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Part 6 - Obligations of Data Controllers and Processors

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” presents the responsibilities, obligations, and liability of those who process personal data, to ensure data controllers and processors are held accountable under the law.

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Part 5 - Grounds for Processing of Personal Data

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” outlines and explains the legal basis permitted for the processing of personal data, which should be limited and clearly articulated in law.

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Part 4 - Rights of Data Subjects

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” presents eight key rights for individuals (also known as ‘data subjects’) that should be followed and enforced by those who process personal data, including the right to access, the right to object, and the right to an effective remedy.

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Part 2 - General Provisions, Definitions and Scope

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” presents what should be provided for in the general provisions of a data protection law including the object and purpose of the law and definitions.

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Part 3 - Data Protection Principles

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” presents and explains seven key data protection principles, derived from regional and international frameworks, covering elements such as minimisation, storage limitation, and accountability.

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Part 1 - Data Protection Explained

This part of “The Keys to Data Protection” explains what data protection is, why it is needed, and how to works. It also outlines why it is essential for the exercise of the right to privacy. This part also provides a brief outline of data protection in practice.

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The Sustainable Development Goals, Identity, and Privacy: Does their implementation risk human rights?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the United Nations-led initiative to define the development agenda. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals, the SDG’s 17 goals – and the 169 targets – serve as an opportunity to tackle many of the most pressing issues in the world today. The

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An Open Source Guide to Researching Surveillance Transfers

Privacy International’s new report shows how countries with powerful security agencies are training, equipping, and directly financing foreign surveillance agencies. Driven by advances in technology, increased surveillance is both powered by and empowering rising authoritarianism globally, as well

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From smart cities to safe cities: normalising the police state?

The idea of a “smart city” is primarily a marketing concept, used to sell data-intensive technologies under the pretext of improving the functioning of cities. This could include injecting ‘smart’ tech into delivering services, public safety, environmental monitoring, traffic control, among other

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Updated - Amid Crackdown in Bangladesh, Government Forces Continue Spytech Shopping Spree

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source UPDATE: 30 July 2019 Privacy International has identified the following: Two RAB officers received approval to travel to the USA in April 2019 for training on “Location Based Social Network Monitoring System Software for RAB Intelligence Wing” Three RAB officers

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Who supplies the data, analysis, and tech infrastructure to US immigration authorities?

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In the midst of continued widespread public outrage at the US government’s brutal ‘zero-tolerance’ policy around immigration – multiple data and analytics companies have quietly avoided answering questions about their role in feeding the US Immigration and

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A Freedom of Information Case Study: Challenging 'Neither Confirm Nor Deny'

A case study into our long-running battle for information on the UK police force's use of surveillance tech

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Submission to the US Federal Trade Commission on the intersection between privacy, big data, and competition

Privacy International welcomes the opportunity to file these comments in advance of the Federal Trade Commission’s public hearings on competition and consumer protection in the 21st century.

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Teach 'em to Phish: State Sponsors of Surveillance

Countries with powerful security agencies are spending literally billions to equip, finance and train security and surveillance agencies around the world — including authoritarian regimes. This is resulting in entrenched authoritarianism, further facilitation of abuse against people, and diversion

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Teach ‘em to Phish: State Sponsors of Surveillance

Privacy International (PI) has today released a new report, 'Teach 'em to Phish: State Sponsors of Surveillance', showing how countries with powerful security agencies are training, equipping, and directly financing foreign surveillance agencies. Spurred by advances in technology, increased

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Privacy at public demonstrations

How would you feel if you were fingerprinted by the police before you were allowed to take part in a peaceful public demonstration? As tens of thousands of people attend massive public demonstrations across the UK today against US President Donald Trump in a ‘Carnival of Resistance’, it’s a question