Media

Guidance for responding to the Government’s consultation on mandatory vaccines for the health and care sector

October 22, 2021 / Blog

FT – UK school canteens introduce facial recognition cameras

October 19, 2021 / Press Coverage

Big tech censorship threatens our democracy

October 17, 2021 / Blog

Spectator – Why is YouTube silencing David Davis?

October 14, 2021 / Press Coverage

YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

October 14, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to Ring doorbell ruling

October 13, 2021 / Press Releases

BBC – New app allows women to be monitored by CCTV on walk home

October 8, 2021 / Press Coverage

Guidance for responding (in 2 minutes!) to the Government’s new consultation on Covid passports

September 30, 2021 / Blog

Big Brother Watch hosts Civil Liberties in a Crisis: Conservatives against Covid IDs

September 30, 2021 / Blog

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

Big Brother Watch hosts Civil Liberties in a Crisis: the left case against Covid IDs event during Labour Party Conference

September 23, 2021 / Blog

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

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

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

September 13, 2021 / Blog

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

September 10, 2021 / Press Coverage

Vaccine passports have already set us on a slippery slope

September 10, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Big Brother Watch broadcasts Ministers’ vaccine passport denials across Westminster

September 8, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch campaign to stop Covid passes projected onto Parliament

September 6, 2021 / Press Releases

The Government Censorship Unit You’ve Never Heard of

September 6, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

MailOnline – Government’s Online Safety Bill will give tech firms ‘right to spy on us’

September 5, 2021 / Press Coverage

Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners

September 5, 2021 / Press Releases

The Telegraph – 90 rights groups sign open letter to Apple urging the company to drop its surveillance plans

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

Discriminatory vaccine passports pose an even greater threat than ID cards

August 2, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

BBC – Secretive algorithms screening millions of welfare claimants

July 20, 2021 / Press Coverage

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

July 20, 2021 / Press Releases

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

July 14, 2021 / Press Coverage

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

July 13, 2021 / Uncategorised

Write to your MP to ask them to vote against mandatory vaccines

July 12, 2021 / Blog

Can the power of information be controlled?

July 1, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

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

Big Brother Watch signs open letter to MPs to protect end-to-end encryption

June 14, 2021 / Blog

Big Brother Watch questions legality of Wembley vaccine passport trial

June 11, 2021 / Press Releases

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

Big Brother Watch sends joint letter on unlawful Coronavirus prosecutions to the Secretary of State for Justice

June 1, 2021 / Blog

iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse

May 28, 2021 / Press Coverage

The Telegraph – Israel’s Green Pass sytem: A stark warning to the UK

May 27, 2021 / Blog

UK mass surveillance found unlawful by Europe’s highest human rights court

May 25, 2021 / Press Releases

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

The UK risks becoming a world leader in online censorship

May 14, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

talkRADIO – Online Safety Bill presents unprecedented threat to free speech

May 13, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio Uncategorised

Big Brother Watch response to the Government’s Online Safety Bill

May 12, 2021 / Press Releases

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

The Guardian – Public’s vaccination status leaked by NHS booking site

May 6, 2021 / Uncategorised

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

The World – Proposals for a Covid-19 passport to access the pub raise concern

April 12, 2021 / Uncategorised

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

70+ MPs launch cross-party campaign against COVID passes

April 2, 2021 / Press Releases

Vaccine passports: the end of liberty as we know it

April 1, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Big Brother Watch supports legal action against police after protest arrests of legal observers

March 26, 2021 / Blog

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

Facebook’s new covid policy limits more than free speech – it limits free inquiry

March 12, 2021 / Blog

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

Save Online Speech Coalition writes to government opposing Online Safety Bill

March 11, 2021 / Blog

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

Britain’s fight against ID: from war IDs to vaccine passports

February 21, 2021 / Blog

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

Rights and democracy groups challenge political leafleting “ban”

February 19, 2021 / Press Releases

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

Co-op facial recognition supermarkets revealed

January 14, 2021 / Press Releases

Evening Express – Recent appeal to NPCC over ableism towards those with mask exemptions

January 13, 2021 / Press Coverage

Rights groups warn “disabled people will bear the brunt” of police crackdown on mask rules

January 13, 2021 / Press Releases

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

Workers fighting compulsory facial recognition with Big Brother Watch – and winning

December 22, 2020 / Blog

City AM – Where is sovereignty now, in post-Covid, post-Brexit Britain?

