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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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Defenders Coalition: Impact of Communication Surveillance on HRDs in Kenya

The Defenders Coalition has undertaken a survey of HRDs across Kenya to understand their level of exposure and their perception of communication surveillance.

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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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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

Examples of Abuse

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

Israel requires Palestinian residents to open phone data to military

While the agency that manages residence permits, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, is closed, Israel has instructed Palestinians seeking to verify whether their permits to remain in Israel are still valid to download the app Al Munasiq, which grants the military access to
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El Derecho a la Privacidad en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Este informe es presentado por la Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) y Privacy International (PI). La Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) es una organización no gubernamental, sin fnes de lucro, ubicada en México, dedicada a la defensa de los derechos humanos en el entorno digital. Privacy International (PI) es una organización no gubernamental sin fnes de lucro ubicada en Londres enfocada en la defensa, promoción y protección del derecho a la privacidad alrededor del mundo.

PI y R3D desean presentar preocupaciones en torno a la situación de violación al derecho a la privacidad en México, para su consideración en el próximo examen a México dentro de la sesión 31 del Grupo de Trabajo del Examen Periódico Universal (EPU).

 

This report is available in English.

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