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2026-03-29 16:23:01 UTC

Are you a sexual and reproductive justice activist or organisation looking to protect your work and those you fight for? Read on!
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-26 11:01:25 UTC

♥️ ¡Hemos creado una baraja de cartas sobre tecnología, datos y elecciones! Ofrecen a los observadores electorales y a la sociedad civil las herramientas necesarias para explorar el papel de las tecnologías en el proceso electoral. https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5724/juego-de-cartas-tecnologia-datos-elecciones

2026-03-26 11:01:25 UTC

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Nuestras cartas electorales son una forma divertida de explorar temas importantes como:
♥ Por qué es importante la protección de datos durante el ciclo electoral
♦ Qué tecnología se utiliza en la administración electoral
♠ Qué normativas se aplican a los partidos políticos y otros actores políticos
♣ El papel de internet y las redes sociales en las elecciones y las campañas políticas

2026-03-26 11:01:25 UTC

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♠️ Cada tarjeta contiene una pregunta que invita a los jugadores a reflexionar sobre lo que sucede en sus contextos electorales. Las tarjetas generarán debates sobre la importancia de la privacidad durante el ciclo electoral.
♦️ Las cartas de las elecciones se basan en nuestra completa Lista de verificación de tecnología, datos y elecciones: https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/Data%20and%20elections%20checklist_Update_Final_21Nov_Spanish_Reduced.pdf

2026-03-25 16:43:01 UTC

📣 Finland's new social welfare legal reforms pose a serious threats to human rights. https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5729/joint-statement-new-finnish-social-welfare-laws-human-rights-implications

2026-03-25 11:00:40 UTC

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Similarly, PI, along with 30 partners all over the world are calling on the International Labour Organisation to adopt international legally binding standards that better protect platform workers.
The ILO will soon be voting on these labour standards to be adopted in its Convention affecting Platform Workers around the world.
We are closely analysing the drafts and discussion, so stay tuned for a deeper analysis of each draft leading up to June.
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5595/joint-civil-society-declaration-international-labour-conference-2025

2026-03-25 11:00:39 UTC

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The research indicates that across the countries studied there is a lack of minimum standards for fair work in the region’s platform economy, and more must be done by platforms to improve working conditions.
Interestingly Fairwork reported that several countries are taking steps to regulate platform work in the region, placing it as the second most active region globally in regulating the new platform labour dynamic.

2026-03-25 11:00:39 UTC

We’re happy to see the Fairwork network launch seven insightful new reports assessing the working conditions on digital labor platforms in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay.
https://www.tedic.org/en/economia-de-plataformas-bajo-la-lupa-red-de-investigadores-fairwork-presenta-nuevos-reportes-enfocados-en-latinoamerica/

2026-03-24 10:22:01 UTC

Check out our practical guide on protecting your digital privacy while advocating for reproductive justice 👉 https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-23 17:23:01 UTC

We're telling the Finnish government their new social welfare reforms risk harming human rights
https://www.edf-feph.org/publications/joint-statement-on-human-rights-risks-in-finlands-new-social-welfare-laws/

2026-03-21 17:23:01 UTC

Read our guide 'Securing Reproductive Justice: A Guide to Digital Privacy for Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activists'
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https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-20 23:07:01 UTC

Better regulations and standards, court rulings and regulatory action, challenging business-models, inspiring movements and more 💪
See key highlights of our impact: https://pvcy.org/S1AKRS

2026-03-20 17:46:27 UTC

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We recently responded to the UK Home Office consultation on FRT within which we outline the necessary and safeguards required to ensure FRT is deployed in a way that is compliant with human rights.
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5741/privacy-internationals-response-uk-home-office-consultation-facial-recognition

2026-03-20 17:46:26 UTC

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PI has continued to raise concerns about the human rights implications with this highly invasive technology including racial bias and discriminatory outcomes and the need for specific legislation to regulate FRT.

2026-03-20 17:46:26 UTC

Essex police has paused deploying facial recognition technology (FRT) after identifying potential accuracy and bias risks.
A report from the University of Cambridge last week showed only half of the people on a watchlist were correctly identified, and the system was found more likely to correctly identify men than women, and more likely to correctly identify black men than any other ethnic group.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/essex-police-pause-facial-recognition-camera-use-study-racial-bias

2026-03-19 10:22:01 UTC

Say No to Palantir in the NHS
https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/

2026-03-18 17:23:01 UTC

Though 2025 was tumultuous, we were able to generate significant change that directly affects every one of us 🚀
Here are some of our biggest achievements: https://pvcy.org/S1AKRS

2026-03-17 17:01:40 UTC

What happens when AI brings the dead back as a chatbot? Gus and Caitlin dig into the ethics of posthumous AI with James Muldoon on the new episode of Tech Pill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYRSru9T9c

2026-03-17 10:22:01 UTC

New reforms in Finland are set to allow 24/7 surveillance inside the homes of people with disabilities as part of new disproportionate intrusive surveillance of people accessing public services in the name of austerity.