December 17, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Online harms plans threaten the future of free expression

December 16, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Daily Star — Vaccine passports would be irresponsible and discriminatory

December 14, 2020 / Press Coverage

BBC — “A supposedly ethical company secretly using facial recognition on its customers is deeply chilling”

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

BBC — Microsoft has filed a patent for a system to monitor employees’ facial recognition and body language

December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage

Sky News — We will not accept a health apartheid

December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage

Morning Star — “We must not slide into a police state where police make up the rules as they go along”

December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage

BBC debate on mass CCTV and the Surveillance State

December 1, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio

The Guardian — “The incompetence and casual authoritarianism demonstrated by the Met police here is breathtaking”

November 28, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch & Liberty Send a Letter to the Met about Today’s Demonstrations in London

November 28, 2020 / Blog

Daily Mail — Councils using huge amounts of highly personal data and predictive analytics to create covid risk scores

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

Covid Police Fines Misused Warn Big Brother Watch and Liberty

November 20, 2020 / Press Releases

BIG BROTHER WATCH AND LIBERTY WARN COVID FINES MUST BE URGENTLY REVIEWED

November 20, 2020 / Blog

Big Brother Watch applied for permission to intervene in legal challenge R (Dolan and others) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

November 18, 2020 / Blog

On Labour’s anti-vax censorship policy

November 18, 2020 / Blog

We signed an open letter to the UK charity sector to remove adtech from their websites

November 18, 2020 / Blog

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

Big Brother Watch letter to Metropolitan Police — Covid Regulations and Freedom of the Press

November 9, 2020 / Blog

City AM — “People will no longer tolerate coercive and heavy-handed policing when it comes to the few liberties they have left.”

November 9, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage

Brent Council changes tack on COVID-Enforcement Officer roles after pressure from Big Brother Watch

November 6, 2020 / Blog

Parliamentary scrutiny is minimal as MPs vote to impose second national lockdown

November 6, 2020 / Blog

Metro — “Spying on their residents is the worst possible approach local authorities could take”

October 29, 2020 / Press Coverage

DIGIT — Big Brother Watch joins Open Rights Group to take legal action against the government’s Test and Trace data retention

October 27, 2020 / Press Coverage

talkRadio — “People will not want to engage with a test and trace system if it can’t be trusted” [video]

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

Big Brother Watch and Article 19 ask Google about search results

October 13, 2020 / Blog

Daily Mail — “These sinister and heavy-handed Covid patrols will only create conflict, fear and confusion”

October 11, 2020 / Press Coverage

Daily Mail — Test and Trace has become the vehicle for huge privacy violations

October 7, 2020 / Press Coverage

Government-funded artificial intelligence cameras and sensors used in UK towns to monitor social distancing

October 7, 2020 / Blog

Academy of Ideas — Civil Liberties in times of crisis [video]

October 6, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Sun — “The Government risks trashing British freedoms and democracy with little apparent benefit for public health”

October 3, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Coronavirus Act rebellion is a warning shot to our draconian Government

October 2, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

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

Coronavirus Has Created A Crisis Of Over-Policing. Parliament Must Act Now – Before It’s Too Late

September 30, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Sky News — “Government cannot and should not legislate every part of our lives”

September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage

BBC — “Amazon continues to fill the market with invasive, dystopian technologies that solve non-existent problems”

September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Spectator — What’s the future for civil liberties in Britain? From protests, diktats and MPs’ rebellion to beyond [video]

September 29, 2020 / Press Coverage

Coronavirus Act: Biggest Expansion of UK State Power in a Generation —Silkie Carlo & Steve Baker MP [Podcast #5]

September 28, 2020 / Podcast

NEWS: We’ve joined 20 rights groups to tell MPs to scrap the Coronavirus Act

September 27, 2020 / Press Releases

The Guardian — Workplace Surveillance: “It’s not consent if you can’t choose”

September 27, 2020 / Press Coverage

BBC — Amazon Is At It Again

September 24, 2020 / Press Coverage

The dire public health consequence of ignoring test and trace privacy concerns

September 24, 2020 / Press Releases

What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Act [FILM]

September 22, 2020 / Videos

DIGIT — “An astoundingly excessive law that poses a serious risk to privacy and data rights”

September 21, 2020 / Press Coverage

Daily Mail — “Once we all have the app, will companies want to move on to providing ‘passports’ for more serious diseases?”

September 19, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Times — “The Coronavirus Act contains some of the most extreme powers in modern British history.”

September 18, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch’s Statement: This new approach to contact tracing is based on exclusion, criminal sanctions & police enforcement

September 18, 2020 / Press Releases

The Times — “This government is churning out increasingly dystopian plans at a huge cost to the public purse and civil liberties.”

