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

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

8th January 2021

Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’

7th December 2020

Privacy International takes its five-year battle against UK government’s hacking powers to the High Court

17th August 2020

Dear Home Secretary: Channel crossings are already inviable for asylum-seekers and human rights

Examples of Abuse

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UK appoints counter-terrorism official to lead biosecurity centre

Tom Hurd, a senior Home Office counter-terrorism official who was at Eton and Oxford with prime minister Boris Johnson, will lead the UK’s newly-established biosecurity centre; Hurd remains a candidate to take over as the next director general of MI6 later in 2020. Hurd, who has worked as a diplomat

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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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