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Rights Defenders and Journalists

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

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Never heard of TrueCaller? They might have heard about you. Here is how you can unlist yourself

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Protecting the Protectors: a case from Colombia

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The organisation who put us in touch with Claudia is called Media Defence, they are an international human rights organisation which provides legal defence to journalists, citizen journalists and independent media around the world who are under threat for their reporting. Find out more

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Briefing: Controlling the UK's Private Intelligence Industry

New briefing details the growth of the private intelligence industry in the UK and what needs to be done about it.

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Your NEW guide to surveillance human rights standards is here

A glimpse into what you can find in the new version of PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance. From surveillance of public spaces to spyware and encryption, it’s got everything!

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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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5th December 2022

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

10th October 2022

EU Ombudsman opens inquiries into FRONTEX and EEAS on their support to develop surveillance capabilities in non-EU countries

15th October 2021

Human Rights Groups Submit Complaint to European Ombudsman Calling for Investigation into EU Surveillance Aid

25th May 2021

Human rights groups win European Court of Human Rights claim on UK mass surveillance regime

19th June 2020

IMSI catchers: facilitating indiscriminate surveillance of protesters

9th June 2020

Une loi nigérienne donne de vastes pouvoirs pour intercepter les communications

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

China forces out Australian journalist

The Australian journalist Chris Buckley, who reports for the New York Times, was forced to leave China on April 10 after 24 years of reporting on the country, bringing the number of journalists forced out of the country in the last year to 19. After travelling to Wuhan to report on the unfolding
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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.

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