We explored what the recently adopted ILO Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy will mean for workers and labour rights, and analysed what are gaps that still need to be addressed during ...

Five companies lie at the heart of the UK’s GPS tagging system: Capita, G4S, Airbus, Telefonica and Buddi. It’s a complex entanglement of private third party responsibilities, with Capita as a core ...

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 ...

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or ...

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 ...

Yesterday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal announced next steps in Apple’s and PI’s challenges to the purported UK order undermining iCloud’s security. The Tribunal declared that it will aim to hear ...

GPS ankle tags are used around the world in the criminal justice and immigration enforcement sectors, to monitor people's location 24/7. How do these tags work? What's the impact on people made to ...

Many democracies, particularly younger democracies, are increasingly looking to employ technology - including biometrics - to coordinate the running of their electoral processes. Governments give ...

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

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 ...

If you’re in the UK you may know Bounty as the company that distribute packs of samples to pregnant women at midwife appointments. They’re also the ones that were found to have illegally shared the ...

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.