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No Body's Business but Mine: Vol 1 - 2019 Research

In 2019 PI undertook dynamic analysis of various menstrution apps using its own data interception environment to look at the data they share with Facebook.

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Digital health, big tech and your privacy

Private companies, including Big Tech, are responsible for a large number of digital health tools. While there may be benefits to health, there are also potential threats to your privacy from these initiatives.

In this piece, we outline some of these tools and give some examples of Big Tech involvement in digital health and consider what sort of future a Big Tech dominated vision of digital health might hold for your rights, your autonomy and our society

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Digital Health: what does it mean for your rights and freedoms

Governments have been digitising their health systems and, more broadly, healthcare. We dive into the right to health situated in the digital context, exploring the digital health initiatives that put patients' data and freedoms at risk.

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The hidden cost of digital health services

New research from our partners at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) reveals Indian health websites and apps are sharing intimate health-related data with third parties such as Facebook and Google. 

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International Safe Abortion Day 2023

Introduction The 28th of September marks International Safe Abortion Day. It remains a day necessary to mobilise and raise awareness of the continued struggles women and girls face when accessing reproductive healthcare, including

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Privacy and Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Post-Roe world

Concerning news from the US about the restriction of the right to abortion have made many reconsider their engagement with platforms processing health data. Here, we provide an overview of our research findings on the intersection of privacy and sexual and reproductive health.

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22nd July 2022

Privacy and the Body: Privacy International’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attack on reproductive rights

20th July 2021

Our analysis of the WHO report on Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health

27th April 2021

Amazon Alexa/NHS contract: ICO allows partial disclosure

17th December 2020

Press Release: European Commission green lights Google and Fitbit merger in a game-changing and disappointing decision for the rights of millions of Europeans

6th August 2020

Google/Fitbit merger: more scrutiny from the EU Commission

24th June 2020

Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger

17th June 2020

Press release: Privacy International calls for the Google/Fitbit merger to be blocked

22nd May 2020

In big tech we trust: is Apple's and Google's COVID-19 reputation laundering enough to make us forget about their past?

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US government bypasses CDC data tracking in favour of TeleTracking Technologies

Questions have been raised about an irregular process by which the Trump administration awarded a $10.2 million dollar six-month contract to Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies. TeleTracking has traditionally sold software to help hospitals track patient status; under the new contract it is
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Joint submission in advance of the consideration of Kenya at the 77th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Privacy International (PI), STOPAIDS, The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP), Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), Haki na Sheria Initiative (HSI) and ICJ-Kenya (Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists) submitted a joint stakeholder report ahead of the 77th Session of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in relation to the consideration of Kenya’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR.)

The submission covers issues related to our organisation’s work on health and economic and social justice.

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