Privacy International

A new investigation reveals the role of an American data-based digital advertising company in the highly divisive online re-election campaign of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta.

If the only thing needed for wide-scale hacking of webcams is the vulnerabilities, the tools to exploit them, the motivation and skills to use them, and the law on your side, well… A well-resourced intelligence agency like GCHQ has each of these in spades.

As the landscape of generation, collection, and other processing of data in the digital sphere evolves, a proposal by the LIBE Committtee of the European Parliament seeks to update the rules on confidentiality and security of electronic communications and online activities.

A joint statement by the Association of Progressive Communications, IFEX and 64 co-signatories at the UN-HRC 36 warns of the threat to human rights posed by recent attacks on the right to use encryption technology, in Turkey and across the globe.

Privacy International, in partnership with 30+ national human rights organisations, has written to national intelligence oversight bodies in over 40 countries seeking information on the intelligence sharing activities of their governments.

The era where we were in control of the data on our own computers has been replaced with devices containing sensors we cannot control, storing data we cannot access, in operating systems we cannot monitor, in environments where our rights are rendered meaningless.

On the one-year anniversary of the death of popular Cambodian activist Kem Ley, civil society organisations from around the world reiterated their call for an independent inquiry.

ARTICLE 19 and 82 other organisations urge “Five Eyes” to support the development and use of secure communications tools and technologies and reject policies that would prevent or undermine the use of strong encryption.