned, and advocated on how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. To celebrate Data Privacy Day on 28 January, we shared a full week of stories and research, exploring
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During the last World Economic Forum in Davos, the CEO of Microsoft joined the chorus of voices calling for new global privacy rules, saying the following in regard to the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): “My own point of view is that it's a fantastic start in treating privacy
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The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. Since 2014, the Privacy International Network
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The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. Innovations in surveillance and data
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The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. In the era of smart cities, the gap between the
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The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. It is no mystery that data exploitation is part
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The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. It is often communities who are already the most
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Campaigners are today calling for urgent action to allow Palestinians to develop an independent telecommunications infrastructure following the release of a report detailing how the Israeli government exerts its existing control to rule and monitor the online lives of Palestinian people. ‘Connection
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Privacy International welcomes the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Catt v the United Kingdom. The Court found that the UK violated the right to privacy (Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) of Mr John Catt, a peace movement activist, who despite having never being
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On 22 January 2019 Google updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for Europe. The message is quite reassuring: “Nothing about your experience in Google services will change. And nothing is changing in terms of your privacy settings, the way your data is processed, nor the purposes of its
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We found this image here. In order for GDPR to be effective at protecting people's data, it must be implemented and enforced. Therefore, we are pleased to see that CNIL has taken action and issued Google a fine of €50 million based on complaints by NOYB and La Quadrature Du Net in May 2018. Despite
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Federal law enforcement is deploying powerful computer hacking tools to conduct domestic criminal and immigration investigations. By Alex Betschen, Student Attorney, Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic, University at Buffalo School of Law Hacking by the government raises grave privacy concerns
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 21, 2018 CONTACTS: Alex Betschen, Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic, [email protected], 716–531–6649 Colton Kells, Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic, [email protected], 585–766–5119 Abdullah Hasan, ACLU, [email protected], 646–905–8879 NEW YORK — Privacy
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Photo credit: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement The trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman started in New York back in November 2018. But last week, the jurors were presented with a trove of new key evidence: dozens of text messages exchanged between Guzman, his wife, and his
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European leaders met last week in Brussels to discuss what is supposed to be two separate issues, the next trillion euro-plus budget and migration. In truth, no such separation exists: driven by nationalists and a political mainstream unable to offer any alternative but to implement their ideas, the