Privacy International

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance aims to provide the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance. You can find UN resolutions, independent expert reports and international human rights bodies jurisprudence.

JOIN US

Join our global movement and fight for what really matters: our freedom to be human.

LEARN

Learn about what we work on and how technology and privacy interacts.

DONATE

Support PI to stop the adversaries to your privacy and freedom.

Featured Content

Advocacy

The UK Home Office finally responds to our questions about surveillance of Aspen Card users

A mere eight months after we wrote to the Home Office seeking clarification on their initial response to our correspondence regarding the Aspen Card, they have replied. This accompanied their response to our Freedom of Information Request.

News & Analysis

PI intervenes in judicial review to support asylum seekers against the UK Home Secretary’s seizure and extraction of their mobile phones

The Home Office has been seizing mobile phones from migrants arriving in the UK by small boats. Last week, PI intervened in a judicial review at the High Court challenging the lawfulness of this highly intrusive practice.

News & Analysis

Why Forensics Matter: Immigration officers and the quality of evidence in the UK

2022 will see a raft of high tech surveillance tools emerging in the UK government’s arsenal, which will further entrench a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants. We have written to the UK Forensic Science Regulator, urging him to conduct a review into use of digital forensic activities by immigration officers.

Long Read

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

The use of SMS in the delivery of reproductive and maternal healthcare

Short Message Services (SMS) are being used in MHealth initiatives which aim to deliver crucial information to expecting and new mothers. But there are concerns that there is limited transparency about numerous aspects of SMS health services, and how the data is being processed, by whom and in accordance to what safeguards.

Key Resources

A Kenyan man sits in front of his shop, subtitles read Even these technicals, these small universities, you can't go without an ID

When ID leaves you without identity: the case of double registration in Kenya

Tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens are stuck in legal limbo, unable to obtain national IDs because their fingerprints are captured in refugee databases. Their dilemma highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics.

Key Resources

Data Interception Environment

The Data Interception Environment (DIE) is a tool that you can use to analyse how your data is being used by app developers and third parties. It allows you to see how apps are sending your data from your device back to the company or to third parties.

View more content

Featured Campaigns

Managed by Bots

PI together with Worker Info Exchange (WIE) and the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) are

More Campaigns