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Challenging the Drivers of Surveillance
Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance capabilities without adequate safeguards.
Your mental health for sale
Our investigation into mental health websites, with dismaying findings.
Protecting migrants at borders and beyond
The use of data and new technologies are driving a revolution in immigration enforcement, and affected people are going to be at greater risk.
Our data is not for trade
Trade, and the people who negotiate trade agreements, fundamentally misunderstand data, privacy and data protection.
Protecting Privacy In The Digitalisation Of Reproductive Healthcare
We work with others to ensure protection of and stop the exploitation of patient data because accessing reproductive healthcare should not require giving up your human rights, including privacy.
No Body’s Business But Mine
People all over the world share with menstruation apps their deeply intimate data - the date of their last periods, dates and details pertaining to their sex lives, their moods, their health. This data is being ruthlessly exploited and shared with third parties to target and profile people.
When Big Brother Pays Your Benefits
Rising concerns around austerity, transparency, efficiency and financial management have fed into a narrative of technology as a magic cure-all to socio-economic and political issues.
Security should protect people, not exploit them
We want a world which is safer for everyone, and at the heart of this is technologies which are secure by default.
When Social Media makes you a target
Governments are profiling people using their social media data -- effectively weaponising the devices and the platforms we use everyday.
Scrutinising the global counter-terrorism agenda
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.