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Report: From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy

Whose privacy are we fighting for when we say we defend the right to privacy? In this report we take a hard look at the right to privacy and its reality for women, trans and gender diverse people. We highlight how historically privacy has been appropriated by patriarchal rule and systems of

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Facebook Must Explain What it's Doing With Your Phone Number

6 March 2019 Privacy International (PI) has written Facebook to express our concern and request urgent answers regarding its policy on the sharing of mobile phone numbers of its users. Alarmingly, recent reports say that some of the phone numbers provided by users for the express purpose of two

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Every Police force in the UK will soon use body worn video cameras to record us in public

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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The police are increasingly using facial recognition cameras in public to spy on us

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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The police can use IMSI catchers to track your phone, and even intercept your calls and messages

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The questions the new company vying for border dominance in the US needs to answer

As calls for a ‘secure southern border’ are amplified in the US by politicians and pundits, Silicon Valley techies are coming out in force to proffer swanky digital solutions in the place of 30-foot steel slats or concrete blocks. One such company is Anduril Industries, named after a sword in Lord

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How you can contact your Police and Crime Commissioner about your local police force's use of surveillance tech

UPDATED 11TH JUNE 2019: We've just launched our campaign, and you can now write to your local PCC easily using the online portal we have created with Liberty. (In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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Wrapping Up Data Privacy Week 2019

Over the past year, the Privacy International Network has uncovered, campaigned, and advocated on how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. To celebrate Data Privacy Day on 28 January, we shared a full week of stories and research, exploring

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We Need to Fix the ‘Data Wild West’

During the last World Economic Forum in Davos, the CEO of Microsoft joined the chorus of voices calling for new global privacy rules, saying the following in regard to the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): “My own point of view is that it's a fantastic start in treating privacy

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Data Privacy Week: For Better or Worse, Privacy is High on the Global Agenda

The Privacy International Network is celebrating Data Privacy Week, where we’ll be talking about how trends in surveillance and data exploitation are increasingly affecting our right to privacy. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek. Since 2014, the Privacy International Network

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