HMRC suspending payments to hundreds of families using travel surveillance data exposes the dangers of governments repurposing security tools to control citizens. Governments weaponising data against ...

PI presents its analysis of the Huduma Numba judgment in three parts: the clear wins, the parts that make some small steps forward but could have been better and the dissapointing losses. Kenya High ...

We all want a future where our families, friends, and communities can thrive — one rooted in justice, democracy, with social and political stability. But instead of heading toward that future, we’re ...

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 ...

Digital health apps of all kinds are being used by people to better understand their bodies, their fertility, and to access health information. But there are concerns that the information people both ...

With more and more connected devices around us, the chance that you've been hit by an update notification is high. But what do these software updates do? How do they actually work, and why are they ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the United Nations-led initiative to define the development agenda. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals, the SDG’s 17 goals – and the 169 ...

The NHS is not the only UK authority working with Palantir — the Cabinet Office, the police, the Ministry of Defence, and the Home Office have also had, or currently have, ties with the company The ...

A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense developed its ...

A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism. In Somalia, international entities like the US Department of Defense (DoD) ...

Unwanted Witness, our partner organisation based in Uganda, explore critical questions around Huawei's surveillance dealings with the Ugandan government raise. While Huawei's relationship with the ...

Governments around the world are increasingly making registration in national digital ID systems mandatory for populations, justifying its need on a range of issues from facilitating access to ...