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BREAKING: The
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has concluded that a multi-billion euro fund supporting surveillance across Africa failed to protect human rights! The decision is in response to our complaint and marks a turning point in the fight against surveillance aid 🧵
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EU Watchdog Finds Commission Failed to Protect Human Rights From its Surveillance Aid to African...
The decision by the EU’s oversight body follows a year-long inquiry prompted by complaints outlining how EU bodies and agencies are cooperating with governments around the world to increase their...
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In our research on World Bank-funded safety-net projects during the pandemic, we assessed risks of: 🕶 surveillance of marginalised communities ❌ unequal access to urgent social protection disbursements 👁 privacy interferences Read more 👉
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The World Bank & social protection during crises: a privacy trade-off?
Introduction In response to the unprecedented social, economic, and public health threats posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank financed at least 232 "Covid-19 Response" projects.
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In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments took different approaches to emergency welfare benefits. From machine-learning in Nigeria to automated database syncs in Jordan, we look at the data-intensive tools deployed 👇
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Emergency Social Protection responses to Covid-19 around the world
The global COVID-19 health crisis not only induced a public health crisis, but has led to severe social, economic and educational crises which have laid bare any pre-existing gaps in social protect...
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We looked into 8 social safety-net projects financed by the World Bank during the pandemic. It wasn't clear whether the Bank systematically accounts for risks associated with data-intensive and tech-reliant social safety-net programmes. Read more 👇
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The World Bank & social protection during crises: a privacy trade-off?
Introduction In response to the unprecedented social, economic, and public health threats posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank financed at least 232 "Covid-19 Response" projects.
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Find out more about our recommendations regarding the drafting process of treaty including the meaningful participation of civil society and the integration of human rights. 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=PlLyTW
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The 3rd session of the @WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body is underway in Geneva. PI has sought to inform these to ensure the treaty puts the respect and protection of human rights at the centre of the prevention and response to future pandemics.👇 privacyinternational.org/advocacy/4990/
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Our Lifetime Account Charity Raffle has started! All proceeds will be donated to the 10 beneficiaries proposed by our community, along with a $100,000 donation from Proton. Learn more here: proton.me/blog/2022-life. You can purchase your raffle ticket from the link below. (1/2)
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Our Lifetime Account Charity Raffle has started! All proceeds will be donated to the 10 beneficiaries proposed by our community, along with a $100,000 donation from Proton. Learn more here: https://proton.me/blog/2022-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser. You can purchase your raffle ticket from the link below. (1/2)
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We've been working hard this year: ✅ Clearview AI has been fined ✅ The European Court of Human Rights confirmed that bulk interception violates fundamental rights ✅ Meta accepted to sell GIPHY Take a look at some of our key successes ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Producing real change
In 2022, Privacy International continues to produce real change by challenging governments and corporations that use data and technology to exploit us.
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The World Bank plays a huge role in developing & financing social protection programmes around the world 🌍 We wanted to understand how people’s right to privacy fits into these programmes. This is what we found 👇
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The World Bank & social protection during crises: a privacy trade-off?
Introduction In response to the unprecedented social, economic, and public health threats posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank financed at least 232 "Covid-19 Response" projects.
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Searching someone’s phone is a considerable intrusion into their private lives - and an interference with their human right to privacy. That’s why the UK High Court ruled the Home Office couldn’t do that to all asylum seekers arriving to UK shores/
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UK High Court rules blanket seizure of asylum seekers' phones breached Article 8 ECHR
Background Today judgment has been handed down in the landmark case of R (HM and MA and KH) v Secretary of S
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