BBC – Instagram removes message encryption
May 8, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
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The Guardian – Innocent people are being wrongly placed on facial recognition watchlists
May 3, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Spectator – A social media ban for kids puts all our privacy at risk
April 27, 2026 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
Daily Mail – AI facial recognition wrongly flags a software engineer and midwife as criminals
April 26, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
GB News – Man hauled to court after facial recognition mistook him for someone else
April 22, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Council plans to wire AI surveillance into 500 CCTV cameras
April 21, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Apple’s New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK
April 9, 2026 / Blog FreeSpeech
Big Brother Watch comments on Apple forcing iPhone users to prove their age or lose internet access
March 25, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Releases
BBC – UK iPhone users must now prove age or lose full internet access
March 25, 2026 / Press Coverage
BBC – Essex Police to resume deploying facial recognition following bias risks
March 20, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Norwich Evening News – Facial recognition to be used in Norwich for the first time
March 17, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Sun – Campaigners say shops’ use of facial recognition is “disproportionate”
March 14, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
March 11, 2026 / digitalid Press Coverage
Financial Times – Ex-police officer wrongly flagged as a shoplifter in shop using facial recognition
March 5, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
March 2, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
BBC – Police to scan football fans’ faces in Liverpool using live facial recognition
February 23, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Live facial recognition trialled at London railway station
February 11, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC- Man wrongly kicked out of Sainsbury’s shop using facial recognition
February 5, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – High Court hears the challenge to police use of live facial recognition
January 27, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – “Overwhelming” case that digital IDs should be scrapped, say campaigners
January 14, 2026 / digitalid Press Coverage
GB News – Live facial recognition plans could turn London into “open prison”
January 8, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Grocer – Retailers must respect rights of shoppers with use of facial recognition surveillance
January 8, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Innocent shoppers are being WRONGLY blacklisted by shops using facial recognition
January 5, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Starmer under pressure to ditch digital ID as opposition rises
January 1, 2026 / digitalid Press Coverage
The National – Scottish police consider adopting “Orwellian” facial recognition technology
December 14, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – Digital billboards the “height of surveillance capitalism”
December 9, 2025 / Press Coverage
LBC – Ministers want a digital ID. They still can’t say what it will actually do
December 8, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The Metro – Campaigners urge parliament to “listen to the people” on digital IDs
December 8, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Times – Mass expansion of facial recognition will “perpetuate existing biases”
December 4, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Facial recognition surveillance “out of control”
December 4, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – A mandatory digital ID could create a permissions-based society, MPs hear
December 1, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Councils should not use drones to spy on residents, campaigners warn
November 29, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – Welsh man falsely accused of theft by a shop using facial recognition
November 19, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Mirror – “no one really believes” digital ID is about immigration, campaigners warn
November 18, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Daily Mail – British police have made CHILLING arrests over social media posts, figures reveals
November 15, 2025 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
BBC – Live facial recognition to be deployed in Leeds for the first time
November 11, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – The Met Police’s use of live facial recognition branded “chilling” by campaigners
October 31, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Big Brother Watch responds to the Metropolitan Police’s 2025 live facial recognition report
October 31, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Yahoo! News – UK shops are using “Orwellian” facial recognition
October 24, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Metro – Digital ID plans worry privacy rights campaigners
October 24, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
BBC – Debate on live facial recognition
October 24, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Starmer’s digital ID plans raise surveillance concerns
October 23, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Labour is “backtracking on the promise” to use non-digital ID, campaigners say
October 22, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Independent – Charities warn vulnerable people at risk from government bank spying powers
October 16, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Daily Mail – “Sinister” plans to extend digital ID to 13 year olds
October 9, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
City A.M. – What are the civil liberties implications of a digital ID?
October 1, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
BBC – Police unit continues recording identities of FOI requests, abandoning transparency reforms
October 1, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Times – Live facial recognition could enable “Orwellian street surveillance”, campaigners say
September 29, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The National – Digital ID system is a serious threat to civil liberties
September 28, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The Guardian – Keir Starmer announces plans for a mandatory digital ID
September 26, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Rights groups raise privacy concerns in a letter to Starmer about digital ID
September 26, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
CapX – Labour’s ‘Britcard’ will leave us less free – and less British
September 26, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
September 25, 2025 / digitalid Press Releases
Daily Mail – Digital ID is a step towards “checkpoint Britain”
September 24, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’
September 23, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
September 21, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
BBC – Council facial recognition plans mark “unprecedented level of mass surveillance”
September 18, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
New York Times – Live facial recognition expanding at an unprecedented scale in the UK
September 17, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Islington Tribune – Police breach of council ruling on facial recognition “alarming”
September 12, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Biometric Update – New report on digital ID warns about a ‘checkpoint Britain’
September 11, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Times – Digital ID scheme would threaten privacy rights
September 10, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
