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Content Type: Advocacy

Best Before date policy brief: Device sustainability through long-term software support

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Content Type: Long Read

How one TECNO phone is putting users' privacy and security at risk

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Content Type: Long Read

The hidden threat: Privacy and security risks in chips

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Content Type: Press release

PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International and Liberty complaint against Government’s ‘backdoor’ access to Apple data to be heard by Tribunal

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Content Type: Advocacy

Privacy International’s letter to the UK Home Office demanding transparency on Technical Capability Notices

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Content Type: Explainer

How the UK Government is making security harder for everyone

Samsung
Content Type: News & Analysis

The cost of privacy: 3 years support for high-end Samsung phones, but what about the rest?

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Content Type: Long Read

The UK government's controversial proposal to expand surveillance powers: What you need to know

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Content Type: Advocacy

PI response to UK Government consultation on Technical Capabilities Notices

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Content Type: Advocacy

Our position on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

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Content Type: Report

Securing Privacy: PI on End-to-End Encryption

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Content Type: Video

A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves

Content Type: Examples

Design flaw leaves Bluetooth devices vulnerable

Content Type: Examples

Critical Bluetooth Vulnerability in Android (CVE-2020-0022) – BlueFrag

Content Type: Examples

Key Negotiation of Bluetooth attack

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Content Type: Case Study

…it protects our property

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Content Type: Impact Case Study

Fighting data-exploitative business models

Public concern about warrantless police searches of smartphones
Content Type: Video

Digital stop and search - public concern about the police secretly downloading content from smartphones

Content Type: Examples

Austria proposes to seize asylum seekers' devices to check their identities and travel routes

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Content Type: Impact Case Study

Fighting Mass Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era

Video: Government Hacking 101
Content Type: Video

Video: Government Hacking 101

Content Type: Examples

Federal Trade Commission studies mobile security updates

Niger registration
Content Type: Long Read

Inside Niger's New Biometric Voting System

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Content Type: Long Read

A technical look at Phone Extraction

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Who, what, why? A guide to understanding the Facebook encryption debate if you have lost the plot

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Content Type: Long Read

Our challenge against UK's secret TCN powers

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Update: Our case against UK Government's secret surveillance orders to be heard in 2026