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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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The Global Surveillance Industry

Podcast: EU Exporting Surveillance

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**Language advisory: Gus does several swearwords this episode including one f-word at 9:45

From surveillance drones to cameras to wiretapping and more - the EU are providing technologies that will be used to crush political and civil freedoms and undermine democracy without urgent reforms

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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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…it can protect us from torture

No one has the right to torture you.

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News

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

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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
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