Nation Cymru – Shoppers turned into “walking barcodes” by supermarket surveillance
September 5, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Rolling Stone – UK arrests for online speech “disturbing and disproportionate”
September 3, 2025 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
Independent – Keir Starmer on the verge of introducing digital ID cards for all
September 3, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
September 2, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – Sainsbury’s to start spying on customers using live facial recognition
September 2, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Critic – The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act
August 29, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
The National – Fourteen rights groups urge Police Scotland to abandon facial recognition plans
August 26, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – The Met’s use of facial recognition is unlawful, regulator says
August 20, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – “No legislation governing live facial recognition” privacy rights group warns
August 19, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
August 19, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – Wrongly accused of being a fraudster at a shop using facial recognition
August 18, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Register – Minority Report-style policing tool “deeply chilling”, campaigners say
August 16, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Don’t use facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival, rights groups tell police
August 16, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Government announced unprecedented facial recognition expansion
August 13, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Censor lawful content or pay severe fines, tech companies told
August 9, 2025 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
UnHerd – Big Tech could be UK’s last hope against Online Safety Act
August 9, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Police searching passport photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition
August 7, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Conservative politicians demand investigation into Government spy unit
August 6, 2025 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
BBC – Anti-knife crime activist misidentified by facial recognition
August 6, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Standard – Think digital IDs seem harmless? This is why you’re wrong
August 5, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The i Paper – New “error-riddled” AI tool to be used by the Home Office
August 5, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Big Brother concerns over new online safety laws
August 4, 2025 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
LabourList – ‘Labour can’t ignore the Online Safety Act’s harms ‒ it must act to fix them’
August 2, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
August 1, 2025 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
Metro – Met Police to double facial recognition deployments despite privacy concerns
July 31, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Sky News – Campaigners warn new age checking rules come at the cost to freedoms
July 29, 2025 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage
Independent – New ‘bank spying’ bill is “unprecedented”, campaigners say
July 29, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Daily Mail – The Online Safety Act forces the public to undergo “intrusive” age checks
July 28, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Police unit to monitor social media posts
July 26, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – Met Police to scan everyone’s faces at Notting Hill Carnival
July 18, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Prospect – Civil liberties campaigner slams digital ID proposal
July 12, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
BBC – Campaigners say fixed facial recognition cameras are “dystopian”
July 12, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Grocer – Shoppers blacklisted by Big Brother supermarkets
July 10, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Police use of live facial recognition has seen an “alarming escalation”, campaigners say
July 4, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
ITV News – Manchester woman falsely placed on a facial recognition watchlist calls for ban
July 2, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Democracy for Sale – UK police forces ordered to stay quiet on Palantir contracts
June 26, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Register – Iceland’s facial recognition trial “disproportionate and chilling”
June 26, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
STV News – Police Scotland should not introduce live facial recognition, campaigners warn
June 25, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Grocer – Iceland trials intrusive facial recognition technology
June 24, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
City AM – Beware BritCard. Digital ID will turn Britain into a papers, please society
June 24, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
Big Issue – New data law is a “weakening of our rights”, campaigners say
June 24, 2025 / Press Coverage
June 23, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Civil servants to be handed powers to snoop on bank accounts
June 16, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
BBC – Woman falsely accused of theft in a Home Bargains store using facial recognition
June 14, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
June 9, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Big Brother Watch Urges Government to Reject New Digital ID Plan
June 6, 2025 / digitalid Press Releases
The Grocer – Legal complaint filed against ASDA by privacy rights group
May 28, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
May 24, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – Essex Police did not conduct “detailed” testing of facial recognition
May 23, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – Experts say mass bank spying powers target the poor
May 21, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Washington Post – Mass facial recognition operation paused in US city
May 19, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
City AM – Labour’s digital ID by the backdoor will be a honey pot for hackers
May 7, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
Yahoo! News – MPs tear into the Government’s mass bank spying bill
April 30, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Novara Media – Labour’s mass bank spying bill treats benefit recipients as “suspects by default”
April 24, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Grocer – Asda hit by over 5,400 complaints against facial recognition trial
April 23, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
April 17, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
BBC – Online social platform Discord is testing facial scanning tech to verify age
April 17, 2025 / Press Coverage
Metro – Microsoft tool taking constant screenshots a “threat to privacy”
April 16, 2025 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Scotland’s new digital identity system could “disadvantage millions”
April 7, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Guardian – Privacy rights groups brand new data laws as “Henry VIII powers”
April 7, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – UK Court rejects Home Office bid to hear Apple’s encryption case in secret
April 7, 2025 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Digital ID risks turning Scotland into a database state
April 5, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
The Times – Police arrests for online speech a threat to free speech, campaigners warn
April 4, 2025 / Press Coverage
ITV News – Asda faces public backlash against facial recognition trial
