Advocacy

On 21 February 2025, Privacy International, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Carter Center convened an expert roundtable to examine the international human rights implications of digital technologies in elections.

Privacy International and other civil society organisations are calling on the ILO to protect workers from algorithmic harms by adopting legally binding standards on decent work in the platform economy. 

PI raises questions regarding the lack of adequate data protection safeguards, algorithmic bias and discrimination, as well as shortcomings in meaningful human control and judgment.

The UK government has used its surveillance to issue a Technical Capability notice to Apple to hand over encrypted iCloud data, threatening the privacy and security of users all over the world. We are demanding transparency. 

Privacy International, Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), ICJ-Kenya, Haki Na Sheria Initiative and STOPAIDS submitted a joint stakeholder report to the 49th session of the Universal Periodic Review regarding Kenya's review. 

Our joint submission raised issues regarding elections, health and economic and social justice.

Privacy International (PI), STOPAIDS, The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP), Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), Haki na Sheria Initiative (HSI) and ICJ-Kenya (Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists) submitted a joint stakeholder report ahead of the 77th Session of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in relation to the consideration of Kenya’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR.)

The submission covers issues related to our organisation’s work on health and economic and social justice.

Privacy International submitted a stakeholder report ahead of the 77th Session of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in relation to the consideration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Our submission covers issues relating to our work on migration, health, economic and social justice and edtech. 

Fundación Karisma and Privacy International made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in response to the Call for submissions on Colombia in advance of his country visit.

Our response to UK's consultation on codes of practices under the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 (IPAA)

12 organisations across the EU and the UK are calling on food delivery platforms to respect their workforce, and improve the transparency and explainability around the algorithms they use. 

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is preparing an opinion on AI models, following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission. This opinion is expected to cover how personal data is processed at various stages of the training and operation of an AI model and what legal basis can be relied on for that processing. 

PI submitted its views to the Board ahead of it releasing its opinion. 

Following a debate in the UK parliament on police use of facial recognition technology we wrote to the MPs who intervened calling on them to expedite this matter further by tabling questions to members of the government.

In this piece, we unpack the responses received from UK Members of Parliament between November 2023 and June 2024 following the initial launch of our campaign “The End of Privacy in Public”, and discuss the current state of regulation of FRT in the UK. In doing so, we reiterate our call for FRT’s use to be effectively regulated.

The expansion of facial recognition in educational spaces raises serious human rights concerns, urging states to ban the technology and implementers to stop using it.