OpenAI received billions from Microsoft, Google has its web scraping capacities, Meta its treasure trove of data.
This is a reflection of deeper problems rooted in the surveillance practices of Big Tech.
https://t.co/LLJZqx3gjt
The companies building surveillance tools in conflict zones are playing central roles in our lives
The militarisation of tech is reshaping our townsquares
https://t.co/s84wgIrqYH
We are gathering evidence on facial recognition in education settings.
If you are aware of deployments in your country, your insight matters.
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV
AI companies like Nvidia, Anthropic and Amazon are enabling governments to expand their secret surveillance powers.
We need checks and balances urgently, not after they’ve built a new surveillance regime.
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare
One company involved in that is Airbus - commercial planes plus military tech. Read our report with @CorpWatchUK
https://t.co/xglLRiMVx4
Have you seen facial recognition used in a school or university?
This technology raises serious privacy and human rights concerns.
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV
MEPs are urging the European Commission to hold some of Europol's budget after it was revealed they were running a "shadow IT system" for phone records, identity documents, financial and geolocation information - even of people not suspected of a crime.
https://t.co/gB5ElkoV14
It can be overwhelming to think about the amount of data big tech has about us. But there are things you can do.
For example, you might be able to ask companies to give you a copy of your data. Learn how 💪
https://t.co/pC0sIVsIUZ
Education should not resemble a high-surveillance environment.
Privacy International is documenting the use of facial recognition in schools and universities. We need your input.
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV
The report highlights issues around the importance of privacy, public confidence and trust that we continue to raise. Trust is essential to delivering healthcare and the NHS.
Read more coverage about this issue: https://t.co/yAZ4Cf3JIu
NEW: The UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee have published a report following its inquiry into the UK government's plans for the digital transformation of public services.
https://t.co/IXooDnu2zX
The committee also echoed civil society calls on the government to exercise the Feb 2027 break clause in the contract with Palantir highlighting the lack of transparency over the nature of their access to identifiable and non-identifiable patient data.
https://t.co/ykkIbT4M5g
Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare
One company involved in that is Shield AI - building autonomous drones and AI pilots. Read our report with @CorpWatchUK
https://t.co/xvz5FxecPw
We continue to call for development and humanitarian donors and agencies to resist the adoption of technologies that facilitate surveillance, creating serious threats to individuals’ human rights, including their right to privacy.
https://t.co/OeNyUbM0mA
Social protection and humanitarian assistance programmes are incorporating tech solutions including algorithmic decision making at an alarming rate, and without, among others, appropriate human rights and data protection impact assessments. https://t.co/ITo1zOyOTi