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It’s time for the Prime Minister to fix shockingly lax intelligence sharing arrangements with other governments

Privacy International (PI) has today sent a detailed report and list of questions to the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, following her admission that failures in the UK system governing intelligence sharing with international partners helped facilitate the detention, retention and “appalling

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Police Scotland forced to give evidence to Scottish Parliament on intrusive mobile phone extraction technology following Privacy International's report

Following on from the publication of our ‘Digital Stop and Search’ report last month, into the use of intrusive technology that enables officers to download all of the data stored on our mobile phones, we are pleased that Scotland's Justice Sub-Committee on Policing have been scrutinising Police

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Leaflet about police tech being used in public places in the UK

The UK police use a range of sophisticated technologies that raise serious privacy concerns because of the way in which they gather huge amounts of personal information about often large numbers of people in public places. You can download the leaflet above (just right click and save) and read more

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Take part in our #spypolice campaign!

TO TAKE PART IN OUR CAMPAIGN, RIGHT CLICK ON THE PICTURES BELOW, SAVE THEM, AND SHARE THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA TAGGED #SPYPOLICE Have you ever been to a peaceful protest, demo or march? Did you assume that the police would only be identifying 'troublemakers'? How would you feel if just by turning up at

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Privacy International at the 62nd Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR)

Image was found here. As part of Privacy International’s mission, we aim to take the issues emerging from our research and that of our partners to new spaces of debate and to the attention of stakeholders at the national, regional and international level. In April 2018, Privacy International was

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UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

Press release: Privacy International issues complaint to UK Information Commissioner about police downloading data from phones of suspects, witnesses and even victims of crime without consent

We found this picture here. Privacy International has today a issued a formal complaint to the UK Information Commissioner about the police’s use of intrusive ‘mobile phone extraction’ technology, enabling them to download all of the content from a person’s phone — without a warrant, and whether

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AI tools threaten right to privacy and freedom of expression – report

Full report is available here ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International’s report provides an overview of the impact of AI technologies on freedom of expression and privacy. It calls for further study and monitoring of how AI tools impact human rights. Specifically, we call on states and companies to

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global surveillance networks report cover graphic

New Privacy International report reveals dangerous lack of oversight of secret global surveillance networks

A major new report published today by Privacy International has identified alarming weaknesses in the oversight arrangements that are supposed to govern the sharing of intelligence between state intelligence agencies. 'Secret Global Surveillance Networks: Intelligence Sharing Between Governments and

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Newly Disclosed Documents on the Five Eyes Alliance and What They Tell Us about Intelligence-Sharing Agreements

This piece was originally published in Lawfare in April 2018 The United States is party to a number of international intelligence sharing arrangements—one of the most prominent being the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance. Born from spying arrangements forged during World War II, the Five Eyes alliance

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El EPU de Colombia es una oportunidad para avanzar en el respecto del derecho a la intimidad

El 10 de mayo de 2018, en el marco del 30º período de sesiones del Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, toca la revisión de Colombia, lo que es una oportunidad Colombia y otros Estados para declarar qué acciones han tomado para mejorar la

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Colombia’s UPR is an opportunity to improve the protection of the right to privacy

On 10 May 2018, Colombia’s human right record will be reviewed as part of the 30th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights

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TACD calls on Facebook to adopt same privacy standards for all consumers and give details on how to Congress

Today, the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) sent a letter to the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, urging Facebook to adopt the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a baseline standard, not just for EU consumers as it is required, but for all Facebook services. The letter comes ahead

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A Snapshot of Corporate Profiling

We found the image here. When we browse the internet, go to work, drive down the street, go shopping, interact with institutions, or simply move through the city, data is collected about us. Advanced profiling technologies answer questions we did not raise. They generate knowledge we did not

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Human rights and technology: building a modern rights movement one fellow at a time

We found the image here. You’d be hard pressed to find an issue relating to human rights or the rule of law that wouldn’t benefit from a greater appreciation of the role of technology plays. Increasingly the practice of law, the waging of politics, and the conduct of social and economic affairs all

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How our smartphones became the new frontier for police stop and search

This op-ed originally appeared in the New Statesman. Imagine the police searching your home without good reason, without a warrant, without your knowledge. For good measure let’s also imagine that they take a full inventory of all of your possessions and store this in a secret database indefinitely

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UK Police Can Download The Contents Of Our Phones Without A Warrant - What Can Be Done?

This op-ed originally appeared in the Huffington Post. As technologies used by the police race ahead of outdated legislation, we are left vulnerable to potential for misuse and abuse of our data The vast quantities of data we generate every minute of the day and how it can be exploited is