Articles by Privacy International
Reclaiming privacy: a feminist manifesto
As Privacy International highlights in their latest report From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy – privacy has not always been on the side of women.
UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
The disclosures about GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 come less than a fortnight after a major UK mass surveillance programme was ruled unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights.
ECtHR: UK mass surveillance violates rights to privacy and free expression
According to the European Court of Human Rights, the UK’s mass interception programme “is incapable of keeping the ‘interference'” with fundamental rights to what is “necessary in a democratic society”.
Will Thomson Reuters stop facilitating the US’ “zero tolerance” policy?
Documentation shows that Thomson Reuters Corporation is selling access to highly sensitive and personal data to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, the authority responsible for implementing the US government’s zero tolerance immigration policy, including the separation of families at detention centres.
Challenging government hacking for surveillance in Latin America and Africa
The purpose of this briefing is to highlight examples of government hacking for surveillance that Privacy International, our partner organisations, and others have investigated in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Uganda and consider them alongside our 10 Hacking Safeguards.
New report shows how AI tools threaten right to privacy and freedom of expression
ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International’s new report examines how one particular AI technique, machine learning, impacts these rights, the implications we can expect, and how these must be addressed.
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are part of an industrial sector that exploits your data
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are but two of many companies that have data exploitation as their business model.
In the coming months, Privacy International is holding the data broker ecosystem to account for the data they hold on citizens without their permission.
States must provide comprehensive protections for secure communications
Organisations express concern to the UN HRC about the growing crackdown by states on secure digital communications, including encryption and technologies that enhance anonymity and confidentiality.