Senegal

News

10th November 2020

Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds

10th November 2020

Comment une société de sécurité bien connectée crée-elle en catimini des bases de données biométriques à grande échelle en Afrique de l’ouest avec les fonds d’aide de l’Union européenne

13th December 2013

Biometrics: friend or foe of privacy?

18th October 2013

Francophone West African Civil Society Organisations Demand Better Privacy, Personal Data Protections

3rd July 2013

Privacy International submits stakeholder reports to Human Rights Council on the right to privacy in China, Senegal and Mexico

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Facebook takes down accounts tied to company disrupting elections

Facebook has taken down 65 accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four Instagram accounts, which were ran by Archimedes Group, an Israeli political consulting and lobbying firm that aimed at disrupting elections in various countries. Archimedes was mostly active in Sub-Saharan Africa but also

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Our Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in Senegal

This stakeholder is a submission by Privacy International (PI) and Jonction Senegal. PI is a human rights organisation that works to advance and promote the right to privacy and fight surveillance around the world. Jonction Senegal is a human rights organisation based in Dakar, which aims to promote sustainable and equitable development and human rights both in Africa in general and in Senegal in particular. Together PI and Jonction Senegal wish to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in Senegal before the Human Rights Council for consideration in Senegal’s upcoming review.