April 4, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – Apple’s British customers’ privacy at ‘most risk’, Lords warn
April 1, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Police forces are conducting facial recognition searches every two minutes
April 1, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Times – The Met to install permanent live facial recognition cameras
March 24, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC News – Police advised to hide information about facial recognition use
March 18, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC News – Apple’s legal challenge must be open to public urge privacy groups
March 13, 2025 / Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – WhatsApp or Signal could be next if Apple loses encryption Tribunal case
March 5, 2025 / Press Coverage
March 4, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Driving licence photos could be used by police for facial recognition searches
February 27, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
February 22, 2025 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Times – Labour’s bank spying plans will create a “two-tier society”
February 20, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Cardiff city centre transformed into “an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance”
February 19, 2025 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Politics Home – Labour’s plans for digital ID cards pose a risk to marginalised groups
February 18, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Big Issue – Unreliable AI usage by DWP risks vulnerable people being treated as “guinea pigs”
February 17, 2025 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – US lawmakers challenge Government order to Apple as “foreign cyberattack”
February 13, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – UK government orders Apple to comply with “unprecedented attack on privacy rights”
February 7, 2025 / Press Coverage
Express – Over 220,000 people oppose proposed bank spying powers
February 3, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Labour’s double standards on welfare surveillance exposed
February 3, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
City AM: Notebook – Digital IDs and biometric data: Welcome to Labour’s tech dystopia
January 27, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
Big Issue – The Government’s proposals for mass bank spying are “an assault” on welfare
January 23, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
BBC – Campaigners call on the Government to drop mass bank spying plans
January 22, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Mail Online – Campaigns slam Government plans to create an “all-encompassing” digital ID wallet
January 22, 2025 / digitalid Press Coverage
LBC – Mass bank spying powers could “create an unprecedented intrusion”
January 21, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The i Paper – Campaigners slam police plans to use odour & gait tracking tech
January 18, 2025 / Press Coverage
BBC – You will need to prove your age to access certain websites from July
January 16, 2025 / Press Coverage
Big Issue – DWP’s bank account spying plan is an attack on the poor. It must be scrapped in 2025
January 1, 2025 / BankSpying Press Coverage
BBC – Welsh police forces introduce intrusive facial recognition app
December 13, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
December 8, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
December 5, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – £20,000,000 tender for UK-wide facial recognition technology has been uncovered
November 28, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
UnHerd – Britain Academic’s “shocking” collaboration with the CCP on surveillance technologies
November 28, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Police used facial recognition during the summer riots
November 23, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
November 18, 2024 / Press Coverage
The Mirror – MPs debate police use of facial recognition for the first time
November 14, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Privacy under threat as ULEZ-style cameras expand across UK
November 2, 2024 / Press Coverage
GBN – 74% of the public say no to the DWP being able to take money out of our bank accounts
October 23, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Telegraph – DWP could forcibly take money out of benefits recipients’ bank accounts
October 19, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Forbes – A UK CBDC poses serious privacy risks
October 13, 2024 / cbdc Press Coverage
Tortoise – Campaigners slam the Met Police’s use of facial recognition as “intrusive”
October 10, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Times – Snooping bosses raise workplace stress and lower productivity
October 9, 2024 / EmployeeSnooping Press Coverage
October 7, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Times – Meta ‘smart’ glasses tweaked with facial recognition can identity strangers
October 4, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Financial Times – Met police use of live facial recognition skyrockets
October 3, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – Campaigners write to Secretary of State DWP to stop bank spying
October 3, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Scotsman – Campaigners urge police to drop facial recognition plans
September 29, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – Keir Starmer plans to reintroduce bank spying powers
September 24, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Metro – Workers are being subjected to intrusive surveillance
September 23, 2024 / EmployeeSnooping Press Coverage
The Times – Campaigners slam Police Scotland’s plans to expand use of facial recognition
September 23, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Private Wires – These companies are profiting off of censoring speech online
September 17, 2024 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Tesco CEO wants to urge shoppers to stop buying ‘unhealthy’ items
September 17, 2024 / Press Coverage
BBC – Hampshire Police trialling “dangerously authoritarian” facial recognition
September 12, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Police called on to record more Non-Hate Crime Incidents
August 25, 2024 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Nearly half a billion ANPR images held by Police Scotland
August 17, 2024 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facial recognition fears loom over Police Scotland’s new tech
August 14, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
August 14, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Censorial Counter Disinformation Unit spying on speech online during riots
August 7, 2024 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Guardian – Campaigners slam Keir Starmer’s plan for expanding the use of facial recognition
August 2, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facial recognition expansion plans are “alarming” for democracy
August 2, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
CAPX – Starmer reveals his authoritarian streak
August 2, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
July 27, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Essex school slammed for the use of facial recognition
July 24, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Times – Digital ID verification could soon become the norm
July 23, 2024 / digitalid Press Coverage
Biometric Update – Islington is the third borough to reject the Met’s use of live facial recognition
July 18, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
City A.M. – The Notebook: Freedom of speech at risk under Labour’s online safety plans
July 11, 2024 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – DWP algorithm mistakenly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error
June 23, 2024 / Press Coverage Welfare Surveillance
The Spectator – What’s behind the rise in bodycams in other industries?
