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Today, the British Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a partnership between the NHS and Amazon to use the NHS’s website content as the source for the answer given to medical question, such as “Alexa, how do I treat a migraine?” While we welcome Amazon’s use of a trusted source of information

Today, Privacy International, along with nine other NGOs including Liberty and Amnesty International , attended a hearing before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to revisit the Court's first ruling on our case challenging UK mass surveillance and intelligence sharing

By Ailidh Callander, Legal Officer This piece first appeared in the 500th edition of the Scottish Legal Action Group Journal (2019 SCOLAG (500, June) 124 Political scandal, stronger regulation on privacy but what about social protection? In an increasingly digitalised and data driven world, an era

Citing inaccuracy, major manufacturer declines to combine facial recognition and body worn cameras - but accurate or not, real-time facial recognition should never be coupled with police body-worn cameras Axon Enterprise Inc. —a major manufacturer of police body-worn cameras and digital evidence

It's a big question, have you purchased a card for your local surveillance camera on Surveillance Camera Day? Yes, Surveillance Camera Day is a real thing and happens on 20 June. Perhaps your local community could create a bingo card to see who knows where all the local cameras are. Are there any on

One of the UK’s largest telecommunications operators, BT, has said to Privacy International that a report claiming it “co-produces malware” with a surveillance company for the GCHQ is inaccurate – but hasn’t said why or given any more details. The accusation was made by C5IS – a shadowy online

Privacy International has joined a global coalition of privacy campaigners, tech companies, and technology experts to respond to proposals by British intelligence chiefs aimed at allowing them access to encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Signal. If implemented, the proposals would allow

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency at the centre of carrying out President Trump’s “zero tolerance” approach to immigration enforcement and family separation, has for years been contracting a US surveillance company to intercept peoples’ communications across the United States