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Commercial mobile-forensics vendors such as and using a mix of logical file‑system collections, exploit‑based techniques that bypass or brute‑force passcodes, and—according to reporting—installation o...
HM Revenue & Customs has legal routes and operational precedents to obtain passenger travel records — airline manifests and flight records for tax (Air Passenger Duty) and investigations, and broader ...
Major encrypted messaging providers — , — and device platform owner have publicly opposed provisions in the ’s that could let regulator compel “accredited” or other measures to inspect end‑to‑end encr...
Privacy is widely recognized in major international instruments: Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 17 of the ICCPR protect against arbitrary or unlawful interference ...
Available reporting and public documents show MI5 is the United Kingdom’s civilian domestic security service with statutory powers and public accountability — not an explicitly criminal organisation —...
Since 2015 a patchwork of member states have adopted, amended or attempted laws that touch on and the anonymity of communications—some tightening retention and access rules, others having courts strik...
Independent media and NGO tallies — notably the ’s national count of more than 10,000 arrests during the –era demonstrations (AP) and regional or thematic trackers such as ’s Global Protest Tracker an...
International human rights bodies and experts have repeatedly treated tools as protections for the rights to privacy and , issuing strong guidance that states should not unduly limit or criminalize th...
Watchdog groups and FOIA releases have produced some contract documents and summaries that illuminatePalantir’s government work, including ICE’s publicly released contract files, but the evidence in t...
The UK Technical Capability Notice (TCN) issued to Apple under the Investigatory Powers Act demanded that Apple maintain the capability to provide access to data stored in its iCloud Advanced Data Pro...
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) administers Air Passenger Duty (APD) and relies on airline and operator passenger data to calculate, collect and enforce that tax from aircraft operators; airlin...
Countries confronting opt-out demands and the risk of function creep in national digital ID programs have used three broad levers—legal purpose-limitation, technical design choices (including decentra...
UK government plans make the new digital ID mandatory for specific uses — most clearly for right-to-work checks by the end of this Parliament — while promising the system will be optional for many oth...
Yes. Multiple reports and investigations show Egyptian intelligence and state-linked actors have surveilled and targeted journalists, activists and academics — including operations that reached abroad...