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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

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Unmasking Policing, Inc.

Governments are secretly collaborating with private companies. Here is why PI is concerned about surveillance outsourcing, and why together we urgently must expose them.

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The hidden cost of digital health services

New research from our partners at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) reveals Indian health websites and apps are sharing intimate health-related data with third parties such as Facebook and Google.

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Privacy and Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Post-Roe world

Concerning news from the US about the restriction of the right to abortion have made many reconsider their engagement with platforms processing health data. Here, we provide an overview of our research findings on the intersection of privacy and sexual and reproductive health.

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Digital health, big tech and your privacy

Introduction Harnessing new digital technology to improve people’s health is now commonplace across the world. Countries and international organisations alike are devising digital health strategies and looking to emerging technology to help solve tricky problems within healthcare. At the same time

News

22nd July 2022

Privacy and the Body: Privacy International’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attack on reproductive rights

20th July 2021

Our analysis of the WHO report on Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health

27th April 2021

Amazon Alexa/NHS contract: ICO allows partial disclosure

17th December 2020

Press Release: European Commission green lights Google and Fitbit merger in a game-changing and disappointing decision for the rights of millions of Europeans

6th August 2020

Google/Fitbit merger: more scrutiny from the EU Commission

24th June 2020

Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger

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US government bypasses CDC data tracking in favour of TeleTracking Technologies

Questions have been raised about an irregular process by which the Trump administration awarded a $10.2 million dollar six-month contract to Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies. TeleTracking has traditionally sold software to help hospitals track patient status; under the new contract it is

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PI seeks to inform report on AI and racial discrimination of the UN Special Rapporteur on racism

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Privacy International submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on racism for their upcoming report which will examine and analyse the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and non-discrimination and racial equality, as well as other international human rights standards.