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

The Critic — “We have more surveillance today than any country of any political persuasion has in history”

September 10, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Telegraph — “The Coronavirus Act represents the biggest expansion of executive power in a generation”

September 10, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch’s Statement: ‘We will see cases where people’s personal data is hoarded, lost and misused’

September 9, 2020 / Press Releases

City AM — “The British public has never accepted national ID cards before — and, I assure you we won’t now”

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

Daily Mail — Lincolnshire Police has received funding to trial facial recognition that reads your mood

August 15, 2020 / Press Coverage

Vice — “There are companies out there that are desperate for our data”

August 13, 2020 / Press Coverage

Financial Times — Court of Appeal confirms police use of live facial recognition surveillance was unlawful

August 11, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch’s response to Court of Appeal judgment in Dr Bridges’ challenge to live facial recognition

August 11, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Stop Facial Recognition [film]

August 5, 2020 / Videos

Stop Facial Recognition Fund

August 5, 2020 / Blog

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

The Times — Should Donald Trump Jnr have been suspended from Twitter? Silkie Carlo on Freedom of Speech Online [audio]

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

Podcast #4: Covid-19 and the Rise of Biosurveillance — Silkie Carlo, Dr. Stephanie Hare & Prof. Evan Selinger

July 21, 2020 / Podcast

Huff Post — “It shouldn’t be down to NGOs to keep raising the alarm”

July 20, 2020 / Press Coverage

Daily Mail — If it’s connected to the internet the potential for data to be fed to unauthorised sources is huge

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

The Independent — “One thing is consistent, that police are still disproportionately issuing fines to Asian and black people”

July 12, 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

100 Days of Lockdown in the UK [film]

July 1, 2020 / Videos

Campaigners demand review of all lockdown fines

July 1, 2020 / Press Releases

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

BBC — “Victims of no other crime are expected to surrender their digital lives to such speculation and scrutiny”

June 18, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch’s response — UK drops centralised contact tracing app

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

The Guardian — “Rape victims are being systematically denied justice if they defend their data rights”

June 18, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch responds to ICO’s investigation on mobile phone extractions

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

RAPE CASES DROPPED OVER DIGITAL STRIP SEARCH REFUSALS

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Podcast #3: Emergency Powers, the Role of Parliament and Civil Liberties — Silkie Carlo & Shami Chakrabarti

June 11, 2020 / Podcast

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

The Lockdown Amendments: Everything you Need to Know

June 8, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Digit — “thermal cameras are a lurch towards biosurveillance and pervasive health monitoring”

June 4, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch tells airports to drop thermal surveillance

June 3, 2020 / Blog

Big Brother Watch tells airports to drop thermal surveillance [press release]

June 3, 2020 / Press Releases

Dazed — Advice ahead of #BlackLivesMatterUK protests

June 3, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Guardian — “This ‘Wild West’ policing is dangerous and risks being normalised at a time of crisis”

June 1, 2020 / Press Coverage

Podcast #2: Coronavirus, social media censorship and the impact on free speech — Silkie Carlo, Matthew Lesh & Rachael Jolley

June 1, 2020 / Podcast

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

Podcast #1: Over-policing, emergency laws and future biosecurity — Silkie Carlo, Kevin Blowe & Eveline Lubbers

May 27, 2020 / Podcast

Have you been issued a lockdown fine under coronavirus laws? Contact us!

May 26, 2020 / Blog

Daily Mail — “The CPS review revealed an outbreak of injustice and we fear it could be just the tip of the iceberg”

May 21, 2020 / Press Coverage

RIGHTS GROUPS CALL FOR URGENT REVIEW OF CORONAVIRUS FINES

May 21, 2020 / Press Releases

Joint letter: What’s the NHS-BigTech COVID-19 datastore?

May 18, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Independent — “Extraordinary laws are being applied incorrectly and disproportionately across the country”

May 18, 2020 / Press Coverage

Daily Mail — “ANPR remains dangerously unregulated”

May 11, 2020 / Press Coverage

The NHS contact tracing app could put us all on tag. It didn’t have to be this way.

May 7, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

The Telegraph — “I am horrified by the expansion of the surveillance state”

May 3, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Times — CPS to review EVERY charge, conviction + sentence brought under emergency coronavirus laws

May 2, 2020 / Press Coverage

BBC — Civil rights groups warn about YouTube censorship

May 2, 2020 / Press Coverage

Coronavirus Policing: What’s happening on the Isle of Man…?