2026-03-17 10:22:01 UTC

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Read our joint statement with the European Disability Forum and Finnish Disability Forum representative and join us as we challenge governments around the world to uphold and protect human rights as technology becomes embedded in social protection systems.
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5729/joint-statement-new-finnish-social-welfare-laws-human-rights-implications

2026-03-16 17:01:09 UTC

2026-03-16 11:30:19 UTC

Though 2025 was tumultuous, we were able to generate significant change that directly affects every one of us. 🚀
Here are some of our biggest achievements: https://pvcy.org/S1AKRS

2026-03-16 08:30:11 UTC

Join the webinar today to find out more about the risks of Palantir in the NHS
https://www.medact.org/event/briefing-launch-the-risks-of-palantir-in-the-nhs/

2026-03-15 17:23:01 UTC

Just Eat Takeaway have been being bought out by Prosus a tech investor based in the Netherlands. We explore what that might mean for Just Eat's drivers.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-justeat-drivers

2026-03-15 14:00:29 UTC

2026-03-14 17:23:01 UTC

Join us on Monday to discuss why the NHS should say no to Palantir in the NHS
https://www.medact.org/event/briefing-launch-the-risks-of-palantir-in-the-nhs/

2026-03-14 14:01:17 UTC

Sexual and Reproductive Justice (SRJ) activists are operating in legally restrictive environments and consequently facing heightened risk of surveillance by law enforcement and nefarious actors.

2026-03-14 14:01:17 UTC

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As a result, SRJ activists are forced to rethink how they conduct their work and activism online to protect themselves and the individuals they assist.

2026-03-14 14:01:17 UTC

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In collaboration with Women on Web we created ‘A guide to Digital Privacy for Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activists’ to help activists better protect their privacy online and to secure their devices.

2026-03-14 14:01:17 UTC

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We hope the guide will help SRJ activists navigate this hostile environment and equip them with tools and tactics to protect their online privacy. You can access the guide here: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-14 10:22:01 UTC

2026-03-13 23:07:02 UTC

We have created a practical guide that sexual and reproductive justice activists can use to help protect their privacy online and to secure their devices.
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https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-13 17:23:02 UTC

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2026-03-13 17:23:02 UTC

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These reforms represent technosolutionism without care or due diligence, leading to serious harms for people in vulnerable situations, including violations of the right to privacy.

2026-03-13 17:23:02 UTC

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Kela also uses Artificial Intelligence within its systems, and "has developed an AI platform hosted on-site to automate the processing of millions of documents annually" but this remains a black box - and internal safeguarding mechanisms are reportedly largely voluntary.

2026-03-13 17:23:01 UTC

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The Finnish social welfare system is administered by an independent social security institution 'Kela', which is supervised by the Finnish Parliament. In the name of austerity, new reforms are set to allow disproportionate intrusive surveillance of people accessing public services, including 24/7 surveillance inside the homes of people with disabilities.

2026-03-13 17:23:01 UTC

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Financial data can provide significantly invasive insight into almost all areas of a person's life, and risks special category protected sensitive data, such as health data being inferred, for example health conditions being inferred from certain payments.

2026-03-13 17:23:01 UTC

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The reforms also allow for financial surveillance of people accessing the welfare system - without their consent.

2026-03-13 16:00:25 UTC

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The UK government has acknowledged the need for a legal framework on how FRT is used by law enforcement given its risk to rights, and recently consulted on to how this should look - including when police can access public databases for FRT searches. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/legal-framework-for-using-facial-recognition-in-law-enforcement/consultation-on-a-new-legal-framework-for-law-enforcement-use-of-biometrics-facial-recognition-and-similar-technologies-accessible

2026-03-13 16:00:25 UTC

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It is disappointing that whilst we await the outcome of the consultation, the government continues to roll out FRT and make future plans to enhance its capabilities through searches against public databases, making the assumption it will be permitted in the first place.

