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As digital communications grow, governments continue to seek new ways of getting access to content and metadata.

Privacy International, together with Liberty, challenges MI5's data-handling arrangements before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance capabilities without adequate safeguards.

Increasingly counter-terrorism strategies and policies are decided at the international level, most notably by the UN Security Council, and are used to erode human rights, with no accountability.

PI intervened in the case challenging the constitutionality of South African surveillance law.

Surveillance technologies are radically transforming the ability of authorities to monitor civic spaces that see the space around them increasingly shrinking

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

Governments share our data amongst each other.

Our case challenging the UK Government's refusal to disclose records on intelligence sharing agreements.

Seven applicants complaints testing the scope of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal's prerogative to conduct investigations. Their legal action was a result of PI’s campaign and support.