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Satellite and aerial surveillance for migration: a tech primer

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Telco data and Covid-19: A primer

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Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Your NEW guide to surveillance human rights standards is here

A glimpse into what you can find in the new version of PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance. From surveillance of public spaces to spyware and encryption, it’s got everything!

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PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance providing the most hard-hitting results that reinforce and strengthen the core principles and standards of international law on surveillance.

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Understanding private surveillance providers and technologies

New policy paper by Privacy International and the Geneva Centre for Security Governance Sector (DCAF) explores surveillance services provided by private military and security companies.

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Briefing: Controlling the UK's Private Intelligence Industry

New briefing details the growth of the private intelligence industry in the UK and what needs to be done about it.

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At the border, asylum seekers are "guilty until proven innocent"

As migration continues to be high on the social and political agenda, Western countries are increasingly adopting an approach that criminalises people at the border. Asylum seekers are often targeted with intrusive surveillance technologies and afforded only limited rights (including in relation to data protection), often having the effect of being treated as “guilty until proven innocent”.

A recent report explains how the central German migration authority uses mobile phone extraction technology in the asylum application procedure, and why it is highly problematic.

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…it can protect our lives

Everyone has the right to life and to live freely and safety.

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News

27th July 2021

Taming Pegasus: A Way Forward on Surveillance Tech Proliferation

18th June 2020

Press release: Critical ICO report says the Police must stop taking data from victims' phones without better safeguards

24th February 2020

PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge after MI5 admits that vast troves of personal data was held in “ungoverned spaces”

15th January 2020

Advocate General’s Opinion: national security mass retention regimes are incompatible with EU Law

13th September 2019

Privacy International Joins Call to Stop EU Militarisation

29th May 2019

Ghosts in Your Machine: Spooks Want Secret Access to Encrypted Messages

19th December 2018

The EU’s Next Budget Threatens Privacy Around the World for Decades to Come

26th April 2018

Press release: Privacy International issues complaint to UK Information Commissioner about police downloading data from phones of suspects, witnesses and even victims of crime without consent

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Did Mexico Drop $5 Million On This 'Unlimited' Uber-Stealth Spy Tech?

Mexico is one of the biggest buyers of next-generation surveillance technology. And now data leaked to Forbes indicates it's taken an unprecedented step in becoming the first-known buyer of surveillance technology that silently spies on calls, text messages and locations of any mobile phone user
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PI's Response to the UK Government's Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill

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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.

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