Privacy International (PI) provided a written response to the College of Policing consultation on the 'ethical use of data and technologies guidance' through which ...

Harnessing new digital technology to improve people’s health is now commonplace across the world. Countries and international organisations alike are devising digital health strategies and looking to ...

1. What is the issue? Governments and international organisations are developing and accessing databases to pursue a range of vague and ever-expanding aims, from countering terrorism and investigating ...

Expanding beyond GPS ankle tags, the Home Office has since Autumn 2022 been issuing so-called non-fitted devices (NFDs) to migrants who are on immigration bail and who are subject to electronic ...

This week we're talking to Matthew Hodgson, one of the founders of Matrix - a network for secure, decentralised communication, and CEO/CTO of Element - a communications platform built using Matrix, ...

“IPIC” ("Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases”) is an algorithm utilised by the UK Home Office that automatically identifies and recommends migrants for particular immigration decisions or ...

Many democracies, particularly younger democracies, are increasingly looking to employ technology - including biometrics - to coordinate the running of their electoral processes. Governments give ...

Increasingly every interaction that migrants have with a third-party, be it humanitarian or governments agencies, requires the processing of their personal data. The use of this data and new ...

We’ve published a new tech explainer on election technologies in Kenya. The explainer a deep dive into the technologies employed to manage and administer the election process in Kenya, such as ...

When it comes to elections around the world, we find ourselves in a terrain that is more and more populated by digital technologies, which have an increasingly critical impact upon the realisation of ...

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