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How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Uber

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Big Data

New technologies and electoral processes: online campaigning in social media platforms

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The incorporation of new technologies to electoral processes is a phenomenon with a global and exponential growth. Despite its benefits, online campaigning is not without challenges, and can pose threats to transparency and equity in electoral competition. Given the role of elections as

Campaigns

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

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Reports and Analysis

Long Read

We asked five menstruation apps for our data and here is what we found...

We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us.

Long Read

The impact of our public campaign against the proposed Google/Fitbit merger

During summer 2020, over 2,500 people signed PI's public petition opposing the proposed Google/Fitbit merger. We sent the petition to the European Commission, who are yet to decide if the merger can proceed. The Commission responded by thanking petitioners for their concerns and cooperation, just as they opened a detailed phase 2 investigation into the merger.

Key Resources

A guide for migrants and asylum rights organisations about privacy settings

This guide is for anyone concerned about their social media accounts being monitored by public authorities, but it’s especially targeted at people from minority and migrant communities who may be disproportionately affected by various forms of surveillance.

News

16th November 2020

Can we get our internet back now please?

27th October 2020

UK data regulator takes enforcement action to rein in data brokers' use of people's personal data

28th September 2020

International Safe Abortion Day: no safety without privacy

26th August 2020

UN experts report highlights role of private military and security companies in immigration management

18th August 2020

Our response to Google: Privacy isn't a Luxury

6th August 2020

Google/Fitbit merger: more scrutiny from the EU Commission

Examples of Abuse

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

"The Unsuspected Power of Big Data"

Article extract- translated from the original French. "A political big data company with close ties to the federal liberals and which worked on Emmanuel Macron's campaign in France is setting up its head office in Old Montreal to continue its growth and take advantage of Montreal's digital vitality

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Our Advocacy

PI’s and Hiperderecho’s joint submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on the examination of Peru

Our submission highlights the intersection between reproductive rights, privacy, and tech.

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