2026-03-13 16:00:25 UTC

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Last year, representatives of PI and Big Brother Watch issued pre-action correspondence to the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police about similar concerning use of the passport and immigration databases for FRT searches, which have massively increased over the last few years. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5635/revealed-skyrocketing-scale-uk-polices-secret-facial-recognition-searches

2026-03-13 16:00:25 UTC

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We responded to the consultation highlighting the need for restrictions and safeguards around the use of this invasive tech including when law enforcement can access a database for FRT searches. https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5741/privacy-internationals-response-uk-home-office-consultation-facial-recognition

2026-03-13 16:00:25 UTC

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The use of any database should be outlined in law and require an assessment of whether it is necessary and proportionate - a requirement that is hard to meet for databases which contain information on most of the population.

2026-03-13 16:00:24 UTC

This week the UK government announced a public consultation on digital ID that includes a suggestion that police could access the facial images held on the digital ID database to conduct facial recognition tech (FRT) searches. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-public-services-work-for-you-with-your-digital-identity/making-public-services-work-for-you-with-your-digital-identity

2026-03-13 16:00:24 UTC

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FRT would turn these photos into biometric data – a category of sensitive data like DNA and fingerprints that can be used to uniquely identify individuals. Given the sensitivity of biometric data, the UK does not hold population-wide databases of DNA or fingerprint records that can be used for criminal investigations. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5635/revealed-skyrocketing-scale-uk-polices-secret-facial-recognition-searches

2026-03-13 10:22:01 UTC

Find out why we're saying no to Palantir in the NHS
https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/

2026-03-13 08:30:15 UTC

The United States government and huge AI companies are using your data as part of the war machine.
Their ethics have been breached. The red lines have been crossed.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5744/what-does-it-mean-when-big-tech-goes-war

2026-03-12 17:23:02 UTC

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US data analytics firm Palantir may have access to your sensitive health data.

2026-03-12 17:23:02 UTC

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We urge decision makers to reconsider the NHS contract with Palantir. https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s481

2026-03-12 17:23:02 UTC

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If you'd like to learn more regarding the risks of Palantir in the NHS, you can join also join the webinar on Monday https://www.medact.org/event/briefing-launch-the-risks-of-palantir-in-the-nhs/

2026-03-12 17:23:01 UTC

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We supported Medact's briefing for NHS Trust Boards, Integrated Care Boards, Health Scrutiny Committees, and Health Data Governance Committees which aims to inform of these concerns and empower them to question Palantir's role in the NHS
https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/

2026-03-12 17:23:01 UTC

US data analytics firm Palantir may have access to your sensitive health data.

2026-03-12 17:23:01 UTC

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Known for its numerous contracts with intelligence agencies, military forces, law enforcement and immigration authorities - Palantir also have a contract with NHS England to deliver the Federated Data Platform (FDP).
https://privacyinternational.org/examples/5299/controversial-data-analytics-firm-palantir-run-uks-health-data-platform

2026-03-12 16:45:08 UTC

Our analysis of the UK's GPS tagging of migrants shows that it has not adequately addressed the data protection violations identified by the UK data protection authority and also it has pushed legislation that overlooks its findings completely 👉 https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5738/analysis-disclosures-following-ico-enforcement-notice-gps-tagging-migrants
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2026-03-11 08:31:02 UTC

AI is being used by intelligence agencies for counter-terrorism. But what they end up building is automated surveillance, which can wrongly flag individuals as threats.
Privacy International spoke at the United Nations about how technical failures become human rights issues.
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5745/privacy-internationals-remarks-side-event-61st-session-un-human-rights-council-human

2026-03-10 12:01:41 UTC

NEW: 63% of sexual and reproductive justice activists who responded to our survey shared fears of being surveilled. We have developed a guide to help them better protect their privacy online and on their devices.
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

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We hope these measures will help SRJ activists to better manage the risks they are exposed to, and help to equip them to protect themselves, their devices, and the people with whom they work online.

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

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You can access our ‘Guide to Digital Privacy for Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activists’ here: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5742/privacy-international-women-web-securing-reproductive-justice-guide-digital-privacy

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

Sexual and reproductive justice (SRJ) activists are finding themselves in an increasingly hostile environment with increased criminalisation and surveillance of those seeking access to sexual and reproductive healthcare.

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

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As a consequence activists are having to adapt how they work to protect themselves and the people they support in the digital space.

