Expose Data Exploitation: Data, Profiling, and Decision Making

Exposing companies' generation, collection, and exploitation of people's personal information.

Our Advocacy

Advocacy

Submission to the FCA on Credit Reference Agencies

Advocacy

Letter to the DCMS Sub-Committee on Disinformation - data brokers need to be investigated

Acxiom The Great Hack

Advocacy

Privacy International’s response to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights

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Advocacy

PI joins open letter to Facebook regarding ads transparency

Dear FB

Legal Case Description

Smart Meter Cartoon

Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville

Advocacy

Submission to US Department of State regarding collection of social media information

Submission to US Department of State regarding collection of social media information

Advocacy

Privacy International's Comments To The Article 29 Working Party Guidelines On Automated Individual Decision-Making And Profiling

Privacy International's Comments To The Article 29 Working Party Guidelines On Automated Individual Decision-Making And Profiling

Advocacy

Submission to the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Submission to the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Advocacy

Submission To Department Of Homeland Security, Privacy Office (USA), Regarding DHS Social Media Retention Policy

Submission To Department Of Homeland Security, Privacy Office (USA), Regarding DHS Social Media Retention Policy

Advocacy

Submission Of Evidence To The House Of Lords Select Committee On Artificial Intelligence

Submission Of Evidence To The House Of Lords Select Committee On Artificial Intelligence

Advocacy

Letter to Cambridge Analytica on 2017 Kenya Election

Kenya ballot

Educational and Explanatory

Explainer

What are smart cities?!

What are smart cities?!

Video

Video: How Companies Exploit Your Data

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Video

Video: What is Data Exploitation?

Video: What is Data Exploitation?

Video

Video: What Is Big Data?

big data meets Big Brother

Explainer

Big Data

Big Data

Case Study: The Myth of Free Wi-Fi

Case Study

Case Study: The Myth of Free Wi-Fi

Case Study: Connected Cars And The Future Of Car Travel In The Digital Age

Case Study

Case Study: Connected Cars And The Future Of Car Travel In The Digital Age

Explainer

Social Media Intelligence

socmint

Explainer

101: Integrated Policing

Integrated Policing

Case Study: Smart Cities and Our Brave New World

Case Study

Case Study: Smart Cities and Our Brave New World

Case Study: Super-Apps and the Exploitative Potential of Mobile Applications

Case Study

Case Study: Super-Apps and the Exploitative Potential of Mobile Applications

Case Study: The Myth of Device Control and the Reality of Data Exploitation

Case Study

Case Study: The Myth of Device Control and the Reality of Data Exploitation

Case Study: Connected Cars and the Future of Car Travel in the Digital Age

Case Study

Case Study: Connected Cars and the Future of Car Travel in the Digital Age

Case Study: Profiling and Elections - How Political Campaigns Know Our Deepest Secrets

Case Study

Case Study: Profiling and Elections - How Political Campaigns Know Our Deepest Secrets

Case Study: Fintech and the Financial Exploitation of Customer Data

Case Study

Case Study: Fintech and the Financial Exploitation of Customer Data

Reports and Analysis

Long Read

Social media companies have failed to provide adequate advertising transparency to users globally

Social media companies have failed to provide adequate advertising transparency to users globally

Long Read

How difficult is it to understand why you’re seeing a political ad on social media?

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Long Read

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra: Not to be Confused with Libre

Scales of Libra

Long Read

How the UK Conservative Leadership Race is Latest Example of Political Data Exploitation

PI Video

Long Read

Spanish elections under the new data protection law: use of personal data by political parties?

Ballot Box

Long Read

Data Privacy Week: Confronting the Corporate Gaze

Magnifying glass over social media icons and profiles

Long Read

Exclusion and identity: life without ID

Old Chilean ID card

Long Read

Fintech’s dirty little secret? Lenddo, Facebook and the challenge of identity

Social network

Long Read

Five ways your privacy is compromised without you realising

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Long Read

Identity, discrimination, and the challenge of ID

"Management takes no responsibility for your personal belonging"

Long Read

Who supplies the data, analysis, and tech infrastructure to US immigration authorities?

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Long Read

Going beyond transparency

Going beyond transparency

Long Read

It’s about human dignity and autonomy

It’s about human dignity and autonomy

Long Read

UK regulator indicts data ecosystem, fines Facebook maximum possible amount, and warns UK political parties against exploiting people's data

UK regulator indicts data ecosystem, fines Facebook maximum possible amount, and warns UK political parties against exploiting people's data

Long Read

Updated - Thomson Reuters Selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Access to Data

Thomson Reuters Selling ICE Access to Data

News and Updates

News & Analysis

Give Google an inch and they’ll take a mile!

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News & Analysis

Google wants to acquire Fitbit, and we shouldn’t let it!

fitbit

News & Analysis

Use of 2FA information for commercial purposes is unacceptable

Twitter Headquarters - Christinatt (photo by Troy Holden)

News & Analysis

Review of 'The Great Hack' documentary

The Great Hack publicity still

News & Analysis

Choose your own (data) future

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News & Analysis

Grindr and US national security: why it is time we start caring for the privacy of all users

Grindr

News

Why Am I seeing this on Facebook? It's still unclear.

Facebook

News & Analysis

Guess what? Facebook still tracks you on Android apps (even if you don't have a Facebook account)

Facebook still tracks you on Android apps

News & Analysis

PI calls for urgent action following UK Parliament 'fake news' report

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News & Analysis

We don’t want to sell our data, we want data rights!

Data exploitation machine

News & Analysis

Statement on CNIL Google GDPR fine

Money image

News & Analysis

Tech executives are testifying in Congress today — monopolies, power, and data

Tech executives are testifying in Congress today — monopolies, power, and data

News & Analysis

Privacy win! US court says Fourth Amendment protects smart meter data

Smart meter

News & Analysis

The Data Arms Race Is No Excuse for Abandoning Privacy

The Data Arms Race Is No Excuse for Abandoning Privacy

Press release

PI joins 20+ organisations to ask European data protection authorities to investigate whether companies are acting in accordance with GDPR

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