The Kenyan High Court ruled in January 2020 that the Kenyan ID system should not continue without further legislation to guarantee the security of biometric data and to ensure the system is not ...

New technologies continue to present great risks and opportunities for humanitarian action. To ensure that their use does not result in any harm, humanitarian organisations must develop and implement ...

Cellebrite, a surveillance firm marketing itself as the “global leader in digital intelligence”, is marketing its digital extraction devices at a new target: authorities interrogating people seeking ...

Questions of identification and ID, with their associated privacy risks, are only increasing. There are multiple dimensions to understanding the impact of ID and ...

The fintech sector, with its data-intensive approach to financial services, faces a looming problem. Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica have brought public awareness about abuses involving the use ...

Stardust is a New York-based astrology-themed period tracking app that has recently risen in popularity, having received a spike in downloads in the U.S. following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Note ...

Privacy International has joined a global coalition of privacy campaigners, tech companies, and technology experts to respond to proposals by British intelligence ...

Driven by the need to never again allow organised mass murder of the type inflicted during the Second World War, the European Union has brought its citizens unprecedented levels of peace underpinned ...

MI5 collected Privacy International’s private data and examined it GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 unlawfully collected data relating to UK charity Privacy International Privacy ...

The first half of 2018 saw two major privacy moments: in March, the Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, followed in May by the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") taking effect.

Image Source: "Voting Key" by CreditDebitPro is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Democratic society is under threat from a range of players exploiting our data in ways which are often hidden and unaccountable ...

Privacy International asked lawyers, activists, researchers and hackers at Defcon 2012 about some of the debates that thrive at the intersection between law ...