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December 18, 2020

Warning on telecoms firms selling access to surveillance companies

Telecom operators are selling access to a component of the cellular network to private surveillance firms, allowing them to locate and intercept the communications of unwitting targets.
December 7, 2020

France must revise bill on global security, say UN experts

France’s controversial bill on global security would be incompatible with international human rights law, and should be comprehensively revised, human rights experts have said.
December 1, 2020

Intrusive technology at work on the rise, says TUC report

The TUC says that Artificial Intelligence-powered technologies are being used for day-to-day line management, performance ratings, shift allocation and deciding who is disciplined or made redundant.
October 13, 2020

TUC calls on government to stand up to Amazon on workers’ rights

Unions say Amazon Prime Day is one of the most dangerous days for Amazon workers as they are pushed to meet relentless demand caused by heavy discounts.
May 21, 2020

Worldwide mass surveillance by Germany’s intelligence service declared unconstitutional

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has put an end to the mass surveillance of global internet traffic by the country's foreign intelligence service.
February 19, 2020

Report on human rights in Middle East and North Africa 2019

Governments across the Middle East and North Africa crushed protests with ruthless force during 2019, said Amnesty International as it published its annual human rights report on the region.
November 26, 2019

Leaked documents further proof of systematic persecution of Muslim ethnic groups in China

Hundreds of thousands of predominantly Muslim people are being subjected to brainwashing and other ill-treatment in detention camps in Xinjiang.
November 2, 2019

ACLU challenges FBI secrecy on facial recognition technology

The American Civil Liberties Union warns that face and other biometric surveillance technologies can enable the government to track people’s movements and associations in ways which threaten privacy and due process rights.
October 18, 2019

World stumbling into a digital welfare dystopia, warns UN human rights expert

Digital welfare states risk becoming Trojan Horses for hostility towards social protection and regulation, said the UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston.
June 12, 2019

MI5 'unlawfully' handled bulk surveillance data, Liberty litigation reveals

The British security service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years, and failed to give senior judges accurate information about repeated breaches of its duty to delete bulk surveillance data.