Privacy International

Privacy International
legal form	Non-profit
founding	1990
founder	Simon Davies
Seat	London
main emphasis	Surveillance , privacy
Action space	international
sales	1,700,000 pounds sterling (2018)
Employees	21 (2018)
Volunteers	14 (2018)
Website	privacyinternational.org

Privacy International (PI) is an international human rights organization founded in 1990 with headquarters in London , England . She describes herself as the guardian of citizens' privacy vis-à-vis the state and business enterprises .

Since 1998, the association has presented the Big Brother Award annually to organizations that have blatantly violated people's privacy.

activities

Privacy Index

Privacy ranking 2006

Privacy ranking 2007

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Since 1997, the organization, in collaboration with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has conducted annual surveys to determine how much privacy nations allow their residents. The study examines all EU countries and 11 other selected countries. The degree of privacy is rated with a numerical value from 1 to a maximum of 5. Germany, France and Austria recorded the greatest decline in 2007.

rank	country	2006	2007
EU countries
1	Greece	3.1	3.1
2	Romania	-	2.9
3	Hungary	3.0	2.9
4th	Slovenia	2.3	2.8
5	Portugal	2.9	2.8
6th	Luxembourg	2.6	2.8
7th	Germany	3.9	2.8
8th	Italy	2.6	2.8
9	Estonia	2.6	2.8
10	Belgium	3.2	2.7
11	Czech Republic	2.5	2.5
12	Finland	2.7	2.5
13	Ireland	2.5	2.5
14th	Malta	2.6	2.4
15th	Poland	2.9	2.3
16	Spain	2.4	2.3
17th	Austria	3.2	2.3
18th	Cyprus	2.9	2.3
19th	Latvia	2.6	2.2
20th	Netherlands	2.3	2.1
21st	Slovakia	2.5	2.1
22nd	Sweden	2.2	2.1
23	Denmark	2.5	2.0
24	Bulgaria	-	2.0
25th	Lithuania	2.5	2.0
26th	France	2.9	1.9
27	United Kingdom	1.5	1.4
	ø EU	2.7	2.4
International
1	Canada	3.6	2.9
2	Argentina	3.0	2.8
3	Iceland	-	2.7
4th	Switzerland	-	2.4
5	New Zealand	2.5	2.3
6th	South Africa	-	2.3
7th	Japan	-	2.2
8th	Australia	2.4	2.2
9	Israel	2.2	2.2
10	Brazil	-	2.1
11	Norway	-	2.1
12	India	-	1.9
13	Philippines	1.9	1.8
14th	United States	2.0	1.5
15th	Thailand	1.9	1.5
16	Taiwan	-	1.5
17th	Singapore	1.4	1.4
18th	Russia	1.4	1.3
19th	People's Republic of China	1.3	1.3
20th	Malaysia	1.3	1.3

rating

4.1-5.0	Consistent defense of human rights
3.6-4.0	Effective protections and guarantees
3.1-3.5	Adequate guarantees against abuse
2.6-3.0	Some collateral, but weakened protection
2.1-2.5	Systematic failure of protective measures
1.6-2.0	Extensive surveillance company
1.1-1.5	Endemic surveillance society

Data trading

In November 2018, Privacy International filed a complaint against some data dealers on the basis of the General Data Protection Regulation . The appeal is directed against two common data distributor ( Acxiom and Oracle ) and five data distributors operating in the fields of advertising and credit scoring (the advertising technology company Criteo , Quantcast and tapad and the credit bureaus Equifax and Experian ).

financing

Privacy International is supported and funded by various foundations, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations. You get, for example, by the Soros Foundation , the American Civil Liberties Union , the Electronic Privacy Information Center , the Fund for Constitutional Government , the Stern Foundation , the Privacy Foundation , the German Marshall Fund and the University of New South Wales funds or are supported to a lesser extent by private donations.

See also

• Freedom House

Web links

• Privacy International website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Electronic epic.org - Privacy Information Center
2. ↑ Ingo Dachwitz: Fight the data dealers: Privacy International files complaints. In: netzpolitik.org. November 8, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .