The AI industry is rushing to build AI Assistants that integrate into our lives. These firms need to answer questions about how they will protect our data, including from them. Layla looks at her ...

This company profile put together in collaboration with Corporate Watch explores an example of militarisation of tech: a convergence of corporate interests and state power, that inevitably blurs what ...

Yesterday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal announced next steps in Apple’s and PI’s challenges to the purported UK order undermining iCloud’s security. The Tribunal declared that it will aim to hear ...

Our 2018 complaint against French AdTech company Criteo led to a €40 million fine for failing to ensure that data subjects had provided their consent to processing, to sufficiently inform them and to ...

Five companies lie at the heart of the UK’s GPS tagging system: Capita, G4S, Airbus, Telefonica and Buddi. It’s a complex entanglement of private third party responsibilities, with Capita as a core ...

There is an urgent need for the regulation of facial recognition technologies in the UK to protect people from the grave risk it poses to human rights. In light of this, we conducted research to see ...

Since the early stages of consumer AI, it’s been a fear that generative AI would collide with fundamental rights. The Grok AI deepfake scandal may become a canary in the proverbial coalmine of what ...

PI's investigation into two AI recruitment platforms exposes a lack of transparency and fairness for candidates in opaque and often unreliable systems. Identical CVs were scored differently across ...

Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation ...

The aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States (US) sparked widespread debate and concern that data from period tracking apps could be use to criminalise those seeking abortion ...

Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice for many years throughout the world. As traditional radio-frequency tags are replaced by GPS ankle tags, we examine how these different ...

In March 2025, PI (together with three co-claimants including Liberty) filed a complaint against the UK Government. We’re challenging their use of dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive ...