Privacy International

Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess : what you need to know
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3792/covid-contact-tracing-apps-are-complicated-mess-what-you-need-

As Governments, Apple and Google compete in proximity tracing, here’s our take on building tech in times of crisis. Key findings Contact tracing is an important emergency healthcare initiative, and is necessarily invasive. Coronavirus Apps do much more and much less than manual contact tracing. There are dangerous tracing initiatives that regularly report on your activities. There are interesting initiatives that may or may not work. These are somewhat privacy-aware, and can be either (...)

#Apple #Google #algorithme #Bluetooth #CCTV #smartphone #contactTracing #géolocalisation #technologisme #consentement #FAI #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance (...)

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Press release : 10 questions to Palantir from privacy organisations | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/3732/press-release-10-questions-palantir-privacy-organisations

Today Privacy International and four other UK privacy organisations have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis. Key points Privacy International, Big Brother Watch, medConfidential, Foxglove, and Open Rights Group have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis. We are primarily interested in if and how Palantir will (...)

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Telco data and Covid-19 : A primer | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/3679/telco-data-and-covid-19-primer

In a scramble to track, and thereby stem the flow of new cases of Coronavirus, Governments around the world are rushing to track the locations of their populace. One way to do this is to leverage the metadata held by mobile service providers in order to track the movements of a population, as seen in Italy, Germany and Austria, and with the European Commission. This sort of population and movement tracking is neither new nor novel - indeed, PI have been pushing back against measures of (...)

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Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3678/zoom-not-worst-just-getting-attention-software-deserves

The rise of scrutiny of Zoom is welcome evidence that privacy and security is valued and essential as our lives and interactions become increasingly virtual. Key points Zoom already had security challenges before the Coronavirus-caused lockdowns. Massive adoption of Zoom led to more scrutiny and exposure of privacy and security issues. Any software under the same scrutiny and without a strong focus on these features would have shown similar failures. Communications apps and services deserve (...)

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A documentation of data exploitation in sexual and reproductive rights | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3669/documentation-data-exploitation-sexual-and-reproductive-rights

Key findings PI has documented 10 data exploitative tactics that the opposition is using to delay or curtail access to reproductive healthcare. We women and other subjects capable of gestating are subjects of our own lives, not living parts of a reproductive machine that produces material and spiritual richness and which pretends to define us as managed instead of managers of our own existence... Our motto : “Sex education to decide, contraceptives to prevent abortion, legal abortion to not (...)

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Fighting the Global Covid-19 Power-Grab | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/fighting-global-covid-19-power-grab

In the rush to respond to Covid-19 and its aftermath, government and companies are exploiting data with few safeguards. PI is acting to ensure that this crisis isn’t abused. Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some of these measures impose severe restrictions on people’s freedoms, including to their privacy and other human rights. Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, and (...)

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Poland : App helps police monitor home quarantine | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/examples/3473/poland-app-helps-police-monitor-home-quarantine

Too much : plus besoin de bracelets électronique, le mobile suffit... Impressionnant d’imaginer l’usage demain, sur le lieu de travail : prouver toutes les vingt minutes que vous êtes bien dans l’environnement qui vous a été attribué.

The Polish government has developed the free Home Quarantine app for both iPhone and Android, which allows the police to check that individuals do not break quarantine; those who do may be fined up to PLN 5,000 and also offers support to those who are quarantined. Once users activate the app by entering a phone number and a code sent via SMS, they send a reference photo. Every so often the app sends an unscheduled request for a new photo to be sent within 20 minutes. The system checks both the person (using facial recognition) and the location, essentially replicating what would otherwise be a visit from a police officer. Non-quarantined people cannot sign up, as the app is connected to a database of telephone numbers belonging to those ordered into quarantine. The app also gives access to relevant health information and a hotline. The government intends to add more functionality to the app over time.

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Taking a depression test online ? Go ahead, they’re listening | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3188/taking-depression-test-online-go-ahead-theyre-listening

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 25 percent of the European population suffers from depression or anxiety each year, yet about 50% of major depressions remain untreated. This means that everyday thousands of people are looking for information about depression online. They take tests to find out how serious their symptoms are, they try to access resources, or seek information on how best to support a loved one. Given that the internet is plagued with trackers, whose sole (...)

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Why am I really seeing that ad ? The answer might be Real Time Bidding (RTB) | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2974/why-am-i-really-seeing-ad-answer-might-be-real-time-bidding-rt

Targeted online ads can be confusing. Sometimes, it seems as if advertisers know us better than we know ourselves and sometimes the opposite. Then again, an ad is chasing us around the internet, it can get very annoying and even distressing. What all targeted ads have in common is that it’s often impossible to understand why we are being targeted – and how much of our data is being collected and shared along the way. So, why are you really seeing this ad ? One answer is Real Time Bidding (...)

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Most cookie banners are annoying and deceptive. This is not consent. | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2975/most-cookie-banners-are-annoying-and-deceptive-not-consent

You’re on your phone trying to check an article a friend has sent you, or quickly looking up info about an event that’s happening this weekend. And there it is : a gigantic cookie banner, a privacy notice that blocks your screen with a big, visible “ACCEPT” button. This is what the AdTech industry considers consent, and how companies like Quantcast end up claiming that their consent rate is over 90 percent. We think there something deeply wrong with that. Nudging users to consent… Globally (...)

