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Podcast: How misleading health info can spread from online discussions to policy and legislative debates

PI's Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project speaks with Dr. Subasri Narasimhan and Dr. Dabney Evans from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in the US about their paper which documents how misleading health information about reproductive health can flow into policy and legislative debates.

Press release

Press release: MI6 apologise for asking court staff to withhold evidence from Judges in case about crimes by covert agents

MI6 has been forced to apologise to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after two of its officers asked court staff to return documents relating to MI6’s use of agents and not show them to judges. The Tribunal suggested MI6’s actions were “inappropriate interference”. The revelation emerged in an

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Why immunity passports aren't the key to lockdown

Podcast: Immunity Passports

This week we talk to a whole host of guests, including María Paz Canales - Executive Director of Derechos Digitales, about the issues with coronavirus immunity passports and whether the digital ID industry is capable of rising to the moment.

News & Analysis

New Report on “The Use of Biometric Data to Identify Terrorists: Best Practice or Risky Business?"

Key findings of the report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Dr. Krisztina Huszti-Orbán on the Use of Biometric Data to Identify Terrorists

Long Read

The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity

A digital ID that proves immunity will raise serious human rights issues. And the failure of the digital ID industry to deal with the issues of exclusion, exploitation and discrimination puts the entire industry under question.

Explainer

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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

Everything you wanted to know about immunity passports for Covid-19.

Key Resources

Covid-19 response: immunity passports

Immunity passports could involve the restricting peoples' liberties of individuals on the basis of their' immunity status, or lack of it.

News & Analysis

Universal credit ruling: a victory for welfare in Britain

A recent ruling by the British Court of Appeal sided with welfare claimants after a flaw in the income calculating system was revealed.

News & Analysis

New UN High Commissioner report highlights the impact new technologies have on the right to protest

At a time where the mass surveillance of protests has been at the forefront, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released a timely report on the impact of new technologies on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of assemblies, including peaceful protests. The new report

Long Read

The Corona Contracts: Public-Private Partnerships and the Need for Transparency

No Tech For Tyrants, a UK grassroots organisation, is explaining Palantir's involvement with the UK government, including their partnership with the NHS. They explore the concerns public-private partnerships between Palantir and governments raise , and what this means for our rights.

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Podcast: Google/Fitbit merger? Not on our watch

Why do Google want to buy Fitbit? What do they get out of it? And why should competition regulators be concerned?

Case Study

King’s Cross has been watching you - and the police helped

Police forces in the UK started trialing facial recognition technology in public events a few years ago, but are taking a step further in the questionable use of this extremely intrusive technology.

Long Read

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One Ring to watch them all

Surveillance partnerships between Amazon Ring and law-enforcement around the world create an interconnected surveillance network that poses a serious threat to our privacy and other freedoms.

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Case Study

Huawei infiltration in Uganda

Unwanted Witness, our partner organisation based in Uganda, explore critical questions around Huawei's surveillance dealings with the Ugandan government raise. While Huawei's relationship with the government raises concerns for human rights, many of these concerns remain unaddressed.

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Case Study

“Thousands of Cameras” - a citizen response to mass biometric surveillance

SHARE, an organisation based in Belgrade, are investigating Huawei's dealings with the Serbian government. In this case study, they explain what obstacles they faced and how they used public action to overcome them.

News & Analysis

Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger

Google knows so much about you, and now it wants your health data too. Read our ‘Pass Notes’ for a quick summary of the issues and then please join our campaign to stop them!