PI’s submission on the Use of Technology in the Operations and Activities of Mercenaries, Mercenary-Related Actors and Private Military and Security Companies
Our key recommendations during the UN Informal Exchanges on Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and its Implications for International Peace and Security held in Geneva, 15-17 June 2026
New EU Commission rules extend a formal presumption of confidentiality to proceedings under the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act without citing any supporting court authority. Civil-society groups warn that these changes weaken public oversight at a time when lobbying by large technology companies is intensifying.
Privacy International and global allies are engaging in the drafting process of an ILO Convention and Recommendation concerning decent work in the platform economy.
Privacy International provided a submission to inform the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 58/23 on “Human rights defenders and new and emerging technologies: protecting human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, in the digital age”.
PI proposes targeted edits to embed the right to privacy throughout the Revised Fifth Draft Instrument, addressing PMSCs' growing use of surveillance technologies.
Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation as well as raising privacy concerns, particularly for minoritised groups.
Anyone's personal data could end up training a lethal algorithm — and most of us would never know. A binding international instrument regulating AWS should embed strong privacy and data protection safeguards.
Privacy International responded to the inquiry of the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights to examine how human rights can be protected in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Privacy International's recommendations for improving transparency and explainability for algorithmic decisions at work, including concrete and detailed examples of best practices for platforms to implement.
Privacy International, the European Disability Forum, and a Finnish Disability forum representative issue statement warning that Finland's new social welfare legal reforms pose threats to human rights, including the right to privacy.
AI in counter terrorism drives intrusive surveillance and unreliable risk scoring that can wrongly target individuals. Strong safeguards are essential because these systems amplify privacy harms and discriminatory outcomes.
Privacy International submitted a response to the UK Home Office consultation on a legal framework for law enforcement use of use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies.
Privacy International provided input to the forthcoming thematic report of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association on the 'Impact of digital and AI-assisted surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects'.
After the UK data protection authority founded that the UK Government’s GPS tagging of migrants arriving to the UK by small boats and other “irregular” routes was unlawful, PI continued to monitor and research the Home Office's policies and practices relating to the GPS tagging of migrants. In this piece we present our findings.
The UK parliamentary committee’s report following their investigation into electronic monitoring and GPS tagging questions its use in the context of immigration and highlights the ethical and legal concerns of this practice, as raised by PI.
