Articles by Privacy International
UNHRC presented with another chance to protect the right to privacy. Will it take it?
Privacy International, in collaboration with civil society organisations in Hungary, Tanzania, Thailand and Ireland, has submitted reports presenting their concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy and related issues in these four countries.
Privacy isn’t dead yet: Reflections on UN HRC’s findings on South Africa
The Committee’s recommendations mark a major advancement in the struggle for privacy of communications in South Africa. It is now up to civil society and popular movements to ensure that abuses are stopped.
Mexico’s Supreme Court has a unique opportunity to stand against mass surveillance
This week the Mexican Supreme Court will issue its judgement on the country’s data retention. It will decide on an injunction against the provisions of the the Federal Telecommunications Act, which requires all telephone companies and internet service providers to retain user communications data for 24 months.
Hacking Team’s global license revoked by Italian export authorities
The move comes after intensive media scrutiny spurred by the hack of their internal systems last summer and revelations that they had sold surveillance technology to some of the world’s most authoritarian states.
The Panama Papers and the question of privacy
Ramon Fonseca, co-founder of disgraced Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, said the massive offshore company leak is a ‘campaign against privacy’. Privacy International disagrees.
Necessary and proportional: 10 ways to make digital security policies respect human rights
Civil society groups argue that it’s time for a shift in the discourse toward a human-centred policy implemented in accordance with international human rights standards.
Kazakhstan must ensure impartiality of actions towards Mateyev
A joint letter to Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbayev calling for review of recent state actions towards Seytkazy Matayev and the National Press Club.
With new spying powers on horizon, surveillance companies descend on U.K.
Surveillance companies and government officials from across the world gathered in the U.K. at the invitation of the Home Office for the UK’s “Premier Security and Law Enforcement Event”, one week after the controversial spying legislation, entitled the Investigatory Powers Bill, had its first reading in Parliament.