Human rights abuses based on use of new technologies happen everywhere in the world. Almost all governments try to acquire more control on people by use of modern technologies (e.g. facial recognition ...

As states around the world seek to expand their surveillance capabilities and "harness the power of data" to deliver public services, they are often tempted to use the services of private technology ...

Surveillance alone may suggest residence but it does not prove that a Living Together As a Married Couple (LTAMC) situation exists. However, together with other information, surveillance may suggest a ...

The EU is using aid funds to build mass-scale and high-risk biometric identification systems to manage migration flows to Europe and to facilitate deportations; Civipol, a well-connected French ...

The picture that WIE’s research paints is one where algorithms are shaping the work experience of drivers, offering them limited visibility or avenues for redress when a decision about them is made.

Self-supervised learning is the stage in which the basic foundation model is built from raw, unlabeled yet curated data, typically a massive database like those from crawling the web (e.g., Common ...

PI has obtained hundreds of documents detailing surveillance techniques used in trainings organised by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training; They’re being used to train authorities ...

GPS ankle tags can report the wearer's complete location history - a log of where the tag wearer has been minute-by-minute, every day. GPS tags work in a similar way to smartphone apps such as Google ...

The NHS is not the only UK authority working with Palantir — the Cabinet Office, the police, the Ministry of Defence, and the Home Office have also had, or currently have, ties with the company The ...

On 13 March 2025, we filed a complaint against the UK government challenging their use of dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive surveillance powers to undermine the privacy and security of people ...

Background Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will eventually be used to give every person in the country a unique ...

Image attribution: By Legaleagle86 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. In a long-anticipated judgment, the Indian Supreme Court has ruled that India's controversial identification system Aadhaar is ...