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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

The Scottish Sun – Big Brother Watch writes to the SNP urging them to stop ‘discriminatory and unethical’ vaccine passports

September 16, 2021

PoliticsHome – Labour and Conservatives face backlash over Covid pass plans

September 15, 2021

The Guardian – NHS app storing facial verification data with private firm iProov

September 15, 2021

How Covid passes urged a football fan to make a stand against his own sport

September 13, 2021

Morning Star – Government increasingly using sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour (study)

September 10, 2021

Vaccine passports have already set us on a slippery slope

September 10, 2021

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