June 20, 2024 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – Scotland poised to introduce live facial recognition technology
June 20, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Mail Online – AI police are across Britain’s streets
June 18, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Wired – UK train stations trialled Amazon emotion detection that could feed you adverts
June 18, 2024 / Press Coverage
City A.M. – The Notebook: The Orwellian use of facial recognition
June 13, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Big Issue – Government’s bank spying plans binned
June 13, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Argus – Brighton and Hove Buses are secretly recording drivers and passengers
June 1, 2024 / EmployeeSnooping Press Coverage
Biometric Update – Legal action launched against police and shops’ use of facial recognition
May 27, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facial recognition misidentifies woman as a shoplifter
May 26, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Victims of facial recognition misidentification
May 26, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
i – ICO urged to investigate Met Police’s “likely unlawful” use of private facial recognition tool
May 20, 2024 / Press Coverage
Big Issue – More than a quarter of a million people demand Government to drop bank spying powers
May 14, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Mail Online – Government’s mass bank spying powers “an affront to privacy”
May 13, 2024 / Press Coverage
Novara Media – Anti-monarchy opinions included in Government “misinformation reports”
May 13, 2024 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
City A.M. – The Notebook: Facial recognition CCTV is Orwellian. But it also doesn’t work
May 13, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
i – Met police secretly accessed facial recognition ‘search engine’ over 2000 times
May 6, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Mail Online – Over half of British voters oppose the Government’s bank spying powers
May 4, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – DWP’s bank spying powers will affect pensioners, landlords and carers
May 2, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
City A.M. – Nearly 200,000 people have signed petition to stop bank spying powers
May 2, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Computer Weekly – MPs and peers sign joint letter against bank snooping powers
May 1, 2024 / Press Coverage
April 29, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Big Issue – New bank spying powers could risk repeating Horizon
April 22, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Times – Government’s new bank spying powers “breach privacy rights” warn lawyers
April 17, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
UnHerd – MPs call for an independent review of the Counter Disinformation Unit
April 15, 2024 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
Politico – Police use of live facial recognition surveillance is “deeply concerning”
April 15, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Custody images of innocent people held by Police Scotland
April 9, 2024 / Press Coverage
The Times – Home Office and police share plans to announce a ‘roadmap’ for facial recognition
April 5, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Police recording non crime hate incidents despite laws
April 1, 2024 / Press Coverage
BBC – Met Police using “Orwellian” facial recognition surveillance in south London
March 25, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
City A.M. – The Notebook: How bank spying powers are being snuck into government bills
March 25, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Times – Indoor cameras banned in Airbnbs but privacy concerns remain
March 24, 2024 / Press Coverage
Politico – New UK bill could force banks to spy on all of its customers
March 12, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
The Guardian – 40+ organisations call on the Government to drop mass bank spying powers
March 4, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
i – New voice call feature on X could reveal your location to callers
March 4, 2024 / Press Coverage
SWLondoner – Campaigners concerned about facial recognition vans in Wandsworth
March 1, 2024 / Press Coverage
UnHerd – New app uses AI to hunt down cheating spouses
February 26, 2024 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Serco banned from using facial recognition to track their staff
February 23, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Cointelegraph – Campaigners say there are “serious privacy concerns” about a digital pound
February 14, 2024 / cbdc Press Coverage
BBC – Lincolnshire police are calling to expand the use of facial recognition
February 9, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Wired – London Underground uses AI to monitor commuters’ behaviour in a new trail
February 8, 2024 / Press Coverage
Schoolsweek – Schools install sensors to monitor students in toilets
February 5, 2024 / Press Coverage
BBC – Apple “deeply concerned” over proposed new powers within the Snoopers Charter
January 29, 2024 / Press Coverage
Independent – No clear legal grounds, peers say about intrusive facial recognition tech
January 27, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Observer – Facial recognition surveillance targeted at supermarkets in Britain’s poor areas
January 27, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Big Issue – Over 30,000 people call on the Government to axe bank spying powers
January 26, 2024 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Tony Blair calls on NHS to sell off patient data for AI development
January 25, 2024 / Press Coverage
January 5, 2024 / FacialRec Press Coverage
PoliticsHome – Privacy campaigners warn a UK CBDC could spell the end of privacy
November 29, 2023 / cbdc Press Coverage
City A.M. – Government is ‘sneaking in’ new bank surveillance powers
November 24, 2023 / BankSpying Press Coverage
Wired – Facial recognition is being used by online sleuths on unidentified bodies
November 15, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage Uncategorised
Wired – Police use of “highly intrusive” facial recognition tech sweeping the UK
November 9, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Metro – Government plans to monitor bank accounts of Britons receiving benefits
November 6, 2023 / BankSpying Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Two-thirds of people on facial recognition watchlist were not wanted for arrest
October 28, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Government apologises after “counter disinformation” unit spread misinformation
October 27, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
Evening Standard – Met police use facial recognition surveillance on football fans
October 27, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – 65 parliamentarians have joined a call to stop facial recognition
October 7, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Argus – Sussex Police using drones to monitor students at night
September 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
September 27, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
i News – Psychiatric wards using 24-hour video surveillance
September 26, 2023 / Press Coverage
i News – Spike in the use of retrospective facial recognition sparks privacy concerns
September 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – MPs call on the Government to suspend the Counter “Disinformation” Unit
September 11, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Guardian – Campaigners slam Met chief’s enthusiasm for facial recognition
September 11, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Sky News – Home Office pushes for expanded police use of facial recognition
September 5, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Guardian – The Government is blocking information about bias in the welfare system
September 3, 2023 / Press Coverage
September 2, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
BBC – Campaigners say facial recognition is “not an efficient crime fighting tool”
August 1, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
Observer – Home Office officials chalked up secret plans to expand facial recognition use in shops
July 30, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
PR Week – Spy agencies teamed up with the UK Government’s Counter “Disinformation” Unit
July 27, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Telegraph – 50,000 people respond to the Government consultation on a UK CBDC
July 3, 2023 / cbdc Press Coverage
The New York Times – Orwellian facial recognition technology being used across stores in the UK
June 28, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
June 19, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Telegraph – The Gov’t made ‘hourly contact’ with social media firms
June 13, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
June 10, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Secretive Government units targeted lockdown critics
June 2, 2023 / MiniTruth Press Coverage
The Economist – the Public Order Act is authoritarian & “inherently censorious”
May 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
May 16, 2023 / FacialRec Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Britain is sleepwalking into a Beijing-style surveillance nightmare
May 9, 2023 / FacialRec Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
May 1, 2023 / Press Coverage
April 24, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Campaigners slam use of ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition tech in policing
April 5, 2023 / Press Coverage
iNews – Tesco’s Clubcard scheme asks shoppers to trade personal data for discounts
March 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Sadiq Khan is giving Met Police access to ANPR cameras
March 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Tesco commits to removing rights-abusing CCTV cameras from all stores
March 20, 2023 / Hikvision Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Sports Direct likely used facial recognition on millions of shoppers’ faces
March 12, 2023 / Press Coverage
TechMonitor – Data Protection Bill: A “bonfire of safeguards” campaigners say
March 9, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Hikvision CCTV cameras discovered at royal Sandringham estate & five Government sites
March 4, 2023 / Hikvision Press Coverage
Mail Online – Chinese state-owned surveillance tech found being used on British military sites
February 25, 2023 / Press Coverage
Express – No surprise Tony Blair still envisages such an undemocratic ID system
February 22, 2023 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Daily Mail – UK finance giants invest millions in CCP-owned surveillance company
February 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
BBC Wales – Welsh police forces freeze the purchase of Hikvision cameras
February 16, 2023 / Hikvision Press Coverage
TalkTV – The UK digital pound could be the most serious incursion on the public’s privacy
February 7, 2023 / cbdc Press Coverage TV Radio
iNews – Supermarkets use loyalty card data to surveil customers
February 4, 2023 / Press Coverage
February 3, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – 77th Brigade spied on lockdown critics
January 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
Context by Reuters – The threat to privacy posed by online age verification laws
January 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
Coda Story – Southern Co-op scans the faces of shoppers, holding their biometric data for years
January 11, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Times – 4,000 Airbnb property owners install intrusive noise monitoring devices
December 29, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Times – Hikvision given privileged access to UK business crime data
December 13, 2022 / Hikvision Press Coverage
The Times – Are body cameras the answer to protecting nurses against assault?
