Month: January 2022
PI intervenes in judicial review to support asylum seekers against the UK Home Secretary’s seizure and extraction of their mobile phones
Last week, Privacy International intervened in an important and long overdue Judicial Review into the UK Home Office’s secret and…
ID systems analysed: e-Estonia | Privacy International
X-Road Security Architecture. Source: https://x-road.global/security The Information System produces or consumes services via X-Road and is owned by an X-Road…
PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance
First published in 2017, “PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance” is an attempt to collate relevant excerpts from these…
Global News Roundup: Jan. 24-31, 2022
In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, the IAPP released its compilation of 2022 global legislative predictions. The U.S….
Data Protection Impact Assessments and ID systems: the 2021 Kenyan ruling on Huduma Namba
In a ruling handed down on 14 October 2021 by the High Court of Kenya in relation to an application…
PI welcomes new guidelines by the Council of Europe on the use of personal data in political campaigns
The role that personal data plays in political campaigns https://privacyinternational.org/learn/data-and-elections and the risks of data abuse and exploitation only entered…
Recommendations for the trilogue on the Digital Markets Act
Privacy International (PI) welcomes the aim of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to address some of the challenges posed by…
Free to Protest (Paraguay) | Privacy International
‘Free to Protest: The protestor’s guide to police surveillance and how to avoid it’ (UK edition) is a collection of…
Global News Roundup: Jan. 18-24, 2022
In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, IAPP Staff Writer Jennifer Bryant examined the potential implications the Austrian Data…