Governments around the world are building increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructures to monitor migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at borders and within countries.

Today we learned the UK has issued a new secret order forcing Apple to undermine iCloud’s advanced encryption again, but this time only for UK users. While this seems like progress - and it is in the ...

The rise of the gig-economy, a way of working relying on short term contracts and temporary jobs rather than on an employed workforce, has enabled the growth of a number of companies over the last few ...

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases. The Government has ...

In March 2025, PI (together with three co-claimants including Liberty) filed a complaint against the UK Government. We’re challenging their use of dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive ...

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 ...

PI presents here 5 profiles of companies involved in political campaigning in order to provide a snapshot of how the digital political campaign sector works and further highlight the opacity and ...

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 ...

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is preparing an opinion on AI models, following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission. This opinion is expected to cover how personal data is ...

Chatbots are being given 'connectors' like MCP to be able to access other services that you use. This access will include the ability to read and write to your calendars, files, and third party ...

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 ...

The UK parliamentary committee’s report following their investigation into electronic monitoring and GPS tagging questions its use in the context of immigration and highlights the ethical and legal ...