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 ...

Period tracking apps and the rollback of reproductive rights. The aftermath of the overturning of Roe v.Wade in the United States (US) sparked widespread debate and concern that data from period ...

Layla looks at her calendar on her phone. She’s in charge of planning her book club’s monthly meeting. After thinking for a second, she summons her AI assistant: “Hey Assistant, can you book me a ...

Go back to the full report page. Read our analysis of our research findings, including the limitations of the method, the use of advertising and analytics SDKs, other third-party developer tooks, ...

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 ...

Bure protests & nuclear wastes. What happened. According to information provided to us by organisation Data Rights, in August 2017, several protests erupted in Bure, a village in the Meuse region of ...

IntroductionHarnessing 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 ...

On 3rd May, 2024, the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) issued its ...

An oven-ready infrastructure is already in place to enable this - government initiatives, such as the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard Hub provide a template for public authorities to ...

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

Models can be continually re-trained through iteration from human feedback to further fine-tune inadequate behaviours and to make the model more robust, such as OpenAI being able to detect and prevent ...

The promise of a free and open internet was taken over by behavioural advertising. This model came with costs, including to our privacy. The requirements for behavioural advertising to happen was a ...