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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Support systems are undergoing significant digitisation and automation under the banner of efficiency. Privacy International calls for the impacts of these ...

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 ...

This written piece is part of PI's wider research into the tech behind ID systems around the world. Click here to learn more. Aadhaar (Hindi for ‘foundation’) is India’s ID programme, the largest in ...