Privacy International

The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, proposes the legitimisation of powers that no other democratic nation has had the audacity to attempt. They are asking Parliament to give them new powers to hack into our computers and look at our internet browsing histories.

The UN Human Rights Committee has criticised the British legal regime governing the interception of communications, observing that it allows for mass surveillance and lacks sufficient safeguards.

A report reveals that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency sought to tap all IP-bound communications traffic entering or travelling through the country.

A 400 gigabyte trove of internal documents belonging to surveillance company Hacking Team has been released online. Hacking Team sells intrusive hacking tools that have allegedly been used by some of the most repressive regimes in the world.

The recent release of independent reviewer David Anderson QC’s report, commissioned for the government, is a resounding call for wholesale reform of Britain’s surveillance legislation.

Privacy International has filed a legal complaint demanding an end to the bulk collection of phone records and harvesting of other databases, from millions of people who have no ties to terrorism, nor are suspected of any crime.

Once seen as more liberal than its Middle Eastern neighbours, Lebanon has recently been the subject of troubling reports on attacks and threats against the right to privacy.

Various groups expressed misgivings about the process by which a cybercrime bill was drafted and revised. The democratic process in Pakistan is undermined and the bill contains several provisions that are potentially damaging to privacy and freedom of expression.