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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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Neighbourhood turning into Policing, Inc.

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Unmasking Policing, Inc.

Governments are secretly collaborating with private companies. Here is why PI is concerned about surveillance outsourcing, and why together we urgently must expose them.

Reports and Analysis

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The Corona Contracts: Public-Private Partnerships and the Need for Transparency

No Tech For Tyrants, a UK grassroots organisation, is explaining Palantir's involvement with the UK government, including their partnership with the NHS. They explore the concerns public-private partnerships between Palantir and governments raise , and what this means for our rights.

People milling around an overcast Belgrade

Case Study

“Thousands of Cameras” - a citizen response to mass biometric surveillance

SHARE, an organisation based in Belgrade, are investigating Huawei's dealings with the Serbian government. In this case study, they explain what obstacles they faced and how they used public action to overcome them.

Case Study

...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.

News

11th June 2020

Why Amazon's temporary ban of police use of facial recognition is not enough

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

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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Our Advocacy

PI's joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Privacy International (PI), Fundaciòn Datos Protegidos, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) and Statewatch submission highlights examples on how digital technologies deployed in the context of border enforcement and administration reproduce, reinforce, and compound racial discrimination.

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