The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has ruled that universities may no longer use facial recognition systems to monitor students during online exams. In its resolution, the Agency determined ...

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

Desde la selva del Amazonas hasta el África subsahariana, las empresas de tecnología buscan ampliar su dominio invirtiendo en ...

PI has obtained hundreds of documents detailing surveillance techniques used in trainings organised by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training; They’re being used to train authorities ...

Legal regimes governing situations of armed conflict and peace time have traditionally been clearly defined, leaving little to no doubt as to which regime applies to what situation. However, the ...

There is an urgent need for the regulation of facial recognition technologies in the UK to protect people from the grave risk it poses to human rights. In light of this, we conducted research to see ...

Privacy International ("PI") strongly believes that you have the right to control the use of your personal information, and that your privacy must be respected. We ...

UK Home Office’s uses two algorithms for immigration purposes seemingly without sufficient safeguards to protect the right to privacy and meet data protection standards. Migrants appear to be subject ...

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 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 ...

Many menstruating individuals today use period-tracking apps as a convenient digital tool on their smart phone to track their menstruation. In the UK, researchers have found that more women are using ...

On 13 March 2025, we filed a complaint against the UK government challenging their use of dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive surveillance powers to undermine the privacy and security of people ...