Privacy International presents how the use of social media monitoring by governments and companies is an increasingly prevalent one, and as this article explores ...

Many democracies, particularly younger democracies, are increasingly looking to employ technology - including biometrics - to ...

We all generate vast amounts of data using our mobile phones. Surprisingly, the data created and collected by the apps we use such as Uber, Facebook, Slack and Alexa, is not stored on our phones, but ...

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LinkNYC, a system of 1,000 public wifi kiosks across all five boroughs of New City administered by the private consortium CityBridge, offers free high-speed wifi, phone calls, a charging station for ...

We fight for a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power. This means providing people with ways to take concrete action to protect themselves or ...

Eliot is Director for our Corporate Exploitation Programme, challenging Big Tech companies, data exploitative practices and the deployment of algorithmic management and surveillance systems. Before ...

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or ...

Alexandrine is Directory of Strategy at Privacy International. She manages and oversees the development and delivery of Privacy International's strategic portfolio ...

In 2017, a website run by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security leaked the personal details of over.1 million Aadhaar subscribers, most of them old age pensioners who had enabled automatic ...

A growing number of governments around the world are embracing hacking to facilitate their surveillance activities. But many deploy this capability in secret and without a clear basis in law.In the ...