News and Analysis

The Swiss Federal Council has introduced a major amendment to its export licensing legislation in order to ensure surveillance technologies that might be used for human rights abuses are not exported from Switzerland. What this means is that Swiss authorities must reject companies’ requests to

UPDATE (21st July 2015): The deadline for submissions was Monday 20 July, 2015. Privacy International has been working hard since the proposed rule was announced to analyse its potential effectiveness and any potential effects the proposed rule could have for security research. UPDATE (12th June)

There is a common practice within the surveillance industry that makes the already murky market even harder to track: collaborating companies. Within Privacy International's Surveillance Industry Index there are 83 documents detailing collaborations between companies involved in developing and

Lebanon was part of the drafting committee for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and by co-sponsoring both UN General Assembly resolutions on the right to privacy in the digital age ( December 2013 and December 2014), Lebanon has recently reaffirmed its commitment to its obligations to

This guest blog is written by Hisham Almiraat, co-founder of Mamfakinch.com and Director of the 'Association des droits numériques' (ADN), an organisation working on human rights and technology in Morocco. Mamfakinch was launched in February 2011, in the wake of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions

Privacy laws around the world are under threat by ambitious governments and voracious industry. Sixty-six privacy, digital rights and consumer rights organisations from around the world have joined forces to push back against attempts to weaken European privacy legislation. The coalition today wrote

The central premise of international intelligence cooperation is that states are able to both access valuable partner information to protect their national security, and focus their own resources elsewhere in a mutually beneficial way. But is it really a quid-pro-quo partnership? As the Intercept

Investigations by Privacy International in co-operation with VICE Motherboard, reveal that Hacking Team has sold its Remote Control System to the US Drug Enforcement Agency and US military via a front company based in the US. The investigation catalogues what is known about Hacking Team’s intrusive

Following the successful adoption of the resolution to establish a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, attention now turns to identifying highly qualified individuals for the position. All applicants must submit an application for the mandate through the Office of the High Commissioner

Privacy International today is releasing a report about surveillance in Morocco, featuring four interviews with individuals who have been subjected to state surveillance. Stepping away from our traditional approach to documenting surveillance, we decided to give a platform to the people who have

The French Government unveiled a new Bill that aims at providing a legal framework to intelligence services last Friday. While Privacy International welcomes the positive step of placing powers that were until now poorly regulated under the law, we remain alarmed by many aspects of this Bill. Two