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PROTEST SURVEILLANCE INTO COURT Intrusive surveillance technology is increasingly used during protests around the world, and is now being used to prosecute activists and peaceful protesters. Read our report:
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With this report, we shed light on the due process implications of the blanket and indiscriminate surveillance of protesters, activists, and human rights defenders participating in protests.
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The entanglement of civilian & military data blurs legal boundaries, creating critical gaps in privacy protections. It’s time to bridge this gap.
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Legal regimes governing situations of armed conflict and peace time have traditionally been clearly defined, leaving little to no doubt as to which regime applies to what situation. However, the...
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Tech companies working in both peace and conflict contexts face unpredictable legal duties; their roles and involvement in conflict can vary.
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Model 3 and Model Y battery packs retain 85% of their capacity on average after 200K miles of driving We also offer an 8 years or 120,000 miles battery warranty, whichever comes first
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Parties to a conflict increasingly rely on data to inform or justify their decisions. Do they enjoy unrestricted freedom to collect and process data in ways that can later inform technologies employed in civic spaces?
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How do the rights to privacy & data protection apply in armed conflict? International Humanitarian Law seems to be silent on data protection. But protections of these rights are needed more than ever before to limit the adverse effects of exploitative data-intensive systems.
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Legal regimes governing armed conflict and peace are traditionally clearly defined - but the militarisation of tech challenges this tidy distinction.
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If you are thinking about ditching health insurance all together but are worried about going completely naked in the case something big comes up, you should give CrowdHealth a look. Here is what our CrowdHealth members have paid on average/month over the last 12 months: $143
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During our recent session on AI and human rights, Alex Pirlot de Corbion, Director of Strategy at @privacyint, warns that our dependency on big tech could be irreversible unless swift action is taken to implement guardrails ⬇️
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What does this mean for our future? Learn more in this piece we wrote for @techpolicypress:
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We’re seeing not just an arms race but a tech dependency race, where civil and military systems merge and the battlefield comes home, writes Ilia Siatitsa.
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What we’re witnessing here is not just an arms race. It’s a race of technological dependency where civil and military infrastructures are fusing. The battlefield is embedded in our cities, our homes, and our daily lives.
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These companies build autonomous drones and robotic systems - part of a growing wave of defence-tech innovation. And our personal data is the critical resource underlying much of this innovation.
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Earlier this year, Europe saw a milestone: three defence start-ups reached unicorn status, each valued at over €1 billion.
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Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity. While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control. Learn more:
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Privacy is a universal right, but for people with disabilities, it’s often compromised in the very systems designed to support them. Accessing essential services and benefits frequently requires the...
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Learn more about the UK's use of intrusive surveillance practices on beneficiaries, and the frequent incorrect application of its systems here
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In May 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – the department in charge of welfare – published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations.
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Sharing passenger records between agencies to determine benefits is another example of function creep. The collection and sharing of airline data, which once purportedly prevented terrorism, is now being used to decide whether children in the UK receive their government allowance
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Innocent families were deprived of a vital benefit because they had taken different routes to exit and re-enter the country, changed their travel plans, or had flights cancelled. Of 23,500 affected families, only around 500 have had their benefits reinstated.
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This latest revelation means that the UK's HM Revenue and Customs, which administers the Child Benefit, was accessing airlines' passenger bookings data to inform its assessments, without checking whether flights were actually taken.
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🚨UK tax authorities forced to re-evaluate their policy of suspending benefits without due diligence after 23,500 families had their child benefit payments wrongly cut. https://t.co/iXYGQk6S7H
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Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK
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Education should nurture curiosity, not feed algorithms that children are unable to consent to. It’s time to question how deeply surveillance is being built into childhood itself. Read our article with @defenddigitalme 👉
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In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary...
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In Bristol, for example, police “crime incident” reports about schoolchildren are sent directly to the schools through a system built on data from 50,000 families. Parents are rarely told.
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Every school day generates new data — behaviour scores, attendance logs, even predictions of future performance. This information can follow a child for life, stored indefinitely in these databases.
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