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Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible, Privacy Experts Say - 3 avril 2020
In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA’s Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica’s Christopher Wylie helped spur a global sea change in the public’s attitude toward privacy and global data dragnets. We may now be in the midst of another seismic moment in the history of digital privacy : Mass surveillance (...)
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Covid-19 doesn’t discriminate based on immigration status - nor should the Home Office | Privacy International - 31 mars 2020
Privacy International has joined JCWI, Liberty, Medact and other UK civil society organisations to call on Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary to enact urgent changes to ensure the safety of migrants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Privacy International has joined JCWI, Liberty, Medact and (...)
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Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections | Privacy International - 22 mars 2020
PI’s response to proposals by governments to use mobile phone location and other traffic data from telecos to help with Covid-19 response.
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UK government seeks to use mobile phone location and other traffic data from telecos to help with Covid-19 response.
Limited evidence to suggest that movement data (...)
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Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19 | Privacy International - 20 mars 2020
Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Some of these measures impose severe restrictions on people’s freedoms, including to their privacy and other human rights. Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, (...)
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Kenyan Court Ruling on Huduma Namba Identity System : the Good, the Bad and the Lessons | Privacy International - 18 mars 2020
PI presents its analysis of the Huduma Numba judgment in three parts : the clear wins, the parts that make some small steps forward but could have been better and the dissapointing losses.
Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will (...)
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Taking a depression test online ? Go ahead, they’re listening | PI - 13 mars 2020
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 25 percent of the European population suffers from depression or anxiety each year, yet about 50% of major depressions remain untreated. This means that everyday thousands of people are looking for information about depression online. They take tests to find out (...)
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Why am I really seeing that ad ? The answer might be Real Time Bidding (RTB) | PI - 13 mars 2020
Targeted online ads can be confusing. Sometimes, it seems as if advertisers know us better than we know ourselves and sometimes the opposite. Then again, an ad is chasing us around the internet, it can get very annoying and even distressing. What all targeted ads have in common is that it’s often impossible to (...)
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Most cookie banners are annoying and deceptive. This is not consent. | PI - 12 mars 2020
You’re on your phone trying to check an article a friend has sent you, or quickly looking up info about an event that’s happening this weekend. And there it is : a gigantic cookie banner, a privacy notice that blocks your screen with a big, visible "ACCEPT" button. This is what the AdTech industry considers consent, (...)
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Your mental health for sale | PI - 11 mars 2020
Over the past decade targeted advertisement has become exponentially more invasive. To enable targeted advertisement as it is common today, massive amounts of data about individuals are collected, shared and processed. In practice, this means that most of what you do online - such as the websites you visit, the (...)
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REPORT : Your mental health for sale | PI - 9 mars 2020
How websites about depression share data with advertisers and leak depression test results
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 25% of the population in Europe experiencedepression or anxiety each year, yetabout 50% of people with major depression remain untreated.1Shame and silence around (...)
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2020 is a crucial year to fight for data protection in Africa | PI - 7 mars 2020
Africa is a testing ground for technologies produced elsewhere : as a result, personal data of its people are increasingly stored in hundreds of databases. And commercial interests seem to often overshadow the EU’s stance as a global privacy leader. After looking at Europes’s shady funds to border forces in the (...)
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No, Facebook’s is not telling you everything | PI - 23 février 2020
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Despite Facebook claim, "Download Your Information" doesn’t provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their personal data
As a user this means you can’t exercise your rights under GDPR because you don’t know which companies have uploaded data to Facebook
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Senior Google engineer reveals privacy bombshell in Android’s preinstalled apps | PI - 21 février 2020
Maddie Stone, formally a Senior reverse engineer and tech lead on the Android security team, shockingly revealed a number of examples of how pre-installed apps on Android devices can undermine users privacy and security in her BlackHat USA talk in August 2019. The video of the talk only recently became available (...)
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Women’s Aid and Privacy International launch digital information cards to help women stay safe on Valentine’s Day | PI - 14 février 2020
Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day to celebrate relationships, but many relationships that begin romantically can quickly become controlling, with partners reading emails, checking texts and locations of social media posts. This can be just the beginning.
Today, Friday 14th February, Privacy International and (...)
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Mental health websites don’t have to sell your data. Most still do. | PI - 7 février 2020
Change is possible
Back in September 2019 we published the report Your Mental Health is for Sale exposing how a majority of the top websites related to mental health in France, Germany and the UK share data for advertising purposes. This report most notably highlighted how numerous mental health websites engage (...)
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PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge after MI5 admits that vast troves of personal data was held in “ungoverned spaces” | PI - 5 février 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
Privacy International (PI) and Liberty have filed on Friday a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial body that oversees the intelligence agencies, against MI5 in relation to how they handle vast troves of personal data.
The longstanding and serious failings (...)
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La médecine connectée à nos culottes | LINC - 3 février 2020
Les FemTech, applications et technologies dédiées à la santé des femmes, cristallisent tous les enjeux en termes de protection de données, mais aussi des opportunités et risques de l’usage des technologies dans le champ de la santé.
Les technologies dédiées à la santé des femmes (Femtech) sont un secteur en pleine (...)
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MONITORYOU : the MilliONs beIng spenT by the eu on develOping surveillance tech to taRget YOU | PI - 31 janvier 2020
The European Union (EU) spends billions on research and development aimed at driving economic growth and jobs, as well as furthering the bloc’s broader agenda. Within the current budget, known as Horizon 2020 and covering the years 2014-2020, some €80 billion has been made available for research in a huge number of (...)
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Bientôt dans presque tous les commissariats, un logiciel pour fouiller dans vos portables | StreetPress - 22 janvier 2020
Photos, vidéos, messageries (même chiffrées), géoloc… Que vous le vouliez ou non, bientôt les policiers et gendarmes pourront fouiller votre téléphone pendant les gardes à vue. Enquête sur un système de surveillance à la frontière de la légalité.
Milipol. Sept lettres bien connue du marché de la sécurité. Chaque année, ce (...)
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Cloud extraction technology : the secret tech that lets government agencies collect masses of data from your apps | PI - 19 janvier 2020
When government searches shift from the phone to the cloud : cloud extraction technology and ‘the future of mobile forensics’
Mobile phones remain the most frequently used and most important digital source for law enforcement investigations. Yet it is not just what is physically stored on the phone that law (...)
