In 2017, when user Robert Martin posted a frustrated, disparaging review of the remote garage door opening kit Garadget on Amazon, the peeved owner briefly locked him out of the company's server and ...

In England’s schools, children are tracked from birth through a vast, opaque network of digital systems that turn education into a lifelong exercise in data collection and surveillance. Digital Health ...

Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data ...

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases. The Government has ...

In this section you will find a wide range of content that we hope you will find useful in learning more about how technology, privacy, autonomy and freedom are deeply interconnected. We also provide ...

Companies selling diet programmes are using tests to lure users. Those tests encourage users to share sensitive personal data, including about their physical and mental health. But what happens to the ...

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

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 enforcement are ...

In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record ...

Privacy is a fundamental right, essential to autonomy and the protection of human dignity, serving as the foundation upon which many other human rights are built ...

Around the world, we are seeing the growth of digital IDs, and companies looking to offer ways for people to prove their identity online and off. The UK is no exception; indeed, the trade body for the ...

Prior to Kenya’s Presidential election in August 2022, PI travelled to Nairobi to collaborate with The Carter Center as part of their pre-election assessment team to assess the role of technology and ...