Adjusting Edge settings to enhance your online privacy
Tracking prevention. Edge includes a basic tracking protection mechanism to prevent trackers from collecting data about you. To enable it, go to the Tracking prevention pane, and select Balanced protection (Fig. 2). You can also use Strict protection, but …
Mass Surveillance - Privacy International
Apr 1, 2022 · Mass surveillance enables significant power imbalances and hinders people’s autonomy and dignity. It creates an environment of suspicion and threat, which can cause people who are not engaged in any wrongdoing to change their behaviour, including the way they act, speak and communicate, in what is commonly described as …
The UK government's controversial proposal to expand …
In June 2023, the UK government announced its proposal to expand its surveillance powers by, among others, forcing communications operators to undermine encryption or abstain from providing security software updates globally. Building on our response to the government’s plans, this piece explains why what they want to do puts every one of us at risk.
101: SIM Card Registration - Privacy International
Photo credit: warrenski Mandatory SIM card registration eradicates the potential for anonymity of communications, enables location-tracking, and simplifies communications surveillance and interception.
A technical look at Phone Extraction | Privacy International
Oct 14, 2019 · Police officers who operate mobile phone extraction technologies often have little or no forensic training and are increasingly reliant on devices whose capabilities they do not understand, particularly as budgets are cut and the volume of …
How the police can determine your location at a protest
Where is my phone's location data stored? Your phone can be located in two main ways, using GPS or mobile network location: 1. GPS. GPS (that stands for Global Positioning System) uses satellite navigation to locate your phone fairly precisely (within a few metres), and relies on a GPS chip inside your handset.; Depending on the phone you use, your GPS location data might be stored locally and ...
Telegram - App settings/permissions | Privacy International
Jan 7, 2021 · Phone The first time you use Telegram it will ask for permissions to use your phone. This is used for the verification process but shouldn't be used later on. However, if you don't change this permission, Telegram is theoretically able to make phone calls on your behalf.
Change HTTP referer settings: Chrome | Privacy International
The HTTP referrer header can be very revealing in the context of online tracking. Learn how you can change the policy in Chrome to force the browser to include the minimum information in this header or even block it entierely.
Minimum safeguards on intelligence sharing required under international human rights law 04 meaning of “law” implies certain minimum qualitative requirements.
The UK Human Rights Act and the right to privacy
The UK goverment’s Independent Human Rights Act Review has shone the spotlight on the relationship between domestic jurisprudence and the European Court of Human Rights.
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