Advocacy

PI provided input to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in their consultation on the rights of people with disabilities

Among the myriad of surveillance powers it already possesses, the UK government wants the power to stop companies - anywhere in the world - from making security improvements to their services without approval. To fall under this power, the company only has to service UK users, and yet the effects will be felt by every user, every where.

PI provided input to the UN Secretary General's Report on the Human Rights of Migrants, calling for better protection of migrants against uses of technology for border governance and immigration control.

Privacy International submitted a written response to Lord David Anderson's call for comments relating to his review of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

In this joint submission, Privacy International (PI) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) provide observations and recommendations on the proposed draft text of the UN Cybercrime Convention for the August 2023 session.

PI’s submission regarding Colombia’s compliance with the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights highlights concerns regarding changes in electoral law, the continued surveillance of human rights defenders, and the emergence of new OSINT tactics.

During the 53rd Ordinary Session of the Human Rights Council, on 22 June 2023, Privacy International participated in the inter-active dialogue on the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health on the theme of “Digital innovation, technologies and the right to health”.

PI published its comments on the Bureau’s text of the WHO’s Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response accord (“WHO CA+”) which will be discussed by the WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) from 12-16 June 2023.

On 2 May and 5 June 2023, PI made a submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission, respectively, in relation to the proposed merger between Amazon and iRobot, outlining the concerns the transaction raises for consumers and markets.

Privacy International joined a group of civil society organisations to respond to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the forthcoming Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

The text of the draft Regulation should be improved with amendments to ensure that current company practices do not result in serious harms for consumers or negatively impact devices’ sustainability.

The European Commission’s initiative for a ‘Security-related information sharing system between frontline officers in the EU and key partner countries’ is a further development along the path of problematic border externalisation, and a trend of increasing use of large-scale processing of the personal data of non-EU citizens for combined criminal law and immigration control purposes, that civil society has been speaking out against for years. PI and others filed a joint submission to the consultation.

Privacy International (PI) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) provide observations and recommendations on the proposed consolidated negotiating document for the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, which is due to consider the text in April 2023. Our submission covers provisions in the chapters related to the preamble and international cooperation of the proposed UN Cybercrime treaty (full title: comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.”) We also provide comments on Article 42 in the criminal procedural measures and law enforcement chapter discussed in the fourth session, as it is of significance to the international cooperation chapter.

PI response to call for inputs for a thematic study by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on “new technologies and enforced disappearances”

PI published its comments on the zero draft of the WHO’s Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response accord (“WHO CA+”) which will be discussed by the WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) between 27 February and 3 March 2023.

Ten civil society organisations submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights