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Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?

CIS, PI's partner in India, posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.”

Report

Mental health websites don't have to sell your data. Most still do.

In a follow up to PI's initial research on sharing of personal data by mental health websites, a second analysis illustrates how change is possible and yet most webpages analysed still share your data with third-parties for marketing purposes.

News & Analysis

Why the Huduma Namba ruling matters for the future of digital ID, and not just in Kenya

PI explains why the judgement of the Kenyan High Court's judgement on the Huduma Namba matters globally.

Advocacy

Analysis of Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019

This is a legal analysis of Kenya’s Data Protection Act which was adopted in November 2019.

News & Analysis

Advocate General’s Opinion: national security mass retention regimes are incompatible with EU Law

Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, issued his opinions on how he believes the Court should rule on vital questions relating to European national security mass retention regimes. All three regimes in question were in his opinion incompatible.

Advocacy

#PrivacyWins: EU Border Guards Cancel Plans to Spy on Social Media (for now)

The EU's border control agency mysteriously cancelled a surveillance system, after we asked a few questions.

Long Read

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Filling the gaps on the understanding of cybersecurity and human rights across the world

The pressing need to fix our cybersecurity (mis)understandings Despite all the efforts made so far by different, cybersecurity remains a disputed concept. Some states are still approving cybersecurity laws as an excuse to increase their surveillance powers. Despite cybersecurity and cybercrime being

Long Read

The Identity Gatekeepers and the Future of Digital Identity

Photo by Nadine Shaabana on Unsplash Digital identity providers Around the world, we are seeing the growth of digital IDs, and companies looking to offer ways for people to prove their identity online and off. The UK is no exception; indeed, the trade body for the UK tech industry is calling for the

News & Analysis

Bulk surveillance is unlawful, says the High Court of South Africa

Today, the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria in a historic decision declared that bulk interception by the South African National Communications Centre is unlawful and invalid. The judgment is a powerful rejection of years of secret and unchecked surveillance by South African authorities

Long Read

No Body's Business But Mine: How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data

PI undertook dynamic analysis of various menstrution apps using its own data interception environment to look at the data they share with Facebook.

News & Analysis

After Watson: Mandatory data retention by telecommunications operators

A recap of what happened in the UK, after CJEU's Tele2/Watson judgment

Long Read

Two states admit bulk interception practices: why does it matter?

Six years after NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents providing details about how states' mass surveillance programmes function, two states – the UK and South Africa – publicly admit using bulk interception capabilities . Both governments have been conducting bulk interception of internet

Long Read

FAQ: Privacy International UK Supreme Court Judgment

Details of case: R (on the application of Privacy International) (Appellant) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others (Respondents) [2019] UKSC 22 15 May 2019 The judgment What two questions was the Supreme Court asked to answer? Whether section 67(8) of RIPA 2000 “ousts” the supervisory

Press release

Privacy International Wins Historic Victory at UK Supreme Court

Today, after a five year battle with the UK government, Privacy International has won at the UK Supreme Court. The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s (IPT) decisions are subject to judicial review in the High Court. The Supreme Court's judgment is a major endorsement

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BREAKING: following PI investigation into exploitation of data, Quantcast is under investigation by Irish Data Protection Commission

The Irish Data Protection Commission has today launched an inquiry into the data practices of ad-tech company Quantcast, a major player in the online tracking industry. PI's 2018 investigation and subsequent submission to the Irish DPC showed how the company is systematically collecting and

News & Analysis

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

We retested all the apps from our December 2019 report that showed leakages to Facebook.