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Surveillance Industry Finally Facing Scrutiny, but Will it Change Anything?

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Infrared temperature screening

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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target?

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Locating Privacy in the Right to Protest Pakistan

New report mapping the on-ground experiences of local activists in Pakistan. It documents and analyses collective and personal privacy issues faced by civic organisers and protestors.

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International Safe Abortion Day 2023

Introduction The 28th of September marks International Safe Abortion Day. It remains a day necessary to mobilise and raise awareness of the continued struggles women and girls face when accessing reproductive healthcare, including

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Restraining protest surveillance: When should surveillance of protesters become unlawful?

PI has published a report advocating for 12 human rights-based legal standards to limit surveillance by police and law enforcement at protests. Our report explains how these standards are rooted in the rights to privacy and freedom of assembly and illustrates why these specific legal limits are necessary at every stage of a protest.

News

5th December 2022

EU Watchdog Finds Commission Failed to Protect Human Rights From its Surveillance Aid to African Countries

18th March 2022

The Clearview/Ukraine partnership - How surveillance companies exploit war

27th January 2022

Data Protection Impact Assessments and ID systems: the 2021 Kenyan ruling on Huduma Namba

19th August 2021

Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

12th May 2021

How Priti Patel needs to fix the Aspen Card

10th February 2021

The Hostile Environment is incompatible with public health: PI joins the Vaccine For All campaign

Examples of Abuse

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Student monitoring persists post-pandemic

Even though schools are back in session in person, their teachers can still monitor the screens on their school-issued devices via software such as GoGuardian. In a new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology, 89% of teachers say their schools will continue to use student-monitoring

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Our Advocacy

PI's submission the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom assembly 2023

Summary

Privacy International's response to the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on the tools and guidelines which may assist law enforcement in promoting and protecting human rights in the context of peaceful protests