The companies building surveillance tools in conflict zones are playing central roles in our lives The militarisation of tech is reshaping our townsquares

Europe's Horizon Europe programme is set to permit military research from 2028 - erasing a boundary that's defined European science for decades. As more universities enter dual-use research, we risk dual-use by design research resulting to more human rights violations www.sipri.org/commentary/t...

Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is IAI, Israel’s largest government employer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Football in the UK is more than a game. It’s an important part of community, identity and expression. Our report looks at what happens when facial recognition enters that space. privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...

Governments talk about an ‘AI race’ but speed without safeguards rarely ends well 🏁💥

Tools for everyday 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 @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Elbit - Israel’s largest arms producer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Today us and @article19 .bsky.social are at CPDP2026 for "Data-driven warfare: AI, civilian risks, and corporate responsibility." We'll be asking hard questions about surveillance, humanitarian law, and the export of military AI into civilian life

AI "decision support" tools are already shaping targeting decisions in Gaza and Ukraine. But who decides when a machine gets it wrong? Join us Friday at CPDP2026 to interrogate the human rights stakes of militarised AI - and what tech companies owe us.

Besides being super annoying, online adverts are mostly fuelled by a dodgy and secretive data industry. But don't despair! Here are a few simple actions you can take right now to fight back. 👇

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Leonardo, Italy’s largest defence and aerospace company. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

AI in public services is rolling out faster than scrutiny can keep up. Should essential services rely on black boxes? 🤔

War is being transformed by AI - and the companies building these systems are rarely held accountable. This week at CPDP2026, us and @article19 .bsky.social are hosting a session on data-driven warfare, civilian risk, and corporate responsibility.

War is being transformed by AI - and the companies building these systems are rarely held accountable. This week at CPDP2026, us and @article19 .bsky.social are hosting a session on data-driven warfare, civilian risk, and corporate responsibility. www.cpdpconferences.org/panels/data-...

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Skydio - America’s "leading drone manufacturer”. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Our website will be temporarily inoperable today, as the website content management system Drupal has announced a highly critical security risk that will require updating the software. Please share this news from Drupal with others who run similar sites www.drupal.org/psa-2026-05-18

Heading to CPDP2026 this week? Don’t miss Friday’s session on data-driven warfare with Privacy International and @article19 .bsky.social - AI, civilian risk, and why tech companies can’t keep dodging accountability

Meta is installing an app to track how its employees use their computers and using that data to train its AI models. No one should feel watched while they work.

Since the early stages of consumer AI, it’s been a fear that generative AI would collide with fundamental rights. The Grok AI deepfake scandal may become a canary in the proverbial coalmine of what happens when those warnings are ignored. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Thales - a prolific seller of surveillance tech. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

IP addresses are essential to the functioning of the Internet. But are they personal data?

When governments buy AI ‘solutions’, they also buy dependency and opacity. Is this modernisation or outsourcing responsibility?

Convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is the world’s largest arms dealer, Lockheed Martin. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is BAE - the UK’s largest arms company. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

The gig economy is ground zero for the use of experimental algorithms that use workers’ own data against them. Leaving workers playing a game that they don’t know the rules to, that the house always wins

AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data What does that means for your privacy?

📢 Take a look at our UK Free to Protest guides! 📢 We believe that people should be able to attend peaceful protests without the police using sophisticated surveillance tools to monitor, track and identify protestors indiscriminately. pvcy.org/freetoprotest

The Grok AI scandal may be one of the first major tests of whether existing data protection law can constrain generative AI systems. Regulators are investigating whether AI-generated deepfakes constitute unlawful processing of personal data under GDPR. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

Public money. Private AI models. Opaque contracts. Minimal accountability. We’ve seen this story before 👀

We welcome the UK government's confirmation, within the Kings Speech yesterday, that they plan to bring forward legislation to regulate the police's use of facial recognition technology (FRT).

Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is IAI, Israel’s largest government employer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

The companies building surveillance tools in conflict zones are playing central roles in our lives The militarisation of tech is reshaping our townsquares

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 @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Think Office365 is just about Word, Outlook and Teams? What if we told you it can also be used by your employer to spy on you?

Tools for everyday 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 @corporatewatch.bsky.social

Online ads range from being annoyingly random to being eerily accurate. Either way it can be difficult to make sense of how certain ads end up in front of you. Real-time bidding might be the culprit 👇

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Elbit - Israel’s largest arms producer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

From Big Oil to Big Algorithm: Public Money in Private Models In our latest piece, we explain what the current ‘govAI’ looks like across the UK, EU and U.S. and the privacy implications this could have for residents of a country. pvcy.org/PJtBty

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Leonardo, Italy’s largest defence and aerospace company. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

NEW: Kenya's Social Health Authority used AI to overcharge the poorest Kenyans while undercharging the richest - exposed by @lighthousereports.com, @africauncensored.bsky.social, and @theguardian.com sha.africauncensored.online

For PI's latest Tech Pill podcast, we dove into data debt spirals in Kenya with Joan, a member of the Kenyan Community Advisory Team helping to steer the Digital Health and Rights Project. privacyinternational.org/video/5765/c...

Football in the UK is more than a game. It’s an important part of community, identity and expression. Our report looks at what happens when facial recognition enters that space. privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...

NEW: From Big Oil to Big Algorithm: Public Money in Private Models In our latest piece, we explain what the current ‘govAI’ looks like across the UK, EU and U.S. and the privacy implications this could have for residents of a country. pvcy.org/PJtBty 👇Thread below!

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Skydio - America’s "leading drone manufacturer”. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

From Big Oil to Big Algorithm: Public Money in Private Models Governments have the public responsibility and public accountability to protect their residents’ data in good faith, but do AI companies providing these services have the same public accountability? 👉https://pvcy.org/PJtBty

It is easy to feel helpless in face of the many companies that profile us online. That’s why we’ve given you some tips for how you could limit the intrusions into your online activity! ⬇️💪

“Having a parallel processing environment where guardrails cease to exist is cheaper, faster, and more effective … but without these, anyone is at the mercy of the guy in front of the screen.” That’s the reported Europol’s “shadow IT system” wearesolomon.com/en/mag/focus...

Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Thales - a prolific seller of surveillance tech. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social

♠ ¿Qué normativas se aplican a los partidos políticos y otros actores políticos durante las elecciones?

Europol has been running a “shadow IT system” for phone records, identity documents, financial and geolocation information - even of people not suspected of a crime. It lacked proper oversight, and had huge security risks www.computerweekly.com/news/3666425...