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It is time that these companies - which operate within the hidden data ecosystem - receive the attention and scrutiny they deserve. Our campaign to uncover this hidden data ecosystem began on 25 May 2018  the day the new EU data privacy law - GDPR - came into force. We will be using the law as a tool to investigate and hold to account a range of data companies that facilitate mass data exploitation.

Capita PLC must stop profiting from the UK’s 'hostile environment'

Creators who produce content for big online platforms, from video game livestreamers on Twitch to adult content producers on platforms like OnlyFans, often find themselves forced to share a lot of data, putting their privacy and security at risk while being given limited information as to how this data is being used.

Identity systems create and facilitate exclusion, insecurity, and surveillance.

The United Nations have initiated a process to negotiate an international treaty on cybercrime (more specifically, a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes). An open-ended, ad hoc intergovernmental committee of experts (Ad Hoc Committee) was established to conduct the negotiations which are expected to continue until at least the end of 2023. The Ad Hoc Committee shall convene at least six sessions, of 10 days each, to commence in January 2022, as well as a concluding session in New York, and conclude its work in order to provide a draft convention to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session (i.e. in 2024).

PI believes that cybercrime can pose a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. At the same time, we are concerned that cybercrime laws, policies and practices are currently being used to undermine human rights. This is why we are actively participating in the UN negotiations to ensure that any proposed cybercrime treaty includes human rights safeguards applicable to both its substantive and procedural provisions.

Fighting the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK's 'hostile environment'

Students shouldn’t have to trade their right to privacy in order to access their right to an education.

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.

Whether 'big tech’ companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, or surveillance tech firms and data brokers that you have never heard of, PI examines how their practices impacts on your privacy and autonomy. Whether they are exploring sharing your data without your consent, or developing ever more intrusive surveillance technologies, we campaign for strong regulation and better protections for the public.