Privacy International

A new illegal spying scandal in Colombia involving the National Police has brought about the resignation of the Chief of the National Police, set off an investigation by the country’s Inspector General and brought the issue of illegal surveillance by Colombian authorities back into the national discussion.

A new investigation, based on exclusive documents, exposes the sale of European surveillance technologies to a secret unit of Egypt’s intelligence infrastructure.

A powerful new VICE News investigation has blown open the secretive world of risk management and the most influential database you’ve never heard of: World-Check.

Civil society groups express concern over the potential for overbroad anti-extremism practices to limit free expression

In 2015 the United Nations’ human rights mechanisms significantly increased their capacity to monitor and assess states’ compliance with their obligations around the right to privacy. However, a spate of new laws that expand digital surveillance powers and reduce safeguards below the standards of international human rights law have been adopted by certain countries.

International and domestic civil society organisation are calling for Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes bill to be scrapped and the process of creating a new bill that reflects international human rights standards and respects the Constitution to begin again.

A new Privacy International investigation reveals Microsoft’s complicity in a serious case of Government persecution in Thailand. It is a shocking example of how Western companies not only work with governments that fall considerably short of international human rights standards, but can actually facilitate abuses of human rights.

Members of the IFEX network and other concerned organisations demand justice for wrongful imprisonment of Mohammed Ismael Rasaool