May 1, 2020 / Blog

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

Big Brother Watch review reveals “staggering incompetence” in use of emergency powers and demands lockdown exit strategy

April 28, 2020 / Press Releases

The Independent — “Using drones for surveillance has fallen between the cracks of law and regulation”

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

Daily Mail — “A lot of the things that are being done are going to end up lasting long beyond the coronavirus pandemic”

April 17, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Telegraph — Police contradictions: what the new police guidance says

April 17, 2020 / Press Coverage

Campaigners raise free expression concerns with Facebook, YouTube and DCMS

April 16, 2020 / Press Releases

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

BBC Radio4 — Silkie Carlo, Baroness Professor Ilora Finlay, Andy McDonald MP, Nadhim Zahawi MP [audio]

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

BBC Radio 4 — MP David Davis says regarding the #CoronavirusBillUK: “the Government’s got to tell us the truth”

March 23, 2020 / Press Coverage

“Two Years Is Too Long” for “Draconian” Coronavirus Bill, Warn MPs & Rights Groups

March 23, 2020 / Press Releases

The Guardian — Location Data Is Rarely “Anonymous”

March 20, 2020 / Press Coverage

EMERGENCY CORONAVIRUS BILL “MOST DRACONIAN POWERS IN PEACE-TIME BRITAIN”

March 19, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response — Emergency bill outline now published

March 18, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response to the COVID-19 emergency and human rights

March 16, 2020 / Press Releases

The Guardian — Government must take action and stop police using facial recognition

March 12, 2020 / Press Coverage

UK’s civil and political rights record under review: challenges of new digital technologies

March 12, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces

BBC — “We are at great risk of becoming a surveillance state” [video]

March 9, 2020 / Press Coverage TV Radio

Business Insider — 71% of facial recognition misidentifications resulted in police stopping + IDing innocent people

March 4, 2020 / Press Coverage

Public Radio International — Our everyday lives are effectively being subjected to a constant police lineup [audio]

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

The Independent — Police stop and search innocent black man for ‘looking at officers with hands in pocket’

February 21, 2020 / Press Coverage

Morning Star — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is giving his ‘blessing’ to police use of facial recognition

February 20, 2020 / Press Coverage

City AM — Barclays scraps ‘Big Brother’ staff tracking system

February 20, 2020 / Press Coverage

Facial recognition surveillance in central London

February 20, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Big Brother Watch’s comment on plans for Ofcom to police social media

February 12, 2020 / Press Releases

First ‘operational’ use of facial recognition surveillance in Stratford, London

February 11, 2020 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch response to Met’s first operational facial recognition deployment

February 10, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Stratford London Met Police Facial Recognition

BBC News – Met Police roll out facial recognition across London

January 30, 2020 / Press Coverage

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – MP meets with Chinese technology company involved in Uighur camps

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

Big Brother Watch response to Met Police facial recognition announcement

January 24, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Police to target football fans with facial recognition cameras AGAIN

January 8, 2020 / Press Releases

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

Tap & track: how shops use your card payments to link your in-store and online spending

December 10, 2019 / Blog

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 / 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

Facial Recognition at Liberty Stadium: Big Brother Watch & Football Supporters’ Association Wales Comments

October 26, 2019 / Press Releases

The Guardian – A third of councils using unreliable algorithms to make welfare decisions

October 23, 2019 / Press Coverage

Daily Mail – Government scheme gives companies access to smart meter data

October 23, 2019 / Press Coverage

October 10, 2019

Daily Telegraph – Waltham Forest Council trialled facial recognition without residents’ knowledge

October 10, 2019

Daily Telegraph – Twitter unfairly profiting from selling millions of UK users’ data

October 10, 2019

Commonspace – MSPs pushed to ban facial recognition

October 10, 2019

The Guardian – Facial recognition technology and the surveillance state

October 10, 2019

Digit – Facebook encryption could put lives in danger, according to Ministers

October 10, 2019

BBC – Met Police has no record of facial matches at King’s Cross development

October 4, 2019

Big Brother Watch statement on Government request to prevent Facebook encryption

September 30, 2019

Scottish Legal News – Campaigners call on Scottish government to expand scope of proposed biometrics commissioner

September 30, 2019

The Telegraph – Future of Surveillance: Gait and Heartbeat Recognition

September 28, 2019

Daily Telegraph – AI face expression and voice analysis used in job interviews

September 24, 2019

The Guardian – Face surveillance threatens to end privacy

September 24, 2019

Newsweek – Musicians rally against facial recognition at concerts

September 18, 2019

BBC – Big Brother Watch, MPs and 25 rights groups calls for “urgent stop” to face surveillance

September 18, 2019

BBC Victoria Derbyshire – Live facial recognition surveillance ‘must stop’

September 18, 2019

MPs and rights groups call for “urgent stop” to facial recognition suMPs and rights groups call for “urgent stop” to facial recognition surveillance

September 16, 2019

New York Times – Real-time face surveillance will test British tolerance for cameras

September 16, 2019

BBC World News – Should facial recognition be banned?

