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Impact Case Studies, Annual reports

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Our key achievements from 2025

Here is a selection of our biggest achievements in 2025.

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Producing real change: key highlights of our 2025 results by season

Our key achievements since the beginning of 2025.

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Producing real change: key highlights of our 2024 results

Since the beginning of 2024, we’ve achieved some wins.

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Protecting personal data during elections – the Council of Europe's new guidelines on the processing of personal data for the purposes of voter registration and authentication

PI's analysis of the Council of Europe's Guidelines on processing of personal data for voter registration and authentication, which complement a previous set of recommendations outlining the safeguards for the Processing of Personal Data by and for Political Campaigns.

News & Analysis

Automating the hostile environment: uncovering a secretive Home Office algorithm at the heart of immigration decision-making

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or enforcement action. After a year of submitting Freedom of Information Act requests, we finally received some information on this secretive AI tool used to decide the fate of migrants.

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Privacy International’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education

Privacy International’s submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education for their forthcoming report to the General Assembly in October 2024 on the theme of Artificial intelligence in education and its human rights-based use at the service of the advancement of the right to education.

News & Analysis

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Two court judgments, one regulatory decision - Bricks fall around UK's GPS tagging of migrants

In the span of three months, two UK courts and one regulatory authority handed down rulings on the UK's GPS tagging of migrants, dealing serious blows to the legality of the policy. We delve into these three rulings and their implications for people and the wider policy.

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A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court

This week we speak to Ioannis, a senior lawyer at PI, about his and his colleague's work on the landmark case protecting encryption at the European Court of Human Rights: Podchasov v. Russia.

News & Analysis

GPS tagging of migrants UNLAWFUL, UK authority finds after PI complaint

The UK's data protection authority (ICO) took action against the Home Office's GPS tagging of migrants.

Advocacy

UN Human Rights Committee urges United Kingdom to respect the right to privacy

On 3rd May, 2024, the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) issued its concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ahead of the HRC’s review of the UK, PI had made a submission highlighting key concerns in relation to the current UK communications’ surveillance regime and the proposal for its reform; the surveillance of migrants; and the surveillance of peaceful assemblies.

Advocacy

Stop GILAB

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Submissions to the UK and EU competition authorities on the Amazon/iRobot merger

On 2 May and 5 June 2023, PI made a submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission, respectively, in relation to the proposed merger between Amazon and iRobot, outlining the concerns the transaction raises for consumers and markets.

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Our position on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

The text of the draft Regulation should be improved with amendments to ensure that current company practices do not result in serious harms for consumers or negatively impact devices’ sustainability.

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Q&A: Our challenge with Liberty against MI5 and the Home Secretary (2023)

We won our case against the UK’s Security Service (MI5) and the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD)

Following on from our initial reaction, we answer some key questions about the judgement below.

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Press: Landmark ruling exposes years of rule breaking by MI5

In a landmark judgment, handed down today (Monday 30 January 2023), the Investigatory Powers Tribunal have found that there were “very serious failings” at the highest levels of MI5 to comply with privacy safeguards from as early as 2014, and that successive Home Secretaries did not to enquire into

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EU Watchdog Finds Commission Failed to Protect Human Rights From its Surveillance Aid to African Countries

The European Ombudsman has found that the European Commission failed to take necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights in the transfers of technology with potential surveillance capacity supported by its multi-billion Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.