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Your mental health for sale | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/your-mental-health-sale

Over the past decade targeted advertisement has become exponentially more invasive. To enable targeted advertisement as it is common today, massive amounts of data about individuals are collected, shared and processed. In practice, this means that most of what you do online - such as the websites you visit, the apps that you use, what you do on them, what you watch, what you buy, what you read, your location and your interests etc. – is being tracked, shared and used to profile you. To (...)

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REPORT : Your mental health for sale | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/report/3193/report-your-mental-health-sale

How websites about depression share data with advertisers and leak depression test results According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 25% of the population in Europe experiencedepression or anxiety each year, yetabout 50% of people with major depression remain untreated.1Shame and silence around mental health problems can be as bad asthe problem itself and Privacy International supports campaigns that aim to change the way we all think and act about mental health. Given (...)

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Senior Google engineer reveals privacy bombshell in Android’s preinstalled apps | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3330/senior-google-engineer-reveals-privacy-bombshell-androids-prei

Maddie Stone, formally a Senior reverse engineer and tech lead on the Android security team, shockingly revealed a number of examples of how pre-installed apps on Android devices can undermine users privacy and security in her BlackHat USA talk in August 2019. The video of the talk only recently became available to the public in late December 2019. The apps in question come preloaded on a device when it is purchased and often can’t be removed. Stone reveals a litany of abuses carried out by (...)

#Google #Android #malware #smartphone #data #écoutes #PrivacyInternational

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Women’s Aid and Privacy International launch digital information cards to help women stay safe on Valentine’s Day | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3366/womens-aid-and-privacy-international-launch-digital-informatio

Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day to celebrate relationships, but many relationships that begin romantically can quickly become controlling, with partners reading emails, checking texts and locations of social media posts. This can be just the beginning. Today, Friday 14th February, Privacy International and Women’s Aid are launching a series of digital social media cards giving women practical information on how to help stay safe digitally from control and (...)

#géolocalisation #violence #femmes #harcèlement #surveillance #viol #PrivacyInternational

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Advocate General’s Opinion : national security mass retention regimes are incompatible with EU Law | PI
▻https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3334/advocate-generals-opinion-national-security-mass-retention-reg

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Today Advocate General (AG) Campos Sánchez-Bordona of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), issued his opinions (C-623/17, C-511/18 and C-512/18 and C-520/18) on how he believes the Court should rule on vital questions relating to the conditions under which security and intelligence agencies in the UK, France and Belgium could have access to communications data retained by telecommunications providers. The AG addressed two major questions : (1) When (...)

#GCHQ #MI5 #législation #data #surveillance #LoiRenseignement #CJUE #PrivacyInternational

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An open letter to Google
▻https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3320/open-letter-google

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 Today, Privacy International and over 50 other organisations have submitted a letter to Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai asking Google to take action against exploitative pre-installed software on Android devices. You can find the letter below. Add your voice to this campaign by signing our petition if you believe that its time Google stopped enabling exploitation. Note : This letter is also available in French and Spanish Dear Mr. Pichai, We, the undersigned, (...)

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#PrivacyWins : EU Border Guards Cancel Plans to Spy on Social Media (for now)
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3288/privacywins-eu-border-guards-cancel-plans-spy-social-media-now

As any data protection lawyer and privacy activist will attest, there’s nothing like a well-designed and enforced data protection law to keep the totalitarian tendencies of modern Big Brother in check. While the EU’s data protection rules aren’t perfect, they at least provide some limits over how far EU bodies, governments and corporations can go when they decide to spy on people. This is something the bloc’s border control agency, Frontex, learned recently after coming up with a plan to (...)

#Frontex #migration #frontières #SocialNetwork #surveillance #web #PrivacyInternational

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Surveillance Company Cellebrite Finds a New Exploit : Spying on Asylum Seekers
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2776/surveillance-company-cellebrite-finds-new-exploit-spying-asylu

Cellebrite, a surveillance firm marketing itself as the “global leader in digital intelligence”, is marketing its digital extraction devices at a new target : authorities interrogating people seeking asylum. Israel-based Cellebrite, a subsidiary of Japan’s Sun Corporation, markets forensic tools which empower authorities to bypass passwords on digital devices, allowing them to download, analyse, and visualise data. Its products are in wide use across the world : a 2019 marketing brochure (...)

#Cellebrite #smartphone #migration #hacking #sécuritaire #surveillance #PrivacyInternational

Data Exploitation and Democratic Societies
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2850/data-exploitation-and-democratic-societies

Democratic society is under threat from a range of players exploiting our data in ways which are often hidden and unaccountable. These actors are manifold : traditional political parties (from the whole political spectrum), organisations or individuals pushing particular political agendas, foreign actors aiming at interfering with national democratic processes, and the industries that provide products that facilitate the actions of the others (from public facing ones, such as social media (...)

#Exxon_Mobil #Google #Mozilla #Facebook #WhatsApp #Instagram #Twitter #YouTube #algorithme #manipulation #électeurs #élections #BigData #publicité #profiling (...)

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When Your Data Becomes Political
▻https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/when-your-data-becomes-political

Have you ever wondered why you’re seeing an ad online ? In your social media feed, in apps, or while browsing the internet ? What you see is determined in large part by your data. The exploitation of data dominates the news these days - and the use of advertising in politics is front and centre to this exploitation. Advertisers are able to buy access to very personal information about you and then infer even more about you. They are able to use this information to target ads at you with (...)

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