September 16, 2019

Mail on Sunday – NCA building “library of voice prints”

September 12, 2019

The Times – Police facial recognition in the spotlight

September 11, 2019

The Guardian – Request for user tracking on government website prompts questions

September 8, 2019

The Times – Police partnerships with Amazon over front-door surveillance devices

September 4, 2019

New Statesman – Privacy groups fight back against police facial recognition

September 4, 2019

Big Brother Watch response to judgment on South Wales Police use of facial recognition

September 3, 2019

BBC – Kings Cross halts further facial recognition plans

September 3, 2019

i News – CCTV used for school behavioural management

September 3, 2019

ABC, Planet America – Facial recognition: Bad when it fails, bad when it works

September 2, 2019

CNBC – Campaigners warn regulation won’t stop live facial recognition eroding freedoms

August 28, 2019

Daily Mail – UK surveillance could be worse than Orwell’s 1984

August 23, 2019

Regulation would be a life raft for live facial recognition — we need a ban

August 23, 2019

Telegraph – EU Commission planning facial recognition regulation

August 21, 2019

New Statesman – How a new “digital strip search” policy treats rape victims as suspects

August 20, 2019

Daily Telegraph – Questions and concern over Kings Cross private facial recognition

August 20, 2019

The Times view on the use of facial recognition technology: Surveillance State

August 16, 2019

ITV News – Epidemic of facial recognition in the UK

August 16, 2019

BBC Breakfast – Epidemic of facial recognition in the UK

August 16, 2019

BBC Tech Tent – Are you being watched?

August 16, 2019

Sky News – Privacy campaigners warn of facial recognition epidemic

August 16, 2019

Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK

August 15, 2019

BBC News – Kings Cross private company face surveillance & ICO investigation

August 13, 2019

Huffington Post – Should you be worried about facial recognition?

August 13, 2019

The Telegraph – King’s Cross area using facial recognition

August 6, 2019

The Times – Victims should not be subjected to digital strip searches

August 5, 2019

City AM – Debate: Should you be worried about live facial recognition?

August 5, 2019

The Guardian – Is facial recognition in your local supermarket?

August 5, 2019

The Guardian – Apple stops contractors snooping on Siri recordings

August 1, 2019

The Telegraph – AI and facial recognition trialled in London bar

July 31, 2019

Bournemouth Daily Echo – Westquay shopping centre using AI to track customers

July 29, 2019

Reuters – Data is the new oil so watch out for mass mining

July 29, 2019

Mail on Sunday – ‘Revolving door’ exposed as ex-police chief gets Big Brother database job

July 24, 2019

CodaStory – Another US city bans police facial recognition, but it’s an uphill battle

July 23, 2019

Are China’s facial recognition trials really the example the Met police want to follow? (openDemocracy)

July 23, 2019

BBC Victoria Derbyshire – Digital strip searches of victims

July 23, 2019

BBC World Service – Alexa dispenses medical advice

July 23, 2019

BBC Radio 4 – Surveillance and Human Freedom

July 23, 2019

BBC Victoria Derbyshire – Silkie Carlo discusses police use of digital evidence in the case of victims of sexual offences

July 23, 2019

BBC – ‘Rape cases dropped’ over police phone search demands

July 23, 2019

Rights groups call for urgent reform on police “digital strip searches” of victims

July 23, 2019

Law Society Gazette – Digital strip searches report launch

July 18, 2019

BBC News – Leicestershire police facial recognition & MPs call for a ban

July 18, 2019

BBC – MPs call for halt to police’s use of live facial recognition

July 17, 2019

Eastern Daily Press – Traffic wardens could be given body worn cameras to protect from abuse, Norfolk council says

July 17, 2019

The Independent – Police testing technology to ‘assess the risk of someone committing a crime’ in UK

July 15, 2019

New Statesman – How citizen-scoring algorithms are being used in the UK

July 12, 2019

Lancashire Post – ASDA denies using facial recognition cameras on its customers in Preston amid privacy concerns

July 11, 2019

Big Brother Watch statement on NHS – Amazon partnership

July 10, 2019

UK mass surveillance challenged in Europe’s highest human rights court

July 6, 2019

The Guardian – Police and Crown Prosecution Service cancel meeting on rape victims’ phone data due to legal action

July 5, 2019

Sky News – Facial recognition in China ‘spot on’, say Metropolitan Police Federation

July 4, 2019

Sky News & others – Damning independent report on Metropolitan Police facial recognition

July 3, 2019

Big Brother Watch response to “utterly damning” review of police facial recognition

June 25, 2019

The Telegraph – Peterborough smart city trial residents are ‘being treated like lab rats’

June 24, 2019

Evening Standard – Police bodycams with facial recognition to pick out criminals from the crowd

