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Grindr and US national security: why it is time we start caring for the privacy of all users

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is trying to force the Chinese owner of the gay dating app Grindr to sell the app because of national security concerns. This is the first time the committee has considered the national security implications of a foreign social media

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Civil society achieves change, but risks still remain in Kenya's new biometric ID system

Today, the Kenyan Government is starting their biometric registration exercise known as NIIMS, leading to the issuing of Huduma Namba ID numbers. Along with our colleagues and partners in the human rights community in Kenya, we are very worried about the ramifications of this system for people in

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Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?

This past weekend, in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg called for new regulations to address harmful content, electoral integrity, privacy and data portability. Nine years since he proclaimed that privacy is no longer a social norm, four years since Facebook noticed broadscale

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Your local police force could download everything from your phone without your consent

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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Planning and participating in a protest could get you under surveillance: three technologies you should know about

Planning and participating in peaceful protests against governments or non-state actors’ policies and practices requires the capacity of individuals to communicate confidentially without unlawful interference. Surveillance technologies are affecting the right to peaceful assembly in new and often unregulated ways: in this article we focus on three technologies and practices deployed by public authorities in monitoring assemblies that raise particular concerns: IMSI catchers, facial recognition, and Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT).

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How predictive policing technology can lead to discrimination and profiling

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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Tech giants do not face enough competition, new report says

A panel of competition experts has confirmed that tech giants, like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft, do not face enough competition. We welcome the recommendations contained in the report, and we urge significant caution when it comes to solutions that will provide other companies with access to customers' data troves.

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How your social media activity is monitored by the police

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

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Reclaiming privacy: a feminist manifesto

At Privacy International, we talk about: “the world being on fire.”We say it to talk about the recurring threats to our democracies, the elections of authoritarian leaders, the current political climate… Or the actual climate. More often than not, we use it to talk about the (lack of) security in

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Reclaiming the right to privacy: an opportunity to challenge gender inequality

Image source: Oxfam This piece was co-authored with Ruhiya Seward, Senior Program Officer at IDRC and originally appeared here. What if in trying to make development more equitable we’re creating risks that disproportionately impact people based on their gender? Development programming aims to be

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online gender based violence a privacy issue

#IWD2019 Online gender-based violence: a privacy matter?

For International Women’s Day 2019, Privacy International looks at some of the key themes around the intersection of gender rights and the right to privacy and we review the work we and our partners have done on those topics. When dealing with cases of non-consensual sharing of intimate images

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Podcast: Trans identity in Manila

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In this first episode of the Gender and Privacy Series, we go to Manila in the Philippines to meet two transgender right activists - Naomi Fontanos and AR Arcon. We discuss what the right to privacy means to them and their fight against the government's plan to

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Podcast: Sex and the Cyber

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In the third episode of the Gender and Privacy Series, we talk about sex and privacy with two female activists: Sarah Jamie Lewis, an expert on the security of internet-connected sex toys, and Joana Varon, founder of the female-led Brazilian NGO Coding Rights

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Grindr and US national security: why it is time we start caring for the privacy of all users

Civil society achieves change, but risks still remain in Kenya's new biometric ID system

Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?

Your local police force could download everything from your phone without your consent

Planning and participating in a protest could get you under surveillance: three technologies you should know about

How predictive policing technology can lead to discrimination and profiling

Tech giants do not face enough competition, new report says

How your social media activity is monitored by the police

Reclaiming privacy: a feminist manifesto

Reclaiming the right to privacy: an opportunity to challenge gender inequality

#IWD2019 Online gender-based violence: a privacy matter?

Podcast: Trans identity in Manila

Podcast: Sex and the Cyber

Guess what? Facebook still tracks you on Android apps (even if you don't have a Facebook account)

Every Police force in the UK will soon use body worn video cameras to record us in public

The police are increasingly using facial recognition cameras in public to spy on us