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Amazon Alexa/NHS contract : ICO allows partial disclosure - 3 mai 2021
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued a decision on our complaint relating to the failure by the UK Department of Health and Social Care to disclose the full, unredacted contract with Amazon.
Achieved Result
PI obtained a decision by the ICO ordering the disclosure of a section of the contract between the (...)
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Seeing stones : pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe - 10 avril 2021
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the (...)
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Threats in the usage of facial recognition technologies for authenticating transgender identities - 3 avril 2021
Our partner Coding Rights summarise the findings of their research on the impact of facial recognition on trans people.
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SERPRO is the main provider of Facial Recognition technologies to the Brazilian government. It is a public company with access to the database of all Brazilians drivers licenses, (...)
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Data Exploitation and Political Campaigning : A Company Guide Resource - 22 janvier 2021
PI presents here 5 profiles of companies involved in political campaigning in order to provide a snapshot of how the digital political campaign sector works and further highlight the opacity and concerns for privacy.
Key findings
PI analysed publicly available material in order to profile 5 companies (...)
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This App Claims It Can Detect ’Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t - 20 janvier 2021
Experts say an algorithm can’t determine whether you can be trusted by analyzing your face or voice. But that’s not stopping this company from trying.
“Determine how trustworthy a person is in just one minute.” That’s the pitch from DeepScore, a Tokyo-based company that spent last week marketing its facial and voice (...)
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My ID, my identity ? The impact of ID systems on transgender people in Argentina, France and the Philippines - 19 janvier 2021
My ID, my identity ? The impact of ID systems on transgender people in Argentina, France and the Philippines
We spoke to trans-right activists in three country : the Philippines, France and Argentina to understand how ID systems in their countries are impacting their lives and how certain legal frameworks may (...)
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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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We asked five menstruation apps for our data and here is what we found... - 27 décembre 2020
We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us.
Key findings
Out of the five apps we surveyed, two apps responded well and fully to our DSAR, one app did not give us our data, one never responded, and one is refusing to let us (...)
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Menstruation apps store excessive information, privacy charity says - 21 décembre 2020
Privacy International finds apps collect information on birth control habits or how hard it is for women to reach orgasm
Menstruation apps are unnecessarily storing personal data such as what medication women are on, their birth control habits and how hard women find it to reach orgasm, privacy campaigners have (...)
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European Commission green lights Google and Fitbit merger in a game-changing and disappointing decision for the rights of millions of Europeans - 19 décembre 2020
The European Commission has today concluded its review of Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit. Privacy International is disappointed that the Commission has decided to let the merger go through, allowing Google’s extraordinary power to expand into wearables and sensitive health data.
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The European (...)
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Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program : the impact on privacy rights - 27 novembre 2020
Our partner organisation InternetLab has been researching the Bolsa Familia Program and its consequences for gender and privacy, here are the first results.
Over the last months, the organisation InternetLab has researched privacy, data protection, gender, and social protection, focusing on the beneficiaries of (...)
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Benefitting whom ? An overview of companies profiting from “digital welfare” - 27 novembre 2020
Could private companies be the only ones really profitting from digital welfare ? This overview looks at the big players.
Key findings
Companies like IBM, MasterCard and credit scoring agencies are developping programmes that reshape our access to welfare.
A particular example is the case of the London Counter (...)
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Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds - 22 novembre 2020
Documents disclosed to Privacy International reveal how the European Union has been using aid funds to finance the development of biometric identity systems in countries in Africa as part of its response to migration, and highlight urgent concerns.
Key points
The EU is using aid funds to build mass-scale and (...)
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UK data regulator takes enforcement action to rein in data brokers’ use of people’s personal data - 29 octobre 2020
In a landmark decision that shines a light on widespread data protecton failings by the entire data broker industry, the ICO has today taken enforcement action against Experian, based in part on a complaint PI made in 2018.
Achieved Result
October 2020 update : Following our complaints to regulators in 2018 (...)
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ICO takes enforcement action against Experian after data broking investigation - 28 octobre 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) orders the credit reference agency Experian Limited to make fundamental changes to how it handles people’s personal data within its direct marketing services.
The enforcement notice follows a two-year investigation by the ICO into how Experian, Equifax and TransUnion used (...)
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Facewatch : the Reality Behind the Marketing Discourse - 18 octobre 2020
Key findings
Facewatch is allegedly developping a facial recognition technology that will work when people are wearing masks
Statements by the CEO of Facewatch and marketing documents suggest the company is partnering with police departments in the UK - but the reality is unclear
Beyond the marketing (...)
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Authorities Must Act on Police Face Surveillance Network by the Backdoor - 18 octobre 2020
Authorities Must Act on Police Face Surveillance Network by the Backdoorrivacy International is calling on regulatory and law enforcement bodies to investigate the roll out of a face surveillance network by a UK company called Facewatch.
Key points
Facewatch provide facial recognition analysis and biometric (...)
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Q&A : EU’s top court rules that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy - 8 octobre 2020
The Court of Justice of the European Union issued judgments in three cases in the UK, France and Belgium. We answer some of the main questions.
On 6th October 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued judgments in three cases from the UK (Privacy International), France (La Quadrature du Net (...)
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La justice de l’UE s’oppose à la collecte massive des données de connexions Internet et téléphoniques par les Etats - 6 octobre 2020
Selon le Cour de justice de l’UE, les Etats européens ne peuvent pas réclamer aux opérateurs une collecte massive des données de connexions à des fins judiciaires et de renseignement.
Les Etats européens peuvent-ils réclamer aux opérateurs une collecte massive des données de connexion à des fins judiciaires et de (...)
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Huawei infiltration in Uganda - 28 septembre 2020
Unwanted Witness, our partner organisation based in Uganda, explore critical questions around Huawei’s surveillance dealings with the Ugandan government raise. While Huawei’s relationship with the government raises concerns for human rights, many of these concerns remain unaddressed.
The Uganda government has a (...)
