Modernise the Rule of Law and Strengthen Surveillance Safeguards

Around the world, Privacy International is fighting against the most intrusive surveillance laws and campaigning to make sure they protect people’s privacy.

What PI is doing

Through research, campaigning, and strategic litigation, and by working at the international level, such as at the United Nations and the European Union, PI is:

Taking on some of the most powerful and secretive agencies and countering precedent-setting laws.
Challenging laws and practices in strategically-chosen countries to ensure the maximum possible impact in our global fight for surveillance reform.
Promoting laws to make surveillance accountable, transparent, subject to oversight, and in line with human rights requirements.

Featured Content

Advocacy

UN Human Rights Committee: Privacy International's submission on the United Kingdom

Ahead of the Human Rights Committee's consideration of the eight periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by the United Kingdom, Privacy International's submission outlines our 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

PI's Response to the UK Government's Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill

The UK is once again seeking to expand its surveillance powers. Seven years after the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 became law, the UK Government is now trying to amend it in ways which would further undermine already insufficient bulk surveillance safeguards and introduce a notification regime which could be used to prevent companies from implementing important privacy and security measures. PI is joining other UK civil society organisations in objecting to this problematic Bill.

Advocacy

Stop GILAB

Privacy International has joined civil society efforts urging the South African Parliament not to approve the draft General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill 2023 (GILAB).

Advocacy

PI’s response on proposed draft RICA Bill

Privacy International's response to the South African Parliament's call for submissions on the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Amendment Bill (the RICA Bill).