News and Analysis

“We always assume we are being watched. It is part of our understanding,” explained Father Alberto. The clergyman knows what it's like to live under surveillance. Father Alberto is Executive Secretary of the Inter-ecclesiastical Commission for Justice and Peace in Colombia, which supports displaced

Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US' National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested from Pakistani telecommunications providers for an analysis exercise. The United Kingdom's Government

On July 6th, the company Hacking Team was hacked: over 400GB of administrative documents, source code and emails are now available for download. Documents from the hack confirm once again the claims made in our report Their Eyes on Me, the Moroccan intelligence services made use of Hacking Team's

Here are eight things we have learned from this week's hack of some 400GB of internal company material and correspondence from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team. The Citizen Lab was right The Citizen Lab, who in 2014 identified some 21 countries that are potential customers of Hacking Team

Privacy International and twenty-two other organisations from around the world welcome the appointment of Mr Joseph Cannataci as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. Today, the President of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Mr Cannataci to fill the post that was created by

The Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports (CAUSE) has today released a new policy paper calling on the EU to take the opportunity to update its Dual Use Regulation to ensure that surveillance technologies are not exported from Europe and used for human rights violations. The proposals have

A groundbreaking report released today by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, calls on states to ensure security and privacy online by providing “comprehensive protection” through encryption and anonymity tools, warning that blanket measures to restrict online privacy

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