Women’s Aid and Privacy International launch digital information cards to help women stay safe on Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day to celebrate relationships, but many relationships that begin romantically can quickly become controlling, with partners reading emails, checking texts and locations of social media posts. This can be just the beginning.

Today, Friday 14th February, Privacy International and Women’s Aid are launching a series of digital social media cards giving women practical information on how to help stay safe digitally from control and abuse.

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Privacy International and Women’s Aid are launching a series of digital social media cards giving women practical information on how to help stay safe digitally from control and abuse.

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24th February 2020

Did you know that your location could be made public when you post on apps?

How do they seem to know everything? Have they guessed my password?

How can I make my social media safe and secure?

How can I stop someone putting spyware on my phone?

Our campaign

When Social Media makes you a target

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LGBTIQ+

Gender

Women

Social Media Surveillance

Privacy

Smartphones

Our fight

Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity

Protect People and Communities Online

What Pi is calling for

Technologies, laws, and policies must contain modern safeguards to protect people from exploitation.

PI seeks protections for everyone

People and communities must be able to protect their data and rights, resist and object to exploitation by governments and industry.

PI educates and mobilises people

People must know what data is generated and processed

People must be able to know what data is being generated by devices, the networks and platforms we use, and the infrastructure within which devices become embedded. People should be able to know and ultimately determine the manner of processing.

Digital Health: what does it mean for your rights and freedoms

Governments have been digitising their health systems and, more broadly, healthcare. We dive into the right to health situated in the digital context, exploring the digital health initiatives that put patients' data and freedoms at risk.

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Buddi Limited - Immigration Enforcement's favourite tracking buddy

The privatisation of migration control and policing takes different shapes and forms.
The latest iteration comes in disguise – specifically, in four pastel colours: if you were to look at this company's main website, in fact, you'd only find wristbands and tools to monitor the well-being of elderly people who live alone. But as stated in their annual report, the majority of British company Buddi's revenue originates from the criminal justice market.

News & Analysis

The Clearview/Ukraine partnership - How surveillance companies exploit war

Clearview announced it will offer its surveillance tech to Ukraine. It seems no human tragedy is off-limits to surveillance companies looking to sanitise their image.

Explainer

Electronic monitoring using GPS tags: a tech primer

Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice for many years throughout the world. As traditional radio-frequency tags are replaced by GPS ankle tags, we examine how these different technologies work and the seismic shift that will result from 24/7 location monitoring and data analytics, enabled by GPS tags.