December 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Met police unlawfully spied on children at London climate strike
December 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
December 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Government ceases to install Hikvision cameras
November 24, 2022 / Hikvision Press Coverage
Biometric Update: legal opinion suggests thermal surveillance is highly likely to be unlawful
November 22, 2022 / Press Coverage
November 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Channel 4 – Human rights abusing surveillance tech used by at least 11 police forces in the UK
November 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
BBC – Pimeyes, a facial “search engine” could be used by stalkers
November 8, 2022 / Press Coverage
Edinburgh Live – Edinburgh City Council commits to removing human rights abusing CCTV cameras
November 2, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Civil liberties organisations demand scrapping the Public Order Bill
November 1, 2022 / Press Coverage
Vice – Data Brokers Are Tracking Millions of UK Phones To Place Hyper-Personalised Billboard Ads
October 14, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Republican demonstrators arrested at recent public events
September 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Fourteen groups call on new Met Police chief to end facial recognition
September 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Lengthy list of demands given to new Home Secretary, Suella Braverman
September 6, 2022 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Are we sleepwalking into Big Brother Britain?
September 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
August 18, 2022 / Press Coverage
Scottish Daily Express – Police Scotland looking into ‘Big Brother’ face scan cameras
August 9, 2022 / Press Coverage
Gizmodo – Facial recognition watches to be used to surveil convicted migrants
August 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
July 26, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Non-crime hate incident reporting risks turning police into Big Brother
July 22, 2022 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
July 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
July 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
Evening Standard – MET police deploy Live Facial Recognition systems in Oxford Circus
July 15, 2022 / Press Coverage
BBC – 67 MPs and Lords call for a nationwide ban on Hikvision and Dahua surveillance technology
July 4, 2022 / Hikvision Press Coverage
The Telegraph – DWP announces decision to remove Hikvision cameras
June 26, 2022 / Hikvision Press Coverage
AP News – UK govt orders extradition of Julian Assange
June 17, 2022 / Press Coverage
Our statement on the Assange extradition
June 17, 2022 / Press Coverage Press Releases
UnHerd – ‘Health Misinformation’: the latest addition to the Online Safety Bill
June 16, 2022 / Blog Press Coverage
Independent – Policing Bill will increase violence against women warn campaigners
June 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – How Beijing’s surveillance power crept onto UK streets
May 30, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Economist – The Online Safety Bill could change the internet as we know it
May 25, 2022 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition firm Clearview AI fined £7.5M
May 23, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Amazon’s AI cameras ‘excessive, intrusive and creepy’
May 22, 2022 / Press Coverage
City A.M. – Clearview AI forced to restrict sales of facial recognition
May 16, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Big B̷r̷o̷t̷h̷e̷r̷ Person is amending your speech
April 23, 2022 / Press Coverage
IPVM – Big Brother Watch protests outside Hikvision convention
April 13, 2022 / Hikvision Press Coverage
Politico – Inside Britain’s (opaque) Counter Disinformation Unit
April 4, 2022 / Press Coverage
Guido Fawkes – Cressida Dick called out on faulty Live Facial Recognition deployment
March 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
March 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
UnHerd – UK Government takes a leaf out of Trudeau’s book when it comes to policing protests
February 28, 2022 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
The Guardian – Anonymous users could face limited communications on social media
February 25, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Age-gating the internet ‘a privacy minefield’, campaigners say
February 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Times – CCTV implicated in human rights abuses being used across the UK public sector
February 7, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – MPs sign cross-party pledge demanding review of Covid fines
February 2, 2022 / Press Coverage
Sky News – Covid pass Legal challenge launched against Welsh Government
January 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
IPVM – Co-op supermarkets using facial recognition and chinese state-funded technology
January 17, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – Could the Policing Bill suppress eco protesters?
January 16, 2022 / Press Coverage
HR World – IKEA’s no vaccine, no sick pay policy could prove to be divisive
January 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – A third of of Covid prosecutions were unlawful, official review finds
December 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
December 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Labour urged to vote down ‘draconian’ Policing Bill amendments
December 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Southern Co-op expands use of ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition technology
December 3, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Twitter to censor ‘Media of Private Individuals’ without their permission
November 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – Amendments to the Government’s Policing Bill make ‘locking on’ a crime
November 29, 2021 / Press Coverage
TalkRadio – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales
November 11, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Guardian – Police consider use of drones that film from 1,500ft
October 29, 2021 / Press Press Coverage
The Times – BP used private intelligence service to spy on peaceful climate campaigner
October 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
New Statesman – Are anonymous social media accounts to blame for online hate?
