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For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.

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We need your help!
Have you seen facial recognition used in a school or university?
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV

[Privacy International @privacyint]

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

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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

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Facial recognition is entering classrooms and campuses.
We are tracking its spread and impact on privacy rights.
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV

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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

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AI is entering public services fast. Should decisions about people’s lives rely on tools that are non-deterministic? https://t.co/uCAJ395aEO

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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.

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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

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Have you seen facial recognition used in a school or university?
This technology raises serious privacy and human rights concerns.
https://t.co/giyTkFusJV

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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World food Programme (WFP) data breach puts at risk 600,000 households in Gaza
https://t.co/ogb0bR7FuK

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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