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Urgent: Stop the new Snooper’s Charter annihilating our rights

Every citizen in the UK under surveillance: this is the government's plan.

The government is ignoring tech industry experts, rights groups - and its own advice - to rush through the Investigatory Powers Bill, a piece of legislation that will violate the rights of everyone in the UK.

North Korea, the surveillance state

The famously secretive and isolated state is severely punishing citizens who try to reach out and connect with the world beyond North Korea.

Phones and computers connecting to the internet and allowing international calls are banned. When people take risks and try to break the censors, the repercussions can be huge.

Mass surveillance by another name

The UK government is basically planning to extend existing mass surveillance of all residents of the UK.

We're not talking targeted, effective surveillance of people who are suspected of wrongdoing - we're talking blanket surveillance of each of us. We will all be guilty until proven innocent.

More than an app: Panic Button, one year on

One year after the launch of our phone app for human rights activists, Tanya blogs on how Panic Button is helping activists take precautions in case of attack and link up with others activists to create networks and stay safe.

The Gaza Platform: seeking justice for war crimes

We’ve launched a new digital mapping tool to help investigate human rights violations during the 2014 Gaza conflict. We’ve built a definitive picture of what happened minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, using forensic architecture, satellite imagery, broadcast news and citizen-generated footage.

CSI: Gaza - Forensic Architects

We've launched an innovative digital tool which maps Israeli attacks during the 50-day Gaza conflict in 2014.

The Gaza platform is a unique database of satellite imagery, broadcast news and citizen-generated footage to track what happened minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, as a way of investigating war crimes.

We need to know why the UK government spied on Amnesty International

At 5pm on the hottest day of the year, an email from a secret court quietly announced that UK intelligence services had unlawfully intercepted and stored our private communications. We had to take the UK government to court to find this out.

Which countries could have access to your data?

We know that countries around the world have secret data-sharing agreements, thanks to Edward Snowden. So which countries could have personal information about you?

Snowden on surveillance, two years on

"I have one regret: I should have come forward sooner." Two years since he blew the whistle on the NSA, Snowden blogs on how governments and activists responded to that information, and why we still need to care about mass surveillance.

Watch Edward Snowden Q&A on surveillance

We spoke to Edward Snowden via video link to Russia. Watch his answers to questions on recent developments in the UK to legalise mass surveillance, and new US laws restricting surveillance. Snowden reveals how he remains positive since 'burning everything down' to blow the whistle on mass human rights abuses.

Mass surveillance

Your government knows a lot about you. It's likely that they are storing your private emails, calls, internet searches, locations, and more. The UK is one of the main culprits.
We have a right to privacy and free speech, which mass surveillance violates. In the wrong hands, our sensitive information can be used against us, and endanger our lives.

Evidence of global opposition to US mass surveillance

Our research shows that around the world, the public don’t want to be spied on by the United States. Yet every day, US government agencies access and store data from our phones, computers and other hardware that lets them know the most intimate details of our lives – no matter who we are. It has to stop.

Five reasons to care about mass surveillance

What do we mean when we talk about mass surveillance? And why should you care about it? Our Security and Human Rights Advisor blogs on her top five reasons to clue up about mass surveillance, and its threat to your human rights.

UK government’s mass spying ruled unlawful

We have won a historic victory against the UK government’s spy agencies, GCHQ, Mi5 and Mi6 over their indiscriminate surveillance practices.

The landmark verdict proves that mass surveillance sharing on such an industrial scale was unlawful, and a violation of our rights to privacy and to free expression.

Meet 'citizen four' and learn why we should fear mass surveillance

In 2013, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with 'citizen four'.

Their mysterious contact turned out to be Edward Snowden, and their meeting created one of the biggest news stories of the century.

The great social media crackdown

'If you want to liberate a country, give them the internet'. Social media has contributed to the success and spread of movements for political and social change since its inception. So it's no surprise that many governments are cracking down on its use.
We look at free speech on the 'interwebs' and how to get around the great firewall of China.

Why we're taking the UK government to court over mass spying

We believe our emails and phone calls with activists around the world have been unlawfully accessed by intelligence services in the UK and USA. Find out how industrial-scale spying by our own governments could be putting human rights activists around the world at risk.

Don't spy on us

'No matter who you are, where you are, and regardless of the device you're reading this on, chances are, you are in some capacity being watched.'

Our Head of Advocacy blogs on the problem with the UK government's attitude to mass surveillance, and how that's led us to join the Don't Spy On Us campaign.

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