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🚨 Registration for the Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2024 (PDAF) ends on 28 May. Don’t miss the chance to attend the forum’s virtual activities on the 4th and 5th of June!
📌 Reserve your seat now: https://cutt.ly/KetgRXdS

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Revealed: The EU Training Regime Teaching Neighbours How to Spy:

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4289/revealed-eu-training-regime-teaching-neighbours-how-spy

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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

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Did you know we have a podcast?

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website! 👂

https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/technology-pill-podcast

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On Wednesday, a UK court dealt the third legal blow in just 3 months to the country’s policy of GPS tagging of migrants, subjecting them to 24/7 surveillance.

What happened?

Our lawyers have put together a recap for some Friday reading:

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5323/two-court-judgments-one-regulatory-decision-bricks-fall-around-uks-gps-tagging

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The first was on 1 March, the UK’s data protection authority (ICO) found the policy of GPS tagging asylum seekers arriving to the UK unlawful under data protection laws, and issued a formal warning to the Home Office for all future compliance of GPS tagging.

The second on 12 March, the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber) ruled in the case of Mark Nelson, a car mechanic and father of five, that his GPS tagging had been unlawful for over a year.

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The third came on Wednesday. The judgment is another significant vindication for those who brought the claims and for their rights. These are people who have been through all kinds of harshness (they are asylum seekers, undocumented, or survivors of trafficking).

The UK Home Office had placed them under 24/7 surveillance, either by shackling them with GPS ankle tags or by requiring them to carry GPS-enabled devices that vibrate at random times requiring urgent fingerprint scans.

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They are a 26-year old Portuguese national, a 36-year old Jamaican survivor of modern slavery with learning difficulties, a 25-year old Sudanese survivor of torture and trafficking, and a 59-year old Nigerian survivor of FGM who now has four children inc. two British citizens.

They sued the Home Office for having breached public principles and their human rights.

And won on many counts.

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Beyond the great wins for the individual Claimants that this judgment represents, it also exposed the multiple failings in the administration of GPS tagging that plague a cruel, vindictive and unnecessary policy.

Nothing short of a complete withdrawal of the policy will satisfy the UK’s human rights obligations.

The considerable time and resources spent on it must be replaced with safe, humane and legal routes to migration.

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Car manufacturers have started treating cars like glorified smartphones.

They’re embedded with sensors and processors with increasing connectivity, which means vast amounts of data is being generated on your driving behaviours everytime you take the wheel. 😬

We’ve seen insurance & advertising business models being trialled based on the data gathered from your car. Law enforcement agencies are also getting in on it, getting the tools to access these new data sources.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/connected-cars-illegal-data-collection-and-use-now-on-ftcs-radar/

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The problem is, we have little to no control over the data.

This data can be hidden and hard to access. We may have to agree to its collection to start the ignition.

And now, the US government is already investigating whether cars are national security threats because of this vast amount of data being collected.

While their focus is on China, we think the global industry deserves equal scrutiny, and not just for new cars but for all the cars on the road.

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We want all car manufacturers to do more to protect you and your data.

They know how valuable this data is and it’s about time they take people’s privacy more seriously.

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What’s always motivated and inspired us is what privacy enables, and what we lose if we lose our privacy.

That’s why we looked at the key role plays in protecting people’s freedoms.

We call this series Privacy Matters - enjoy!
https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/privacy-matters

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🧐 There’s a misconception that privacy is just about hiding personal information, but privacy is actually so much more than that.

Privacy is foundational to who we are as human beings.
https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/privacy-matters

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Another week, another trial of AI surveillance ahead of the Paris Olympics. This time, Swifties become the test subjects.

AI-driven identification may lead to unfair, discriminatory or biased outcomes. People can be misclassified, misidentified or judged negatively, & such errors or biases may disproportionately affect certain groups of people, including black & trans communities.

We won't let this go until human rights & democracy protections are properly applied.

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/05/07/videosurveillance-algorithmique-des-tests-en-region-parisienne-en-marge-des-concerts-de-taylor-swift_6232030_4408996.html

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The UK's record on civic and political rights was recently examined by the UN Human Rights Committee. 🇺🇳

TL;DR, it was appalling. ☠️

In particular, they called out the cruel policy of GPS tagging migrants.

https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2FC%2FUSA%2FCO%2F5&Lang=en

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Want to know why you are being followed around the web by the same ad? It’s really easy just go to…we’re kidding you’ll never know 😡

✨ But there are things you can do. Read our guides to see how you could protect you & your friends from online tracking
https://privacyinternational.org/act/protect-yourself-online-tracking

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ICYMI: Yesterday was International Workers' Day!

From the gig economy to remote workplace surveillance, read our compilation of stories exposing how things can go wrong when software and algorithms are deployed without care: https://privacyinternational.org/examples/examples-algorithmic-management-abuses

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Tech companies usually want you to believe technology will improve anything, including managing humans. That’s not the story we’re witnessing. 👀

Algorithmic management and workplace surveillance can come with very real and harmful consequences, from breach of fundamental rights to job loss.

To read about some of those stories, check our website 👇
https://privacyinternational.org/examples/examples-algorithmic-management-abuses

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On today's International Workers' Day we're looking at how work has been changing through algorithmic management, or the practice of managing employees through software, can have harmful consequences on our lives, livelihood, and futures 🤕

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As we fight against its unrestrained deployment, we decided to keep track of the harms it can create and damage it has already done

https://privacyinternational.org/examples/examples-algorithmic-management-abuses

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If you’ve applied for a job, there’s a chance that your potential new employer has used AI software from a third-party company in determining your application.

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Using rights, such as the right to access your data, when applying for a job might seem like a far-off possibility. But it can be the only way to show that an employer has acted in a discriminatory way or breached your data rights.

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The use of AI in recruitment cannot mean that applicants should have to sacrifice control over their data simply to access employment.

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This is why we have submitted a response to the UK Data Protection Authority (the ICO) on its consultation regarding its new recruitment guidance. Read what we said here.👇👇

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5287/ai-powered-employment-practices-pis-response-icos-draft-recruitment-and-selection

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