19.11.2025
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Two reports show privacy must be at the heart of trust in government

Today’s release of two reports into the protection of personal information show agencies must be better at privacy, says Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster. The Inquiry into how government agencies protected...

DPDI Bill: New ‘welfare surveillance’ proposals target vulnerable people

The UK government is proposing to give the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) powers to force financial institutions to hand over personal information belonging to people who claim...

EFF Warns Supreme Court That Users’ Speech is at Stake When Increasing Platforms’ Liability

SAN FRANCISCO – Increasing online platforms’ liability for hosting their users’ speech would lead to severe censorship that could undermine the very architecture of the free and open internet,...

New privacy legislation repeats past mistakes

Today Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, a three-tiered piece of legislation aimed at private sector privacy...

Poland: Use of Pegasus spyware to hack politicians highlights threat to civil society

Confirming that Amnesty International has independently confirmed that Pegasus spyware was used to hack Polish senator, Krzysztof Brejza, when he was running the opposition’s 2019 parliamentary election campaign, Amnesty...

EU: Pegasus project prize win highlights importance of media freedom

Responding to the news that the European Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism has been awarded to the Forbidden Stories Consortium, of which Amnesty International was the technical partner,...

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