Big Brother Watch
Impact in 2025
In 2025, we hit back, hard. From taking on Big Brother-style surveillance to defending free speech, we forced the government and corporations to rethink their overreach. Our campaigns included contesting mass bank spying powers, challenging facial recognition, protecting encryption and fighting digital ID proposals, winning real victories for privacy and freedom. Across the UK, we rallied the public and set the agenda for privacy rights, with momentum that will carry into 2026.
In 2026 we will:
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Stop mandatory digital IDs
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Fight the expansion of facial recognition mass surveillance
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Defend the right to protest from new government attacks
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Roll back non-crime speech policing
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Promote free speech as a universal right
Campaign by numbers
22
Times Big Brother Watch was referenced in Parliament
4
We gave oral evidence to four parliamentary committees
200000+
Petition signatures
10000+
People wrote to the police, shops and politicians using our tools
29 million
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