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Protecting persons with disabilities in a digitised world

Support systems are undergoing significant digitisation and automation under the banner of efficiency. Privacy International calls for the impacts of these innovations on the rights of people with disabilities to be comprehensively assessed and addressed.

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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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Free to Protest (UK edition)

‘Free to Protest: The protestor’s guide to police surveillance and how to avoid it’ (UK edition) is a collection of bite-sized guides about high-tech police surveillance capabilities at protests, including tips and strategies about how you can protect yourself from being identified, tracked and

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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

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The (un)avoidable rise of Edtech in educational spaces

This piece highlights concerns over the increasing use of data-intensive technologies in educational spaces (EdTech) and examines - among other things - how their unchecked implementation can jeopardize students' rights and education through potential privacy violations, discrimination, and the lack of student input in the adoption of these technologies.

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The rise of the Surveillance Databases

Surveillance databases are on the rise all around us and with them comes a wider array of issues. Here we begin to unpack these concerns and discuss some of the prominent global drivers of this trend.

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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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Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets

Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data labeling, and how this exploitative labour ecosystem functions, aided by algorithms and larger systemic governance issues that exploit microworkers in the gig economy.

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What is Encryption? Codes, Keys, and Hashes

What do you know about cryptography? Have you ever wanted to get a better understanding of some of the maths behind encryption? This week we speak to Ed, a Senior Technologist at PI, about some of the history and basics of encryption.

Hong Kong schools adopt facial recognition and security cameras

23 May 2023

According to police plans to enhance “school safety”, security cameras and facial recognition will monitor children in Hong Kong in class and around educational facilities. The move is part of a trend also found in China, India, and the US toward mining children’s data, even though few benefits have

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