October 21, 2021 / Press Coverage
FT – UK school canteens introduce facial recognition cameras
October 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
Spectator – Why is YouTube silencing David Davis?
October 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – New app allows women to be monitored by CCTV on walk home
October 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Scottish Sun – Scottish Government accused of becoming “factory for authoritarian Covid rules”
September 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
WIRED – Met Police splashing out on facial recognition tech
September 28, 2021 / Press Coverage
Guardian – NHS app using undisclosed companies to inspect facial data
September 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
September 16, 2021 / Press Coverage
PoliticsHome – Labour and Conservatives face backlash over Covid pass plans
September 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – NHS app storing facial verification data with private firm iProov
September 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
Morning Star – Government increasingly using sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour (study)
September 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – Government’s Online Safety Bill will give tech firms ‘right to spy on us’
September 5, 2021 / Press Coverage
August 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Police guidance on facial recognition criticised by rights groups
August 17, 2021 / Press Coverage
i News – UK police forces experimenting with retrospective facial recognition technology
August 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Secretive algorithms screening millions of welfare claimants
July 20, 2021 / Press Coverage Welfare Surveillance
New Statesman – How surveillance within the welfare system is affecting Britain’s poorest people
July 20, 2021 / Press Coverage Welfare Surveillance
The Telegraph – Vaccine passport contractor says they could be ‘redeployed’ as national ID card
July 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
Politico – Online Safety Bill raises free speech concerns say civil liberties NGOs
June 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – Protest restrictions in Policing Bill breach human rights
June 22, 2021 / Press Coverage
i News – Gov’t accused of introducing national ID cards via ‘backdoor’ after Covid Pass contract
June 21, 2021 / Press Coverage
Morning Star – Met Police ‘misrepresented Covid rules’ against protesters
June 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Deliveroo drivers can be trained to detect crimes
June 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
Evening Standard – “I will not let police be subjected to trial by social media” says Priti Patel
June 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – NHS data grab plans scrapped after widespread backlash over privacy concerns
June 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
TRIGGERnometry – Your Government is Spying on You
June 2, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse
May 28, 2021 / Press Coverage
LBC – Stop and search debate reignited following the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death
May 25, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – GCHQ’s bulk interception was unlawful ECHR rules
May 25, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Millions of phones tracked to analyse behavioural change after vaccination
May 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
Flagging of ‘high-risk’ FOI requests to Met Police creates “chilling affect”
May 18, 2021 / Press Coverage
talkRADIO – Online Safety Bill presents unprecedented threat to free speech
May 13, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio Uncategorised
Daily Mail – Government’s Online Safety Bill could create ‘state-backed censorship’
May 12, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Lifting of ‘hug’ ban underlines confusion over Covid restrictions
May 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
Politico – Upcoming Online Safety Bill sparks free speech concern from MPs
April 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
talkRADIO – Covid passes + facial recognition = ID cards on steroids
April 21, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
New Statesman – Interview with Silkie Carlo on how Covid-19 has accelerated the surveillance state
April 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
Telegraph – Drinkers will have to prove they have registered with Test and Trace as pubs reopen
April 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – Children warned past Tweets could harm their future
April 5, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Covid certificates planned as early December leaked documents reveal
April 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Covid pass could be used by grandparents to screen birthday party guests
April 3, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC News – More than 70 MPs oppose “divisive” Covid passports
April 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – You can travel to your second home at Easter but the goverment warns against it
March 23, 2021 / Press Coverage
MPs call for protest exemption to lockdown law
March 20, 2021 / Press Coverage
Left Foot Forward – The Coronavirus Act’s threat to Civil Liberties
March 16, 2021 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – Privacy campaigners voice opposition to Home Office tests on tracking browsing history
March 12, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
iNews – Free speech NGOs pen letter to government opposing the Online Harms Bill
March 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – ‘Till-less’ Amazon Fresh store opens in London
March 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Times – Hundreds of unlawful lockdown prosecutions may be missed from review
March 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
Reuters – Vaccine passports: Are they worth the discrimination and privacy concerns?
March 1, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Vaccine certifications currently being considered by UK Parliament
February 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
Guardian – Vaccine passports and tests to aid reopening of UK economy
February 22, 2021 / Press Coverage
iNews – Vaccine passports raising privacy and discrimination concerns
February 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – ‘VACCINE PASSPORTS UNDERMINE OUR VALUES’
February 19, 2021 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Reuters – Half of London councils using Uighur-linked surveillance systems
February 18, 2021 / Press Coverage
DAILY MAIL – 13,000 FACE SCANS LEAD TO JUST ONE ARREST BY MET POLICE
February 12, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – £10,000 fines for breaking lockdown restrictions criticised by civil liberites groups
February 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facebook’s Covid ‘misinformation’ causes freedom of speech concern
February 9, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Amazon place AI cameras monitoring drivers inside vans
February 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Sociable – WHO discourage vaccine passports for international travel
January 20, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Vaccine Passports: A Potential Threat to Privacy?
