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Emergency Powers

Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures, but we cannot let basic rights fall casualty to crisis. Emergency laws have introduced the most draconian powers ever in peace-time Britain

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Stop Covid Passes

Divisive. Discriminatory. Wrong. We need YOU to join the fight against Covid passes.

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Welfare Data Watch

Algorithms, artificial intelligence and vast stores of data are being used to profile and monitor swathes of the population, a number that has only increased during the pandemic.

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“We work to roll back the surveillance state and protect the rights of everyone in the UK to be free from unfair intrusion.”
Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch

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Media

UK police forces experimenting with retrospective facial recognition technology

Discriminatory vaccine passports pose an even greater threat than ID cards

BBC – Secretive algorithms screening millions of welfare claimants

Councils’ “hidden algorithms” profile millions on benefits, Big Brother Watch investigation finds

The Telegraph – Vaccine passport contractor says they could be ‘redeployed’ as national ID card

talkRADIO – ‘Goverment can no longer say no one is forced to have this vaccine’

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