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Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored.

Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.

Phone with a closed zipper on the screen

The use of ‘mobile phone extraction’ tools enables police forces to download all of the content and data from people’s phones. This can apply to suspects, witnesses and even victims – without their knowledge.

In September 2016, Privacy International intervened in the case of Catt v the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights.

Privacy International filed an amicus curiae brief outlining the international implications of eroding safety features on mobile phones

Corporate employee handing over facial images to a police officer

We filed complaints with 5 European data protection authorities against Clearview AI, a facial recognition technology company building a gigantic database of 10 billion + faces.