June 20, 2019

The Telegraph – Police trials of facial recognition technology should be banned immediately

June 14, 2019

Al Jazeera – The World According to AI (UK police facial recognition)

June 14, 2019

Police drop Experian profiling tool following Big Brother Watch exposé

June 5, 2019

The Telegraph – Universities to trawl through students’ social media

June 5, 2019

Financial Times – Law Society warns that police algorithms ‘put justice at risk’

May 31, 2019

The Telegraph – AI emotion detection cameras are being used to spy on shoppers

May 31, 2019

CBS – Police ethics panel says facial recognition should not be used “at the expense of valued liberties”

May 31, 2019

Big Brother Watch joins NGOs + tech giants to tell GCHQ to drop encryption eavesdropping plans

May 31, 2019

Evening Telegraph Dundee – Council to buy ‘smart’ CCTV that tracks people

May 31, 2019

BBC Essex: Silkie Carlo condemns Essex council buying Chinese CCTV cameras

May 27, 2019

Spiked – Facial recognition: Britain faces a dystopian future

May 24, 2019

Channel 5 News: Facial recognition debate

May 24, 2019

BBC – TfL to track tube users’ WiFi

May 24, 2019

Al Jazeera: What are the dangers of facial recognition?

May 17, 2019

Facial recognition cameras are eroding our civil liberties. We must stop them before it’s too late

May 16, 2019

BBC – Police fine man £90 after stopping him for covering his face

May 16, 2019

BBC Click – Metropolitan Police facial recognition

May 14, 2019

Forbes – Google creates new ‘privacy and safety’ engineering centre

May 14, 2019

BBC – Use of facial recognition tech ‘dangerously irresponsible’

May 14, 2019

TalkRadio – Police live facial recognition is a threat to freedom

May 13, 2019

The Telegraph – San Francisco bans police facial recognition

May 7, 2019

BBC – HMRC forced to delete 5 million voice records following our investigation

May 3, 2019

Big Brother Watch response: HMRC forced to delete 5 million voice IDs

May 2, 2019

The Times – Big Brother Watch tells police to drop facial recognition

May 1, 2019

Campaigners urge Met to drop “disastrous” facial recognition

April 29, 2019

BBC Victoria Derbyshire – Rape victims asked to hand phones to police – Silkie Carlo

April 29, 2019

Crown Prosecution Service and police forcing “digital strip searches” of victims

April 29, 2019

The Telegraph – Concern councils using drones to snoop on public

April 29, 2019

BBC News – Police digital strip searches of sexual violence victims

April 26, 2019

Daily Mail – Shoppers secretly filmed for behavioural analysis

April 17, 2019

The Independent – Police shut down tube wifi in response to protests

April 12, 2019

The Telegraph – Smart home device conversations listened to by employees

April 11, 2019

The Guardian – Letter to the Editor regarding UK Government internet censorship proposals

April 10, 2019

Time – UK Government’s new internet regulation proposals

April 1, 2019

Daily Mail – New car speed tracking proposals

March 29, 2019

Daily Mail – AI developed by the US military that tracks changes in your behaviour online

March 27, 2019

The Times – Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?

March 26, 2019

The Guardian – Crown Prosecution Service under fire for investigating 12 year old victim after suspect had admitted rape

March 12, 2019

Politico – UK Government looks the other way on Artificial Intelligence

March 6, 2019

BBC News – Ministry of Justice deploys facial recognition on prison visitors

March 5, 2019

Phone numbers given to Facebook for security purposes can be used to identify profiles

March 1, 2019

Sky News – Predictive algorithms in welfare, policing and children’s services

February 26, 2019

The Telegraph – Airline carriers admit to cameras in seat-back screens

February 25, 2019

Campaigners denounce “abject failure” of police to reform digital investigations of rape victims

February 25, 2019

The Times – Police putting rape victims under investigation

February 21, 2019

Justice Gap – Why rape victims’ privacy must be protected from intrusive investigations

February 20, 2019

Google admits hidden microphone in Nest product

February 7, 2019

UK mass surveillance challenge will go to Europe’s highest human rights court

February 6, 2019

RightsInfo – Rape victims being coerced into submitting mobile phone data

February 1, 2019

The Independent – At Met Police facial recognition trial in Romford people stopped and searched for covering their faces

January 30, 2019

The Guardian – Big Brother Watch & press freedoms groups call for urgent changes to new surveillance Bill

January 26, 2019

BBC – Thousands tell HMRC to delete their voice data

January 25, 2019

Tax Voice ID scheme faces backlash as thousands delete Voice IDs

January 21, 2019

Universal Credit, benefits and automated risk scores – are you affected?