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

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To address this, in collaboration with Women on Web, we developed a practical guide offering steps that SRJ activists may take to help protect their privacy online and to secure their devices.

2026-03-09 17:01:29 UTC

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The guide includes concrete actions you can take to protect your privacy while using social media and messaging apps, as well as measures to help secure your devices and minimise online tracking, including how to use features like disposable email addresses and VPNs.

2026-03-09 11:00:04 UTC

"Companies shouldn’t be exploiting data – whether it belongs to their employees or their customers – in ways that put their profits over people’s privacy.
"Aggregated data can be used by anyone who buys it for surveillance and profiling."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/06/lloyds-under-fire-for-selling-customer-data/

2026-03-08 18:30:10 UTC

2026-03-06 17:30:07 UTC

2026-03-06 15:45:08 UTC

New profiles just dropped in our Dual-Use Technology series! Want to learn more about how companies develop commercial tech that feeds the military industrial complex and vice-versa? Read our most recent reports on Thales, Leonardo, Elbit and Skydio 🕵️‍ https://pvcy.org/dualuse

2026-03-05 16:30:09 UTC

Who knew letting people record everything they saw, everywhere they saw it, with a pair of Rayban glasses would be a privacy nightmare?
https://mashable.com/article/meta-ai-ray-ban-glasses-intimate-videos-workers

2026-03-05 16:30:09 UTC

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If you'd like to learn more about data labelling, we did a deep dive into the underbelly of the AI supply chain powered by human labellers who have to sit through some of the most graphic footage to train AI models - often without knowing what company they're working for.
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5357/humans-ai-loop-data-labelers-behind-some-most-powerful-llms-training-datasets

2026-03-05 16:30:09 UTC

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Data labellers, whose job it is to review swathes of footage to train AI models, have revealed that they’ve had to analyse footage where subjects don’t appear aware they’re being recorded - including in bathrooms.
But if these data labellers bring up these privacy concerns, some believe they are risking their jobs.

2026-03-04 16:00:12 UTC

There's nothing controversial about E2EE.
Unless you think it's controversial for private conversations to be.... private?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

2026-03-04 13:59:05 UTC

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For JustEat drivers the options are not good. Few companies are competing to offer them a better workplace; instead there seems to be a new race to the bottom for workers’ rights.

2026-03-04 13:59:05 UTC

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Prosus - and any other company looking to get involved in the gig economy - need to face up to the responsibilities they have to their workers, who are after all the people who are ultimately the ones driving their profits.
Read more: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-justeat-drivers

2026-03-04 13:59:05 UTC

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At the very least, Prosus should explain to JustEat drivers what AI models they intend to integrate, and how they will be affected.

2026-03-04 13:59:05 UTC

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Jitse Groen - JustEat's outgoing boss - said it best when he said that the gig economy “led to precarious working conditions” and “comes at the expense of society and workers themselves”.
https://www.ft.com/content/d39a8f7b-30e5-4eaf-9c80-3b0da99ca863

2026-03-04 13:59:04 UTC

All change at JustEat Takeaway - new owners promise an 'AI first' business, but what will that mean for drivers?
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-justeat-drivers
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2026-03-04 13:59:04 UTC

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Even if Prosus do make working conditions for drivers worse, then drivers may be disappointed (if not surprised) to find that their other options - big figures including Deliveroo and Uber Eats - have received huge fines in recent years for violating their drivers’ rights.

2026-03-03 12:30:12 UTC

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These findings are disturbing. They indicate a lack of respect for the authority and expertise of regulatory oversight bodies. When such mechanisms are undermined, so is our ability to hold the UK government to account and to effectively protect people.

2026-03-03 12:30:12 UTC

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The invasiveness and life-altering impact of continuous monitoring of people by compelling GPS tracking has no regard for the right to privacy and other fundamental rights.

2026-03-03 12:30:12 UTC

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Not only has the government not adequately addressed the data protection violations identified by the ICO, but it has pushed legislation that overlooks its findings completely.
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/03/ico-finds-the-home-office-s-pilot-of-gps-electronic-monitoring-of-migrants-breached-uk-data-protection-law/

2026-03-03 12:30:12 UTC

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But we won't stop. We keep fighting to ensure that everyone is protected against government overreach that undermines people's rights, autonomy and dignity.
Find out more 👉 privacyinternational.org/long-read/5738/analysis-disclosures-following-ico-enforcement-notice-gps-tagging-migrants

2026-03-03 12:30:11 UTC

PI is concerned that the authority of regulatory oversight mechanisms is being undermined by the UK government.
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5738/analysis-disclosures-following-ico-enforcement-notice-gps-tagging-migrants

2026-03-03 12:30:11 UTC

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Since the Information Commissioner's Office concluded that the GPS tagging of migrants by the UK Home Office was in breach of data protection laws, we've been analysing the Home Office's policies.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5261/gps-tagging-migrants-unlawful-uk-authority-finds-after-pi-complaint
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2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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Using this technology, the state could silently surveil you more effectively, and stalkers could easily track women online.
VLMs could also have a chilling effect on freedom of assembly, and enable social media platforms to monetise location data.

