2024 is a big year for sports fans. 🏆
Increasingly we have seen mass surveillance measures being introduced at sports events, impeding the enjoyment of the right to privacy and right to participate in sporting life.
Read our blog: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5325/sports-and-surveillance
Follow us today at the UN Human Rights Council #HRC55, at the interactive dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights & counter-terrorism. We welcomed the priorities set by the new mandate holder, Professor Saul and raised our concerns!
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session55/list-reports
Together with @a6dfd04e, we filed a third party intervention in the case, arguing that the warrantless and suspicionless search of someone’s phone is contrary to the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Read our full submissions here: https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/nabrdalik-v-poland
Together with @a6dfd04e, we filed a third party intervention in the case, arguing that the warrantless and suspicionless search of someone’s phone is contrary to the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Read our full submissions here: https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/nabrdalik-v-poland
CASE ALERT⚠️Looking through someone’s phone is infinitely more intrusive than searching their home. Border authorities regularly search people’s phones without a warrant - another unhinged border control practice. A new ECtHR case challenges that 👇 https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/nabrdalik-v-poland
Clearview is fighting the UK decision, arguing that the GDPR, which protects our right to data protection, doesn’t apply to them.
They’re saying that because they’re based in the US, they can steal anyone’s photos to feed their database and train their algorithm. 🤮
We continue to see the pitfalls of Clearview AI’s technology.
Maybe it’s about time they stop playing with our privacy and freedoms.
Our civil liberties and human rights are at stake. That’s why we and others around the world have been pursuing legal challenges against Clearview AI for the past few years.
In the US, the ACLU and organisations representing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, undocumented immigrants, and communities of color succeeded in banning Clearview from Illinois, which has very strict biometric privacy laws.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/big-win-settlement-ensures-clearview-ai-complies-with-groundbreaking-illinois
Once again, Clearview AI enabled a racist wrongful arrest.
AP News report that Randal Quran Reid was arrested and locked up for days for a crime committed in a US state he’d never been to.
Clearview AI’s facial recognition tool ‘matched’ him to video surveillance images of the crime. But it wasn’t him. How long are we going to accept policing with rights-infringing and dodgy technology?
https://apnews.com/article/mistaken-arrests-facial-recognition-technology-lawsuits-b613161c56472459df683f54320d08a7
Our civil liberties and human rights are at stake. That’s why we and others around the world have been pursuing legal challenges against Clearview AI for the past few years.
In the US, the ACLU and organisations representing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, undocumented immigrants, and communities of color succeeded in banning Clearview from Illinois, which has very strict biometric privacy laws.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/big-win-settlement-ensures-clearview-ai-complies-with-groundbreaking-illinois
In Russia, facial recognition technology in metro stations has been used to track and arrest peaceful protesters.
In Iran, it’s being used to monitor hijab compliance following the recent protests supporting the rights of women not to cover their heads.
Deploying FRT in protests risks normalising surveillance, has a chilling impact on the exercise of our right to protest, and leaves our facial data open to abuse by the police or others.
Since 2017, more than 132 countries have experienced significant protests. If you’ve attended a protest, there’s a good chance the local police have collected data about you without you knowing.
Recently, we have seen how live facial recognition technology, which matches images captured by cameras against facial images held in databases, is being used to police more and more public events, particularly protest.
In Russia, facial recognition technology in metro stations has been used to track and arrest peaceful protesters.
In Iran, it’s being used to monitor hijab compliance following the recent protests supporting the rights of women not to cover their heads.
Deploying FRT in protests risks normalising surveillance, has a chilling impact on the exercise of our right to protest, and leaves our facial data open to abuse by the police or others.
Today is International Safe Abortion Day.
Across the world, abortion continues to be criminalised, restricted and in some places under attack.
The right to privacy is vital in accessing reproductive healthcare, including access to safe abortion.
We continue to raise awareness around the new and invasive ways to surveil those seeking access to abortion through digital technologies and the exploitation of our sensitive health data.
Read our reflections: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5145/international-safe-abortion-day-2023
Do you know how much of your personal data is stored in your apps? 🤔
We’ve created a series of guides to help you collect your data from numerous social media apps, so that you can find out:
https://privacyinternational.org/act/get-app-cloud-data
🌟 Yesterday was International ID Day! 🌐 If you missed our video on the global #IdentityCrisis, don’t worry. You can catch up now and learn more about the critical issues around identity systems discussed by our global partners. Visit our website to watch the video: https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5126/identity-crisis-around-world/ #IdentityDay #LearnMore
The demand for 'bossware' (or employee monitoring tools) has soared in recent years and ‘productivity suites’ now regularly integrate discrete but invasive features that enable your boss to see how you are spending your day (2/4)
Are you being watched from home while you work from home?👩💻🕵️♀️
Many companies - even ironically Zoom - are now looking to wind back WFH flexibility, but are others looking for new ways to follow your every move in your home office... ? (1/4)
The demand for 'bossware' (or employee monitoring tools) has soared in recent years and ‘productivity suites’ now regularly integrate discrete but invasive features that enable your boss to see how you are spending your day (2/4)
Oddbean new post about login | logout
Notes by 135447d7 | export