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Content Creators Working for the Algorithm

Creators who produce content for big online platforms, from video game livestreamers on Twitch to adult content producers on platforms like OnlyFans, often find themselves forced to share a lot of data, putting their privacy and security at risk while being given limited information as to how this data is being used.

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2022 Key highlights of our results

Here are a handful of our biggest achievements in 2022.

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New Year, New Noom? What our re-testing of the weight-loss platform taught us

Following its 2021 research on diet ads sharing personal data with third parties, PI ran a follow-up analysis of Noom's online test to assess changes and reflect on publishers' data sharing practices.

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Restraining protest surveillance: When should surveillance of protesters become unlawful?

PI has published a report advocating for 12 human rights-based legal standards to limit surveillance by police and law enforcement at protests. Our report explains how these standards are rooted in the rights to privacy and freedom of assembly and illustrates why these specific legal limits are necessary at every stage of a protest.

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Creating content in the gig economy: a risky business

The rise of the gig-economy, a way of working relying on short term contracts and temporary jobs rather than on an employed workforce, has enabled the growth of a number of companies over the last few years. But without the rights that comes with full employment, gig economy workers today don't have access to essential protections.

Advocacy

Statement before the European Parliament hearing on "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations"

On 15 December 2022, PI gave evidence for a third time before the EP Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware [PEGA Committee].

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Welfare policy in the UK today: the government's flawed approach to fraud

After a consultation held in 2021 to which Privacy International responded, the government has now decided not to expand the powers of its "National Fraud Initiative". However, recent changes in the UK welfare landscape point to troubling plans for the future.

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Stop GPS tagging migrants

Fighting the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK's 'hostile environment'

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

Content Creators Working for the Algorithm

We looked into the software support practices for 5 of the most popular smart devices (and the results may disappoint you)

For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.

Featured Content

2022 Key highlights of our results

New Year, New Noom? What our re-testing of the weight-loss platform taught us

Restraining protest surveillance: When should surveillance of protesters become unlawful?

Creating content in the gig economy: a risky business

Statement before the European Parliament hearing on "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations"

Welfare policy in the UK today: the government's flawed approach to fraud

Featured Campaigns

Stop GPS tagging migrants