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Privacy International
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Privacy International
@privacyint
For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
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- WhatsApp's notification to accept its new policy or lose your account is wrong on so many levels we need a short thread to talk about it 🧵👇 1/9
- People from ethnic minorities have a higher chance of being targeted for their participation in #BlackLivesMatter protests. Read more about this selective targeting and what can be done to reduce its recurrence: privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/…
- MASSIVE - Court documents reveal UK intelligence agency unlawfully spied on Privacy International. We have been fighting against mass #surveillance for years. Updates to come. privacyinternational.org/press-release/…
- 🚨 NEW: Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that the UK passport and immigration databases - with over 150 million photos - are being increasingly used by police for mass facial recognition searches without a clear legal basis, or the public or Parliament’s knowledge.
- Now that #WhatsApp have updated their terms, forcing users to share their data with #Facebook, here's our suggested update to that notification you see at the top of your chats. #WhatsappNewPolicy #WhatsappPrivacy
- WE WON. After a five year battle, the UK High Court agreed with us: general warrants defy 250 years of common law jurisprudence. Read our press release 👇
- NEW deep-dive analysis of today's European Court of Human Rights judgment by PI lawyers @CWilsonPalow @scarletprim The judgment says that UK laws allowing #masssurveillance violate human rights. We brought the case after 2013 @Snowden revelations privacyinternational.org/feature/2267/u…
GIF - Six years after the @Snowden revelations, two governments describe their mass surveillance programmes - but who even noticed? We break down why it matters. privacyinternational.org/long-read/3164…
- The rule of law prevailed today! Six years after @Snowden's revelations, the High Court of South Africa declared that bulk interceptions practices are unlawful. The case was brought by @amaBhungane, we intervened with @r2kcampaign.
- Today, the Grand Chamber of the @ECHR_CEDH, Europe’s highest human rights court, confirms UK surveillance regime was unlawful. In 2013, after @Snowden's revelations, we brought the UK government to court together with many other NGOs. More on the judgment soon...
- Replying to @privacyintFirst this goes to show how much Facebook values their users' data over their users. "Accept our data grab or get out" is pretty far from what consent should look like under laws like GDPR 2/9
- We are bringing the UK govt to court over their large-scale hacking. We need your support. crowdjustice.com/hacking/ #FightGovHacking