January 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
YorkMix – North Yorkshire Police receive criticism over Covid policing
January 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Portsmouth News – Facewatch tech used to catch potential shoplifters in 18 Portsmouth stores
January 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Sun – Drones used to survey Hampshire citizens breaking covid regulations
January 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
Evening Express – Recent appeal to NPCC over ableism towards those with mask exemptions
January 13, 2021 / Press Coverage
Derby Telegraph – Derbyshire Police criticised for use of drones to survey citizens
January 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Scottish Sun – SQA consider using facial recognition to deter students from cheating
January 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – The complex task of disputing Covid fines
January 11, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
Daily Mail – Co-op spying and bias in AI
January 9, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facial recognition “one of the most serious threats to civil liberties of recent years”
January 7, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Amazon, Home Security, and Surveillance of Day to Day Life
January 6, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Sun – Surveillance culture and cyber-harassment
January 5, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC — YouTube has removed TalkRadio’s entire channel
January 5, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Star — Vaccine passports would be irresponsible and discriminatory
December 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
December 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times — Defend Media Freedom: Julian Assange on #HumanRightsDay
December 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “We’re now living in a growing surveillance state and a civil liberties landslide”
December 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
Sky News — We will not accept a health apartheid
December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC debate on mass CCTV and the Surveillance State
December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
November 28, 2020 / Press Coverage
November 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
Big Brother Watch signed a joint civil society statement in defence of end to end encryption
November 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
openDemocracy — “a shameful reflection on the government’s attitude towards transparency”
November 23, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “The laws governing lockdowns are constantly changing, complex and poorly drafted.”
November 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
Mirror — DWP published thousands of sick and disabled people’s national insurance numbers online
November 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “ANPR remains dangerously unregulated and deserves serious parliamentary attention”
November 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
Metro — Brent Council backs down ‘mission creep’
November 9, 2020 / Press Coverage
November 9, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Metro — “Spying on their residents is the worst possible approach local authorities could take”
October 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
October 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
October 19, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “Police access to self-isoaltion data is as counter-productive as it is chilling.”
October 17, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC — “It’s clear that Parliament needs to legislate to control police use of drone surveillance”
October 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
October 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — Test and Trace has become the vehicle for huge privacy violations
October 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
Academy of Ideas — Civil Liberties in times of crisis [video]
October 6, 2020 / Press Coverage
October 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Sun — “One rule for them and a trillion rules for us”
September 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Sun — One rule for them, a trillion rules for the rest of us.
September 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
Sky News — “Government cannot and should not legislate every part of our lives”
September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Workplace Surveillance: “It’s not consent if you can’t choose”
September 27, 2020 / EmployeeSnooping Press Coverage
September 24, 2020 / Press Coverage
DIGIT — “An astoundingly excessive law that poses a serious risk to privacy and data rights”
September 21, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 19, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
talkRadio — “This is a public health crisis. It’s not a crisis of public order.” [video]
September 14, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
September 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
September 10, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
September 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC News — Digital IDs would increase state control over law abiding citizens
September 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times — Dominic Cummings’ Data Revolution: Digital ID Cards
September 2, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Critic — “This is how dictatorships emerge, for the ‘greater good’, measure by measure.”
September 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC Radio 2 — Silkie Carlo on Police Powers & Quarantine [audio]
August 28, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
August 15, 2020 / Press Coverage
Vice — “There are companies out there that are desperate for our data”
August 13, 2020 / Press Coverage
August 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — The government paid AI firm Faculty £400k to spy on our social media posts
August 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
Digit — “Managers would never get away with breathing down employee’s necks”
August 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
Yahoo News — This is lockdown by diktat
August 4, 2020 / Press Coverage
Live with Littlewood — Silkie Carlo talks about Freedom of Speech [video]
July 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
July 28, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
BBC – Privacy or Public Health? [video]
July 26, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Daily Mail — Live facial recognition is one of the most serious threats to civil liberties
July 24, 2020 / Press Coverage
Al Jazeera — Can you protest in the information age and keep your privacy? [video]
July 21, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Huff Post — “It shouldn’t be down to NGOs to keep raising the alarm”
July 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
July 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
London Post — Say NO to facial recognition
July 16, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Digital strip search forms are SCRAPPED
July 16, 2020 / Press Coverage
Live with Littlewood — “There’s no institutional support for free speech” [video]
July 8, 2020 / Press Coverage
Financial News — “The surveillance industry is proving itself a grave risk to fundamental rights”
July 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
Press Gazette — Free Julian Assange
July 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC — Big Brother Watch calls for review of all lockdown fines
July 2, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Independent — “Schedule 21 has been used to target and punish vulnerable people”
July 2, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — The Government’s contact-tracing app has been a slow motion car crash
June 24, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Asking pubs and restaurants to become data controllers overnight is unfair
June 23, 2020 / Press Coverage
June 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
June 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times — PwC has developed a facial recognition tool to monitor staff working from home
June 16, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — The Home Office will share criminal suspects’ DNA data with EU law enforcement bodies
June 16, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC — PimEyes (a facial recognition tool) is putting “women and children at unprecedented risk”
June 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — Live Facial Recognition Used in Protests?
June 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
Financial Times — The Covid Data Heist
June 8, 2020 / Press Coverage
City AM — “Matt Hancock cannot pretend that privacy concerns don’t matter”
June 8, 2020 / Press Coverage
Digit — “thermal cameras are a lurch towards biosurveillance and pervasive health monitoring”
June 4, 2020 / Press Coverage
Dazed — Advice ahead of #BlackLivesMatterUK protests
June 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
June 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Independent — Vague police powers and heightened fines against people of colour
May 31, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “There is no justification for keeping data for 20 years”
May 28, 2020 / Press Coverage
May 21, 2020 / Press Coverage
Joint letter: What’s the NHS-BigTech COVID-19 datastore?
