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GPS tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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The Global Surveillance Industry

Video: BBC Newsnight Coverage Of PI Investigation Into Uganda's Grand Ambitions Of Secret Surveillance

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Makalondi, at the Niger-Burkina Faso border

The European Chase for Saharan Smugglers

A look at attempts to dismantle smuggling networks in the Sahara, powered by Europe's gifts of surveillance.

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...it protects our right to rest

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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…it protects our ability to move freely

You have the right to leave or move within your own country and you should be able to return.

News

2nd April 2020

The EU needs to provide assistance to migrants affected by Covid-19. But their latest proposal does nothing of the kind.

18th September 2019

Europe’s Shady Funds to Border Forces in the Sahel

29th July 2019

Here’s the Surveillance the US Exports to Central America as Aid - And it’s Surviving Trump’s Cuts

29th July 2019

Esta es la vigilancia que Estados Unidos está exportando a Centroamérica como ayuda. Y está sobreviviendo a los recortes de Trump

6th February 2019

Palantir and the UN’s World Food Programme are partnering for a reported $45 million

7th February 2018

Exploiting Privacy: Surveillance Companies Pushing Zero-Day Exploits

Examples of Abuse

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

Amazon buys camera systems from US government-banned Zhejiang Dahua Technology

Amazon has spent $10 million to buy 1,500 cameras to take the temperature of workers from the Chinese firm Zhejiang Dahua Technology Company even though the US previously blacklisted Dahua because it was alleged to have helped China detain and monitor the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. The

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Joint Submission on the Right to Privacy in Italy, Human Rights Committee, 119th Session

Privacy International and the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties' Joint Submission in Consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Italy Human Rights Committee 119th Session (6-29 March 2017). The submission brings to the attention of the Committee the ongoing concern with Italian security

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