Reports

Reports, Long Reads, Country Reports

Key Resources

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable on May 25th 2018. Since then, complaints against the AdTech industry are piling up, attacking intrusive tracking and profiling practices, unfairly obtained consent and insufficient legal basis, all of which we consider to infringe GDPR. This timeline is a list of some of the key actions taken against this ecosystem, a reminder of the challenges that AdTech companies are facing and a demonstration that GDPR still has to be implemented and enforced.

Report

The Defenders Coalition has undertaken a survey of HRDs across Kenya to understand their level of exposure and their perception of communication surveillance.

Long Read

Following the publication of their investigation guide, we asked the DWP how the people they investigate get flagged. The answer? By an algorithm.

Long Read

In 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations. Privacy International went through the 995 pages to understand how those investigations happen and how the DWP is surveilling benefits claimants suspected of fraud.

Long Read

Your personal data can be collected by companies from many different sources and shaped into a "secret identity". This is when companies use information about you to assume your personality traits and predict your behaviour, and sell this profile onto others. But who are the companies behind this practice?

Long Read

Hablamos con representantes de organizaciones transgénero en Argentina, Francia y en Filipinas para entender cómo los sistemas de identificación están impactando sus vidas, y los marcos legales que les están ayudando.

Long Read

We spoke to trans-right activists in three country: the Philippines, France and Argentina to understand how ID systems in their countries are impacting their lives and how certain legal frameworks may help them.

 

Long Read

We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us.

Long Read

Could private companies be the only ones really profitting from digital welfare? This overview looks at the big players.

Long Read

Privacy International and other campaigners are demanding that the EU enact urgent reforms to development aid and cooperation programmes after disclosures reveal their extensive use to train and equip security forces with surveillance techniques.

Long Read

Hundreds of slides obtained by Privacy International (PI) from an EU law enforcement training agency show how surveillance techniques are taught to security authorities in neighbouring countries.

Long Read

Documents obtained by Privacy International (PI) detail how EU agencies ‘outsource’ border controls to neighbouring countries.

Report

A review of how the data analytics company has embedded itself throughout the UK.

Long Read
As more and more of us feel compelled to cover our faces with masks, companies that work on facial recognition are confronted with a new challenge: how to make their products relevant in an era where masks have gone from being seen as the attribute of those trying to hide to the accessory of good
Advocacy

PI’s submission highlights traditional and modern obstacles to the full and equal realisation of sexual and reproductive rights

Key Resources

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