Privacy International

More and more companies selling diet programmes are targeting internet users with online tests, with little to no clarity about what happens to the personal data you share.

In its submission to the UN report on AI and the right to privacy, Privacy International highlights concerns about facial recognition technology and argues for effective laws accompanied by safeguards to ensure AI applications comply with human rights.

Countering the Spread of Biometrics: three case studies from differing contexts illustrate the looming dangers of the untransparent and unregulated collection of biometric data in the name of combating terrorism.

Privacy International analyses the court’s judgement and takes a look at what comes next.

Civil society must be alert to privacy challenges arising from the regulation of disinformation.

Governments are increasingly making registration in national ID systems mandatory for accessing social benefits, healthcare services, and other forms of state support. However, by virtue of their design, these systems inevitably exclude certain population groups from obtaining an ID and hence from accessing essential resources.

A coalition of over 60 groups is calling on Facebook and Google to provide equal and better transparency regarding political advertising on their platforms globally.

African civil society organisations have written to the European Union to ensure allocation of funding to African governments is not applied to facilitate the use of surveillance which violates the fundamental rights of citizens.