Reports

Reports, Long Reads, Country Reports

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Pakistan

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Pakistan. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Morocco

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Morocco. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Mexico

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Mexico. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Kenya

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Kenya. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Jordan

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Jordan. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Indonesia

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Indonesia. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy India

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in India. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Egypt

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Egypt. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Brazil

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Brazil. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Chile

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Chile. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

State of Privacy

State of Privacy Argentina

A study of privacy and surveillance issues in Argentina. The State of Privacy project was last updated on January 2019, unless otherwise provided on specific pages.

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How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook (even if you don’t have a Facebook account) - Cover

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that 34 apps on Android, each with an install base from 10 to 500 million, transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.

Long Read

Exclusion and identity: life without ID

Photo credit: Francisco Javier Argel Questions of identification and ID, with their associated privacy risks, are only increasing. There are multiple dimensions to understanding the impact of ID and identification; a key one is to understand how it can exclude. This is why Privacy International is

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The Humanitarian Metadata Problem - Doing No Harm in the Digital Era

New technologies continue to present great risks and opportunities for humanitarian action. To ensure that their use does not result in any harm, humanitarian organisations must develop and implement appropriate data protection standards, including robust risk assessments. However, this requires a

Long Read

Join our Supreme Court challenge against mass government hacking

As our four year battle against the UK government’s extraordinarily broad and intrusive hacking powers goes to the Supreme Court, we are launching a new fundraising appeal in partnership with CrowdJustice. We are seeking to raise £5k towards our costs and need your help. If we lose, the court may

Report

Perception Survey on Communication Surveillance and Privacy of Human Rights Defenders in Kenya

In December 2018, the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Kenya published a report analysing the needs and concerns of human rights defenders (HRD) in relation to privacy, data protection and communications surveillance. A summary of their findings is below. Access the full report on their