2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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Most state-of-the-art VLMs are closed-source, so we don’t understand their inner workings. But we do know that they can have emergent qualities - new features that develop over time.

2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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At Privacy International, we are working to stop this. Visit our website to read our latest report about the privacy risks of VLMs.
https://privacyinternational.org/report/5736/nowhere-hide-privacy-risks-and-policy-implications-ai-geolocation

2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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Right now, VLMs are not entirely accurate. Some models tested only guessed the location in a photo within 1 km of the exact spot 29% of the time. But technology is improving all the time.

2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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So even if a model was trained originally to caption images, it may eventually learn to identify flags, landmarks, or understand scripts.

2026-03-02 16:00:35 UTC

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VLMs can identify objects in a photo, read text from images, and recognise landmarks, architectural styles, road layouts, vegetation, climate-related features, signage, and cultural artefacts. All of this data can build up an idea of where a picture is taken.

2026-03-02 16:00:34 UTC

Billions of photos are shared on social media every day. Each one of those is now a portal to your precise location.
New developments in a type of artificial intelligence called Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are a huge threat on your privacy.
https://privacyinternational.org/report/5736/nowhere-hide-privacy-risks-and-policy-implications-ai-geolocation

2026-03-02 13:07:05 UTC

Anthropic refused to support the Department of War - but OpenAI stepped in to fill the gap.
And once again, the United States is bombing the Middle East.
We can’t rely on companies’ sense of morality to protect people from the militarisation of tech.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5739/anthropic-and-us-government-conflict-larger-you-think

2026-03-01 14:05:01 UTC

No-one knows what JustEat Takeaway's new owners will mean for the working conditions of their drivers
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-just-eat-drivers

2026-02-27 18:00:10 UTC

Anthropic and the US government have been fighting this week.
This fight is not just about surveillance, but is part of the wider trend towards the militarisation of tech.
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5739/anthropic-and-us-government-conflict-larger-you-think

2026-02-27 17:23:02 UTC

What does Prosus’s buyout mean for Just Eat drivers?
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-just-eat-drivers

2026-02-26 16:46:01 UTC

Private military and security companies are using more drones, facial recognition and spyware to monitor people - and what starts on the battlefield will soon come to your backyard
https://blog.icoca.ch/exploring-the-privatisation-of-surveillance-and-its-human-rights-implications/

2026-02-26 14:36:02 UTC

Discord’s decision to pause its rollout of age verification emphasises what privacy advocates have been long-saying about the technology: it creates a honeypot for malicious individuals, with no guarantees for users that the company they’re uploading their face to is safe.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5737/discord-pushes-back-age-verification-after-security-risks-revealed

2026-02-26 10:02:42 UTC

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A high court ruling from back in 2012 ruled that holding data of innocent people was unlawful, yet 14 years on, that seems to have been ignored. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/24/police-told-to-delete-on-request-images-of-innocent-people

2026-02-26 10:02:42 UTC

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What’s more, FRT has repeatedly been shown to misidentify people, disproportionately impacting racialised communities.
When police treat a match like this as sufficient grounds for arrest, the presumption of innocence is weakened and due process is undermined.
This is not just a one off either. It’s a consequence of deploying biased, opaque biometric systems at scale with little legislation governing it.

2026-02-26 10:02:42 UTC

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The UK Home Office has just undertaken a public consultation on governing biometric technologies in policing, including FRT.
We hope this consultation leads to meaningful change to ensure this situation does not happen again.

2026-02-26 10:02:42 UTC

FRT has led to yet another wrongful arrest in the UK. This time, a man was detained for hours after the technology matched him to a burglary 100 miles away in spite of clear differences.
The police retained an image of the man after he was attacked 5 years prior. Even an innocent person’s face can remain searchable in police databases, potentially triggering future ‘matches’ and further scrutiny.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away