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Why and how GDPR applies to people globally

Privacy and data protection are fundamental rights. When respected they help improve trust and reduce power imbalances. Individuals should have rights over their personal data, regardless of who holds or processes it, and effective ways to enforce those rights, through independent bodies. While not

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If Companies Can Protect User Data in Europe, They Can Protect It Everywhere

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. companies should adopt the same data protection rules that are poised to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, Public Citizen, the Center for Digital Democracy and Privacy International said today. In a sign-on letter , 28 groups a re calling on some of the world’s

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PI statement on adoption of the UK's Data Protection Act

Tomaso Falchetta, PI's Head of Advocacy and Policy team said: "The adoption of the Data Protection Act represents an important reform which strengthens the rights of individuals and increases obligations for the industry. The Act opens the way for the application of the EU General Data Protection

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Privacy International's landmark challenge against UK Government hacking will proceed to the Supreme Court

In a remarkable development in Privacy International's four year legal battle against the UK Government's powers to hack phones and computers on a massive scale, the UK Supreme Court has agreed to hear the London-based charity's case in December 2018. Privacy International's case stems from a

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#efail and PGP - What should I do?

We found the above image here. Background Email is hard to secure. For years we've been trying to build security on top of email, such as through technologies like Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and the open source implementation: GnuPG (GPG). What happened In the past 48 hours, there have been very

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Privacy International asks major UK political parties to commit to not using legal loophole to target voters in forthcoming elections

Today, as the Data Protection Bill reaches its final stages, Privacy International has written to the leaders of the main UK political parties asking for public commitment to not use the exemption provided in the Bill to target voters - both online and offline - in all local and national forthcoming

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The Right to Privacy in Colombia - UPR 30 Factsheet

In the lead-up to the 30th session of the Universal Periodic Review which took place on 10 May 2018, Fundación Karisma, a partner organisation in the Privacy International Network, joined a coalition of civil society groups in Colombia to raise more awareness about the country's human rights record

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Telegram from Russia: compliance, & complicity in the Russian government’s attack on privacy

Telegram from Russia: compliance and complicity in the Russian government’s attack on privacy

If you operate an internet company in Russia, you aren’t necessarily surprised to one day open the door to someone, grasping in one hand a bundle of wires and in the other a letter from a government agency demanding access to your servers, with a black box wedged under one arm. Internet companies in

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Why should companies like Facebook commit to applying GDPR globally?

Hasn't Facebook said it would give European data protection to all of their users? Yes, but only in very vague language. In an initial reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Facebook would apply the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) “in spirit” to their

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It’s time for the Prime Minister to fix shockingly lax intelligence sharing arrangements with other governments

Privacy International (PI) has today sent a detailed report and list of questions to the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, following her admission that failures in the UK system governing intelligence sharing with international partners helped facilitate the detention, retention and “appalling

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Police Scotland forced to give evidence to Scottish Parliament on intrusive mobile phone extraction technology following Privacy International's report

Following on from the publication of our ‘Digital Stop and Search’ report last month, into the use of intrusive technology that enables officers to download all of the data stored on our mobile phones, we are pleased that Scotland's Justice Sub-Committee on Policing have been scrutinising Police

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Leaflet about police tech being used in public places in the UK

The UK police use a range of sophisticated technologies that raise serious privacy concerns because of the way in which they gather huge amounts of personal information about often large numbers of people in public places. You can download the leaflet above (just right click and save) and read more

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Take part in our #spypolice campaign!

TO TAKE PART IN OUR CAMPAIGN, RIGHT CLICK ON THE PICTURES BELOW, SAVE THEM, AND SHARE THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA TAGGED #SPYPOLICE Have you ever been to a peaceful protest, demo or march? Did you assume that the police would only be identifying 'troublemakers'? How would you feel if just by turning up at

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Privacy International at the 62nd Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR)

Image was found here. As part of Privacy International’s mission, we aim to take the issues emerging from our research and that of our partners to new spaces of debate and to the attention of stakeholders at the national, regional and international level. In April 2018, Privacy International was

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UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

Press release: Privacy International issues complaint to UK Information Commissioner about police downloading data from phones of suspects, witnesses and even victims of crime without consent

We found this picture here. Privacy International has today a issued a formal complaint to the UK Information Commissioner about the police’s use of intrusive ‘mobile phone extraction’ technology, enabling them to download all of the content from a person’s phone — without a warrant, and whether

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AI tools threaten right to privacy and freedom of expression – report

Full report is available here ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International’s report provides an overview of the impact of AI technologies on freedom of expression and privacy. It calls for further study and monitoring of how AI tools impact human rights. Specifically, we call on states and companies to