United Kingdom

Reports and Analysis

Long Read

The UK Human Rights Act and the right to privacy

The UK goverment’s Independent Human Rights Act Review has shone the spotlight on the relationship between domestic jurisprudence and the European Court of Human Rights. We look at this relationship from a privacy perspective.

Report

Is your Local Authority Looking at your Facebook Likes?

When Local Authorities aren't your Friends

The UK Chief Surveillance Commissioners have repeatedly raised concerns about local authorities using the internet as a surveillance tool and suggested they conduct an internal audit of the use of social media sites.

Privacy International sent Freedom of Information requests to local authorities in the UK to dig deeper into what's going on.

Case Study

…it ensures we are all recognised as people

You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere like anyone else.

News

23rd July 2021

UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds the regime for bulk communications data to be incompatible with EU law

6th July 2021

The Policing Bill: Immigration Officers to get phone data extraction powers

29th June 2021

Policing Bill: An unsatisfactory debut on the statute books for mobile phone extraction

12th May 2021

How Priti Patel needs to fix the Aspen Card

27th April 2021

Amazon Alexa/NHS contract: ICO allows partial disclosure

10th February 2021

The Hostile Environment is incompatible with public health: PI joins the Vaccine For All campaign

Examples of Abuse

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UK police use unmanned drones to surveil political protests

UK police have used unmanned drones to monitor political protests for animal rights, by Extinction Rebellion, and against HS2, an extreme-right demonstration, and those held peacefully by Black Lives Matter, according to the campaign group Drone Watch. The Surrey, Cleveland, Staffordshire

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Our Advocacy

Privacy International’s response to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights

In March 2019, Privacy International responded to a call for evidence for an inquiry by the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights into "The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution". Our suggestions included that, the human rights framework should support: Increasing

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