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Investigating brands using Facebook for advertising, exposing how difficult it is to understand how our data's used and demanding Facebook make it easier to exercise our rights

Google wants to know everything about you. It already holds a massive trove of data about you, but it now also wants to get its hands on your health data too. We don’t think any company should be allowed to accumulate this much intimate information about us. This is why we’re trying to stop its merger with Fitbit and saying ’NOT ON OUR WATCH’!

UK local authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, as part of their intelligence gathering and investigation tactics in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests and demonstrations.

In some cases, local authorities will go so far as to use such information to make accusations of fraud and withhold urgently needed support from families who are living in extreme poverty.

In the rush to respond to Covid-19 and its aftermath, government and companies are exploiting data with few safeguards. PI is acting to ensure that this crisis isn't abused.

Buying a brand new low-cost phone can leave you with an outdated operating system and exploitative apps.

Below are all the campaigns that are in progress.

Our data stored in the cloud is increasingly sought after by law enforcement agencies. Increasingly, it is obtained using ‘cloud extraction technologies’.

Privacy may seem like an abstract concept, but for many people and communities, government and corporate use of digital technologies can seriously compromise their privacy and have grave consequences for their safety. Whether it’s migrants crossing borders or environmentalists protesting against oil companies, at the heart of all of our campaigns is a focus on empowering individuals in the face of state and corporate power.

If we don’t intervene, people will lose control over their data and identities, and will become pawns in a bigger ecosystem in which they have no say, no agency and no power. We call for new safeguards, reductions in risks especially to targeted and marginalised communities, and meaningful rights of redress.

We expose the over-reaching surveillance regimes of governments and statutory bodies, as well as how they outsource and work closely with the corporate sector in both developing surveillance capabilities and sharing our data. We litigate and make complaints to regulators and data protection authorities, to hold state bodies to account.