Guides

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The police can access your mobile phone’s ‘unique identifiers’. Learn how to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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The police can access your digital communications. Learn how to limit the risk.

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If the police seize your phone during a protest, they can gain access to your location data. Here's how to better control access to your data (UK edition).

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The police may use facial recognition technology, IMSI catchers, geo-location technology and other tools to identify protesters and add them to databases or watchlists, feeding into their 'predictive policing' tools. Here's what you need to know (UK edition).

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This guide explains how policing databases can be used at a protest and negatively affect individuals' lives (UK edition)

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A guide to how police drone technology may be used at protests, and how you can try to maintain anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how body worn video cameras can be used at a protest (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how gait recognition technology can be used at a protest and how you can try to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how facial recognition technology can be used at a protest and how can you try to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how hacking can be used at protests and how you can minimise risks to your data (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how IMSI catchers can be used at a protest and how you can minimise risks to your data (UK edition).

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This guide explains how the police can access data to your Cloud-based services and the apps that store data in there, such as Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp. (UK edition)

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This week we bring you an episode from last year in which we talked to PI's Tech Co-ordination Groups to bring you tips and tricks about how to start cleaning up and securing your phone or computer.

Please note - WhatsApp does now offer disappearing messages!

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Privacy International has released a guide to how UK authorities track and monitor immigrants and the companies which profit.
 

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Privacy International partnered with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School to guide the reader through a simple presentation of the legal arguments explored by national courts around the world who have been tasked with national courts that discuss the negative implications of
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Many countries in the world have existing ID cards - of varying types and prevalence - there has been a new wave in recent years of state “digital identity” initiatives. The systems that states put in place to identify citizens and non-citizens bring with them a great deal of risks. This is