United Kingdom

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How the UK Conservative Leadership Race is Latest Example of Political Data Exploitation

The UK public, regulators, and parliamentarians have all expressed concern about the wide use of third-party data by all political parties in the UK and its impact on privacy and democracy. In the week the remaining six candidates to be the UK’s next Prime Minister are reduced to two, Privacy

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FAQ: Privacy International UK Supreme Court Judgment

Details of case: R (on the application of Privacy International) (Appellant) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others (Respondents) [2019] UKSC 22 15 May 2019 The judgment What two questions was the Supreme Court asked to answer? Whether section 67(8) of RIPA 2000 “ousts” the supervisory

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Your local police force might already be able to hack you

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News

20th March 2020

Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections

15th January 2020

Advocate General’s Opinion: national security mass retention regimes are incompatible with EU Law

15th January 2020

Preliminary Statement: Advocate General's Opinion Advises that Mass Surveillance Regime is Unlawful

31st October 2019

PI and other rights groups demand political parties come clean on user of voters personal data in the UK general election

30th July 2019

Joint letter to new British Home Secretary on the future of the immigration and asylum system

10th July 2019

Deja Vu: UK's Science and Technology Committee suggests that everyone is made to have a unique ID number

Examples of Abuse

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UK councils and Greater Manchester police seek suspension of FOI request obligations

The Local Government Association has argued that councils should not have to comply with freedom of information requests during the coronavirus crisis. Greater Manchester police followed suit, saying that police in non-critical roles were being reallocated to operational policing and would not

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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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