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There's no need for interception if the security services slide into your DMs and group chats

Global Humanitarian and Aid programmes are in crisis. In our experience, this opens the door for MORE ‘aid’ programmes that actually expand surveillance and undermine human rights across the world.

Apple disable their 'advanced data protection' service for UK customers following a secret UK Government order demanding access to global user data. 

Today Privacy International, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Amnesty International and 9 more unions and NGOs are calling on Deliveroo, Uber, and Just Eat Takeaway to protect their workers.

The UK government publishes procurement for live facial recognition technology to be used by police forces across the UK. 

A tecnologia de reconhecimento facial prejudica a educação das crianças e deve ser banida das instituições educacionais, diz especialista da ONU.

Facial recognition technology harms children’s education, and should be banned from educational institutions, UN Expert says.

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or enforcement action. After a year of submitting Freedom of Information Act requests, we finally received some information on this secretive AI tool used to decide the fate of migrants. 

A year and a half after OpenAI first released ChatGPT, generative AI still makes the headlines and gathers attention and capital. But what is the future of this technology in an online economy dominated by surveillance capitalism? And how can we expect it to impact our online lives and privacy?