Extracting Data from Smartphones

Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones...

How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network is still tracking you – despite your protest. Facebook collects data of non-users of its social network via dozens of mainstream Android apps that send tracking an...

Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

Equifax, Experian and Oracle are among a slate of companies whose business is consumer information, that could soon face billions of dollars in fines for improper data handling. Privacy International has filed complaints against seven corporations, consisting of data brokers Acxiom and Oracle,...

Rights Groups Call for More Change Two Years After Snowden Revelations Began

It’s been two years now since the first stories about NSA surveillance capabilities began to appear, and the environment has shifted dramatically in that time. Awareness of and resistance to mass surveillance has increased greatly, but the changes to policy and laws that many observers had hoped...

UK Government Rewrites Laws to Let GCHQ Hack Into Computers Legally

The UK Government has quietly changed the Anti-Hacking Laws quietly that exempt GCHQ, police, and other electronic intelligence agencies from criminal prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones and carrying out its controversial surveillance practices. The details of the changes wer...

Experts Question Legality of Use of Regin Malware by Intel Agencies

The disclosure of the Regin APT malware campaign this week has spurred much speculation about the source of the attack, with many experts pointing the finger at either the NSA or GCHQ, the British spy agency. Though security researchers involved in uncovering the attack have remained mum on the...

Avoiding the Privacy Apocalypse

Google has been criticized widely for its privacy practices, and some of the harshest critiques have come from outside privacy advocates. In this video, Simon Davies and Gus Hosein of Privacy International discuss the ways in which companies such as Google that have large amounts of user data can...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.privacyinternational.org

Security researcher xylitol, has submitted on 25/08/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.privacyinternational.org, which at the time of submission ranked 334680 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 31/08/2008. ...