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Whether 'big tech’ companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, or surveillance tech firms and data brokers that you have never heard of, PI examines how their practices impacts on your privacy and autonomy. Whether they are exploring sharing your data without your consent, or developing ever more intrusive surveillance technologies, we campaign for strong regulation and better protections for the public.

PI is campaigning for 1) platforms to give all users heightened ad transparency and 2) for transparency into targeting and funding of ads to be meaningful.

Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance capabilities without adequate safeguards.

Our investigation into mental health websites, with dismaying findings.

The use of data and new technologies are driving a revolution in immigration enforcement, and affected people are going to be at greater risk.

Trade, and the people who negotiate trade agreements, fundamentally misunderstand data, privacy and data protection.

We work with others to ensure protection of and stop the exploitation of patient data because accessing reproductive healthcare should not require giving up your human rights, including privacy.
 

People all over the world share with menstruation apps their deeply intimate data - the date of their last periods, dates and details pertaining to their sex lives, their moods, their health. This data is being ruthlessly exploited and shared with third parties to target and profile people. 

Rising concerns around austerity, transparency, efficiency and financial management have fed into a narrative of technology as a magic cure-all to socio-economic and political issues.

We want a world which is safer for everyone, and at the heart of this is technologies which are secure by default.