January 21, 2019

The Independent – Police spent over £200,000 on facial recognition ‘trial’ which resulted in 0 arrests

January 20, 2019

Mail on Sunday – University using surveillance technology to track students

January 17, 2019

Fighting For Our Freedoms in 2019

January 15, 2019

The Times – Councils have cut services but spend millions on CCTV

December 24, 2018

Daily Mail – Is your smart home device spying on you?

December 23, 2018

Mail on Sunday – New police system is being used to ‘predict’ who is likely to commit crimes

December 20, 2018

The Guardian – Police trawls of rape victims’ private data to be investigated

December 19, 2018

RightsInfo – Mass surveillance in London’s West End

December 17, 2018

BBC News and others – Police deploy live facial recognition in Westminster

December 14, 2018

Big Brother Watch response to planned police use of “authoritarian” facial recognition

December 10, 2018

Free speech on campus is under threat – and the Government’s Prevent scheme poses one of the greatest risks

November 27, 2018

The Telegraph – Kent Police stop using crime prediction software

November 20, 2018

CryptoPartyLDN Podcast: Privacy 2028

November 16, 2018

The Sun – New police cameras with a range of 1000m

November 12, 2018

The Independent – Our call for an urgent investigation into rape victims’ personal data

November 12, 2018

The Guardian – Met Commissioner says police live facial recognition is being restricted by regulation

November 12, 2018

Digit – Police Scotland’s use of mobile phone download technology

November 11, 2018

Big Brother Watch calls for urgent investigation into demands for rape victims’ data

November 8, 2018

Privacy is Power

November 7, 2018

The UK’s poorest are put at risk by automated welfare decisions

November 5, 2018

Hull Daily Mail – Councils selling personal information

November 5, 2018

Your Thurrock – New information revealed about predictive profiles for vulnerable people

November 2, 2018

Daily Express – Home Office £500,000 ‘competition’ for surveillance tech ideas to tackle knife crime

October 25, 2018

Joint statement on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018

October 25, 2018

The Guardian – Counter-terror bill is a threat to press freedom, say campaigners

October 23, 2018

Why you should be worried about police mass surveillance of shoppers at the Trafford Centre

October 22, 2018

Wired – Heathrow is rolling out a facial recognition system

October 14, 2018

Mail on Sunday – Police in Manchester are caught using live facial recognition to spy on shoppers

September 21, 2018

BBC Podcast – Tech Tent: Do the police have your biometric digits?

September 20, 2018

Evening Standard – Amazon deliveries to film you as you open them

September 19, 2018

Computer programme to predict whether residents will become anti-social or homeless

September 14, 2018

UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark judgment

September 13, 2018

UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark judgment

August 26, 2018

The Scottish Sun – Using anti-terror laws to spy on welfare claimants

August 25, 2018

The Daily Telegraph – Facebook allowing targeted homophobic ads

August 17, 2018

TalkRadio – Employer Surveillance – Griff Ferris

August 15, 2018

Big Brother Watch comment on the Met Police’s use of fingerprint scanners

August 15, 2018

Evening Standard – Met Police using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners

August 10, 2018

The Guardian – Big Brother Watch view on internet regulation

August 10, 2018

Evening Standard – Big Brother Watch letter on Internet regulation

August 10, 2018

The public execution of Infowars is dangerous and counterproductive

August 7, 2018

The Metro – Police use of facial recognition at football matches

August 3, 2018

Law Society Podcast: Facial recognition technology – Who is watching us?

August 2, 2018

The Times – Google might plan to help Chinese censorship

August 1, 2018

The Daily Telegraph – Big Brother Watch letter to the Editor on ID cards

July 30, 2018

No – We Still Don’t Want ID Cards

July 28, 2018

Daily Star – Facebook facial recognition

July 27, 2018

The Independent – Met deploys facial recognition at Stratford

July 25, 2018

BBC Online – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge against Met Police

July 25, 2018

Big Brother Watch Begins Landmark Legal Challenge to Police Use of Facial Recognition Surveillance

July 9, 2018

BBC Radio 4 Law in Action – Facial Recognition Technology – Silkie Carlo

July 6, 2018

We’ve got to stop the Met Police’s dangerously authoritarian facial recognition surveillance

June 28, 2018

Big Brother Watch response to the Biometrics Strategy

June 28, 2018

Big Brother Watch response to Met use of facial recognition in Stratford, London

June 25, 2018

Mail on Sunday – HMRC takes 5 million taxpayers’ voice biometric IDs without consent

June 25, 2018

HMRC takes 5 million taxpayers’ Voice IDs without consent

June 24, 2018

5 million biometric IDs by the back door – HMRC’s voice IDs, your rights and the law

