Until recently, advertisers have been able to track users across their iPhones and the web using the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), a unique identifier that could be accessed by the apps you used ...

Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice for many years throughout the world. As traditional radio-frequency tags are replaced by GPS ankle tags, we examine how these different ...

The privatisation of migration control and policing takes different shapes and forms. The latest iteration comes in disguise – specifically, in four pastel colours: if you were to look at this company ...

Big Tech is now in the business of enabling government surveillance. It was just a matter of time before they became tools of war and abuse. In their gold rush to build cloud and AI tools, Big Tech is ...

Immunity passports could involve the restricting peoples' liberties of individuals on the basis of their' immunity status, or lack of it. Quarantining is a significant interference with rights, which ...

Since the early stages of consumer AI, it’s been a fear that generative AI would collide with fundamental rights. The Grok AI deepfake scandal may become a canary in the proverbial coalmine of what ...

Working from home bolstered the use of remote surveillance software to monitor employees. It's not only tools that are developed specifically for surveillance, traditional productivity suites might ...

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 ...

A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism. In Israel/Palestine, the Israeli government has been deploying biometrics, ...

As governments rush to adopt artificial intelligence in public services, Privacy International asks who controls these systems, how people’s data is protected, and ...

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers. Key findings The ...

When it comes to the conversation of advertising technologies (AdTech), you probably typically think about tracker pixels and cookies. However, there is another pernicious tracking technique lurking ...