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 ...

This company profile put together in collaboration with Corporate Watch explores an example of militarisation of tech: a convergence of corporate interests and state power, that inevitably blurs what ...

Working from home bolstered the use of remote surveillance software to monitor employees. It's not only tools that are developed specifically for surveillance, traditional productivity suites might ...

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 ...

As governments rush to adopt artificial intelligence in public services, Privacy International asks who controls these systems, how people’s data is protected, and ...

Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation ...

When it comes to the conversation of advertising technologies (AdTech), you probably typically think about tracker pixels and cookies. However, there is another pernicious tracking technique lurking ...

Football in the UK is more than a game. Stadiums are spaces of community, identity and expression. Our new report looks at what happens when facial recognition enters that space. Key findings The ...

There’s a haunting connection between the following set of seemingly random events: A group of friends in Michigan driving to buy a space heater in a car with a temporary license plate. A woman and ...

An IP address, which is used to direct communication between devices, can be linked to someone’s physical identity, in particular when combined with information held by an internet service provider.

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) ...

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 ...