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 ...

UK Home Office’s uses two algorithms for immigration purposes seemingly without sufficient safeguards to protect the right to privacy and meet data protection standards. Migrants appear to be subject ...

AI chatbots are used by people in a variety of ways, including to conduct research, create content and analyses, deliver projects, and engage in conversations. We are concerned these AI tools can pose ...

Privacy International presents how the use of social media monitoring by governments and companies is an increasingly prevalent one, and as this article explores ...

This explainer takes a look at the main ways in which large language models (LLMs) threaten your privacy and data protection rights. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) in late 2022 has ...

Companies selling diet programmes are using tests to lure users. Those tests encourage users to share sensitive personal data, including about their physical and mental health. But what happens to the ...

Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data ...

We all want a future where our families, friends, and communities can thrive — one rooted in justice, democracy, with social and political stability. But instead of heading toward that future, we’re ...

With more and more connected devices around us, the chance that you've been hit by an update notification is high. But what do these software updates do? How do they actually work, and why are they ...

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers. Key findings The ...

There is an urgent need for the regulation of facial recognition technologies in the UK to protect people from the grave risk it poses to human rights. In light of this, we conducted research to see ...

Health data is increasingly seen as a highly valuable commodity to be traded and collected by companies to fuel their analytics or advertising. The power and control these companies have over our ...