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Advertisers on Facebook: who the heck are you and how did you get my data?
Investigating brands using Facebook for advertising, exposing how difficult it is to understand how our data's used and demanding Facebook make it easier to exercise our rights
Get out of our face, Clearview!
Our legal action against a company that collects photos of you and your loved ones online.
The Google/Fitbit merger - NOT ON OUR WATCH!
Google wants to know everything about you. It already holds a massive trove of data about you, but it now also wants to get its hands on your health data too. We don’t think any company should be allowed to accumulate this much intimate information about us. This is why we’re trying to stop its merger with Fitbit and saying ’NOT ON OUR WATCH’!
IoT in Court
Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored.
Investigating Apps interactions with Facebook on Android
We look at how apps are exposing peoples' activities and behaviours to Facebook.
State Sponsors of Surveillance: The Governments Helping Others Spy
Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.
Holding Facebook to account for Cambridge Analytica
In March 2018 the Guardian newspaper revealed that Cambridge Analytica was able to harvest data from Facebook -- and PI responded.
Secret surveillance networks
Governments share our data amongst each other.
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.
Stop GPS tagging migrants
Fighting the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK's 'hostile environment'