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 ...

The CrowdStrike incident earlier this year had major implications for governments and businesses across the world. Here, we look at what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern ...

Clearview have been told that the EU and UK GDPRs apply to their indefensible business of selling your face to foreign law enforcement agencies, after PI intervened in a recent legal case. On 7th ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most surprising — and concerning — capabilities of the newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is their ability to infer geographic location from images. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) ...

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 ...