May 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
May 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — “ANPR remains dangerously unregulated”
May 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — “I am horrified by the expansion of the surveillance state”
May 3, 2020 / Press Coverage
May 2, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC — Civil rights groups warn about YouTube censorship
May 2, 2020 / Press Coverage
Joint letter: 10 questions Palantir must answer
April 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times — Police misinterpreted the Coronavirus legislation and wrongly convicted a teenager
April 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
April 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
ITV — “You can’t solve a pandemic with an app”
April 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
MSN — Serious action is needed to prevent the pandemic becoming a “punitive Wild West”
April 17, 2020 / Press Coverage
April 17, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — Police contradictions: what the new police guidance says
April 17, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times — “Drones are an extreme, militaristic form of surveillance”
April 15, 2020 / Press Coverage
Yahoo! — People are being wrongfully convicted under the emergency Coronavirus Act
April 15, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — A warning about the expansion and endurance of ANPR & other emergency measures
April 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail — Another misuse of Coronavirus Act to treat someone as “potentially infectious”
April 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — Let’s not become a nation of informants
April 13, 2020 / Press Coverage
Metro — Police checking supermarket trolleys is not okay
April 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
Independent — An entire nation under house arrest
April 10, 2020 / Press Coverage
Wired — NHS coronavirus app could alert if you spend too long outside
April 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — “There’s a massive structural change going on in the NHS”
April 6, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Observer — “Online anonymity is vital to protect privacy and freedom of expression”
April 4, 2020 / Press Coverage
SkyNews — First known Coronavirus Act fine confirms our fears
April 1, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — The problem with “anonymous data” when facing a pandemic
March 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
New York Times — “We risk easily finding ourselves in a perpetual state of emergency”
March 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — “a citizen-run police surveillance network.”
March 29, 2020 / Press Coverage
March 28, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Times — We must protect basic democratic norms
March 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
iNews — Police Filming Innocent Members of the Public With Drones and Putting It Online
March 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph — “Citizen policing is characteristic of authoritarian regimes”
March 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
talkRADIO — Excessive, Unlawful Policing
March 26, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
City AM — The Coronavirus Bill Is “Far Too Long for Such Extreme Powers”
March 25, 2020 / Press Coverage
March 23, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Location Data Is Rarely “Anonymous”
March 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Government must take action and stop police using facial recognition
March 12, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC — “We are at great risk of becoming a surveillance state” [video]
March 9, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
March 4, 2020 / Press Coverage
March 2, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Metro — Met Police used Clearview AI to scrape mass facial recognition data 170 times
February 28, 2020 / Press Coverage
Independent — Facial recognition used again at Oxford Circus by the Met Police
February 27, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Big Brother Watch responds to Met Commissioner’s attack
February 24, 2020 / Press Coverage
February 21, 2020 / Press Coverage
February 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
City AM — Barclays scraps ‘Big Brother’ staff tracking system
February 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
Al Jazeera – Facial Recognitionin in the UK and abroad [video]
February 17, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Times — “Internet regulations will control the everyday interactions of billions of people”
February 13, 2020 / Press Coverage
First ‘operational’ use of facial recognition surveillance in Stratford, London
February 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
Sky News: Facial recognition cameras to be turned on in London [video]
February 5, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Being watched at work // BBC Business Daily
February 3, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
BBC Radio 4 — Live facial recognition technology is being widely spread across the UK
February 2, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
BBC News – Police in partnership with shopping centre over facial recognition trial
January 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC News – Met Police roll out facial recognition across London
January 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
January 30, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC Politics: “heading down that road to a surveillance state” [video]
January 28, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
ITV News: Facial Recognition [video]
January 28, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
New York Times – UK police facial recognition tests public tolerance
January 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – EU considers facial recognition ban
January 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC News — Social Media Data: Psychiatrists want companies to release details on site use [video]
January 17, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Telegraph – Companies considering swapping passwords for biometrics
January 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC News – Police chief warns against facial recognition
January 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Football fans protest police use of facial recognition technology
January 14, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Times – Researchers find that police surveillance at football matches is counterproductive
January 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Report shows facial recognition’s racial and gender bias
January 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
Thomas Reuters Foundation – Expert views on privacy and technology in 2020
January 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
BBC News – Addresses of New Year’s Honours recipients accidentally published online
January 7, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Evening Standard – London start-up develops facial recognition cameras that can read emotion
December 17, 2019 / Press Coverage
Scottish Parliament evidence session on police facial recognition
December 5, 2019 / Press Coverage TV Radio
Surveilling journalists from inside their phones
December 4, 2019 / Press Coverage
Islington Tribune – Privacy scare over hidden cameras in school toilets
November 18, 2019 / Press Coverage
France 24 – Creeping growth of face surveillance in UK
November 18, 2019 / Press Coverage
Telegraph – Chinese CCTV firm Hikvision used by NHS offers racial profiling
November 12, 2019 / Hikvision Press Coverage
The Independent – ICO warns that facial recognition technology may have been used unlawfully
November 5, 2019 / Press Coverage
Metro – Facial recognition used at football match in Swansea
October 29, 2019 / Press Coverage
Holyrood – Scottish Bill proposes the creation of Biometrics Commissioner
October 29, 2019 / Press Coverage
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