Digital RightsPrivacy Tracker: Contact Tracing & Digital Health Certificate Apps
This live tracker documents new initiatives introduced in response to the pandemic that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
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Surveillance
Governments and institutions are adopting increasingly pervasive and sophisticated digital surveillance technologies to monitor the general populace. Many of these technologies are used without oversight, and pose a serious threat to citizens’ rights to privacy.
In these investigations, we aim to draw attention to the disproportionate use of surveillance technologies worldwide, and the companies behind them.
In these investigations, we aim to draw attention to the disproportionate use of surveillance technologies worldwide, and the companies behind them.
Digital RightsEmployee Monitoring Software Demand up 60% since 2019As millions of people shifted to home working, employers around the world have turned to employee surveillance software to track their employees' productivity.
Digital RightsHikvision and Dahua Surveillance Cameras: Global LocationsWe identified and mapped 6.3 million surveillance camera networks globally that use hardware from controversial Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua.
Digital RightsReport: 70% of UK Councils Use Chinese Video Surveillance TechWe sent Freedom of Information requests to 52 UK local councils. Nearly two thirds of respondents said they owned technology made by controversial Chinese firm Hikvision.
Digital RightsU.S. Firms Providing Web Hosting & Other Core Website Support to Blacklisted Surveillance CompaniesAmazon and Microsoft provide core web services for almost half the Chinese surveillance companies on the US Department Of Commerce blacklist