The UK government has published a £20 million procurement for tech companies to provide live facial recognition technology (FRT) to police forces across the UK. Through BlueLight Commercial, a ...

In this guide you'll learn how to configure your Edge browser settings to harden your online privacy. Edge includes a basic tracking protection mechanism to prevent trackers from collecting data about ...

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 ...

PI presents its analysis of the Huduma Numba judgment in three parts: the clear wins, the parts that make some small steps forward but could have been better and the dissapointing losses. Kenya High ...

This written piece is part of PI's wider research into the tech behind ID systems around the world. Click here to learn more. Aadhaar (Hindi for ‘foundation’) is India’s ID programme, the largest in ...

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 ...

Working from home bolstered the use of remote surveillance software to monitor employees. It's not only tools that are developed specifically for surveillance, traditional productivity suites might ...

The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry. With this much data AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock details of your life for ...

Private companies, including Big Tech, are responsible for a large number of digital health tools. While there may be benefits to health, there are also potential threats to your privacy from these ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the United Nations-led initiative to define the development agenda. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals, the SDG’s 17 goals – and the 169 ...

This company profile put together in collaboration with Corporate Watch explores an example of militarisation of tech: a convergence of corporate interests and state power, that inevitably blurs what ...

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 ...