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PI submission on the GPS Tracking of Migrants in the UK

Privacy International has made a submission to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration inspection of the Home Office Satellite Tracking Service Programme. We highlighted some of our concerns about the intrusive nature of location data as well as systemic failures relating to the quality of tags and battery life of devices which have a significant impact on individuals, as battery depletion can result in criminal prosecution.

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A Guide to Litigating Identity Systems: Impact of identity systems on rights other than privacy

This section sets out arguments on rights other than privacy, namely liberty, dignity, and equality. It provides detail on the social and economic exclusion and discrimination that can result from the design or implementation of identity systems.

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Privacy is Security: an op-ed from Peru

Miguel Morachimo, Executive Director of Hiperderecho. Hiperderecho is a non-profit Peruvian organisation dedicated to facilitating public understanding and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital environments. The original version of this article was published in Spanish on Hiperderecho

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Our Data Future

By Valentina Pavel, PI Mozilla-Ford Fellow, 2018-2019 Our digital environment is changing, fast. Nobody knows exactly what it’ll look like in five to ten years’ time, but we know that how we produce and share our data will change where we end up. We have to decide how to protect, enhance, and

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Thomson Reuters Selling ICE Access to Data

Updated - Thomson Reuters Selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Access to Data

Update 28 June 2018 Last week Privacy International wrote to Thomson Reuters Corporation asking the company to commit to ensuring the vast amounts of data they provide to US immigration agencies isn’t used to identify families for indefinite detention or separation, or for other human rights abuses

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International Women's Day 2018 - A Day in the Life of Women, As Told by Their Data

To mark International Women’s Day 2018, Privacy International and some of our partner organisations - Datos Protegidos , Derechos Digitales , the National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders-Kenya , the Karisma Foundation , and the Foundation for Media Alternatives – are telling the stories of

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21st June 2018

Press release: Privacy International asks Thomson Reuters if it will stop facilitating the US government’s “zero tolerance” policy

13th March 2018

A day in the life of Catalina, a forty-year-old cis woman living in Bogota

12th March 2018

A day in the life of Camille, a 25-year-old cis woman living in Paris

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Naomi Fontanos, a trans woman living in Manila

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Carolina, a 34-year-old cis woman living in downtown Santiago

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Maritza, a 57-year-old cis woman living in Caracas

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Mercy, a 28-year-old cis woman living in Nairobi

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A day in the life of Jen, a 27-year-old trans woman living in London

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PI response to ICO consultation on data subject rights and generative AI

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PI responded to the ICO consultation on engineering individual rights into generative AI models such as LLMs. Our overall assessment is that the major generative AI models are unable to uphold individuals’ rights under the UK GDPR. New technologies designed in a way that cannot uphold people’s rights cannot be permitted just for the sake of innovation.