June 22, 2018

CryptoPartyLDN Talk: ‘Encryption Not Allowed’ – Jake Davis & Mustafa Al-Bassam on Lulzsec & SCPOs

June 14, 2018

Sky News Online – Launch of legal challenge to facial recognition

June 14, 2018

Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Government and Met Police on “dangerously authoritarian” facial recognition cameras

June 6, 2018

BBC 4: The Moral Maze – Intelligence Sharing of non-supects – Silkie Carlo

June 1, 2018

The Hive Podcast: Surveillance & the state

June 1, 2018

The Guardian – Smart Home Surveillance

May 28, 2018

The Daily Telegraph – PSPOs in front of abortion clinics

May 26, 2018

The Independent – Supermarket surveillance

May 25, 2018

Metro – TfL passenger tracking

May 24, 2018

The Daily Mail – Facebook asks to upload nudes

May 22, 2018

Big Brother Watch’s statement on the Met Police’s stop on using facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

May 15, 2018

The Guardian – UK police use of facial recognition technology a failure, says report

May 15, 2018

“Dangerous and inaccurate” police facial recognition exposed in new Big Brother Watch report

May 15, 2018

Police Facial Recognition Is An Authoritarian And Oppressive Surveillance Tool

May 3, 2018

BBC News – Facial recognition to be used at Singapore airport

April 30, 2018

New York Post, Daily Mail – Getting Facebook messages via your skin

April 21, 2018

Mail on Sunday – Google’s data harvesting business

April 19, 2018

Misleading, incompetent and authoritarian: the Home Office’s defence of facial recognition

April 18, 2018

BBC News Online – Facebook to bring back facial recognition to Europe

April 16, 2018

Sky News Online – AI report House of Lords Select Committee

April 13, 2018

Gizmodo – Durham using Experian data in custody AI

April 9, 2018

BBC News Online – Durham Police using Experian Mosaic in AI systems

April 8, 2018

The Daily Express (Main and Online) – ANPR cameras

April 6, 2018

Police use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions

April 6, 2018

A Closer Look at Experian Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Durham Police

April 3, 2018

TalkRADIO: Police accessing digital evidence on people’s phones – Griff Ferris

April 3, 2018

Cambridge News – Body worn cameras in hospitals

March 28, 2018

BBC Radio 4: Moral Maze – Facebook data exploitation – Silkie Carlo

March 27, 2018

BBC Radio Oxford – Body Worn Cameras – Silkie Carlo

March 27, 2018

BBC Radio Cumbria – Body Worn Cameras – Silkie Carlo

March 25, 2018

Facebook and the dark side of social media | The Listening Post

March 23, 2018

How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? What is included – and what isn’t?

March 23, 2018

BBC Radio 4 – Facebook and personal information – Silkie Carlo

March 22, 2018

TalkRadio – Facebook and surveillance – Silkie Carlo

March 22, 2018

Babbage: Saving Face…book

March 22, 2018

LBC – Facebook and data exploitation – Silkie Carlo

March 22, 2018

Sky News (Online) – Facebook’s data exploiting business model

March 21, 2018

TalkRadio – Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – Silkie Carlo

March 21, 2018

I Am Deleting My Facebook Account – Here Is Why And How I Did It

March 21, 2018

Cambridge Analytica Is A Symptom Of The Bigger Facebook Problem

March 20, 2018

The Future of Surveillance Cameras in the UK: A Question Time Themed Event

March 16, 2018

We know why Alexa is laughing

March 14, 2018

We Must Protect Our Rights From Automated Decisions

March 9, 2018

War, Journalism and Whistleblowers Event at Birkbeck University with Director Silkie Carlo

March 5, 2018

BBC Radio Gloucestershire – Cyber attacks local authorities – Jennifer Krueckeberg

March 5, 2018

BBC Radio Gloucestershire – Cyber attacks local authorities – Jennifer Krueckeberg

March 5, 2018

New data protection laws – do they really protect us?

March 2, 2018

Mail Online – Dubai to create DNA database of millions of people

February 26, 2018

LBC – School CCTV hack – Silkie Carlo

February 20, 2018

BBC News Online – Councils hit by 98m cyber attacks in 5 years

February 20, 2018

CryptoPartyLDN Talk: Richard Stallman on Free Software, Freedom & Privacy

February 19, 2018

Local authorities face 19 million cyber attacks a year, investigation reveals

February 13, 2018

The Register – On-the-spot fingerprint identity scanners

February 12, 2018

Big Brother Watch’s comment on the use of digital evidence in sexual offence prosecutions

February 12, 2018

The Daily Mail – Number of custody image deletion requests miniscule

February 12, 2018

Big Brother Watch comments on innocents’ custody image deletion figures

February 12, 2018

TalkRadio – Custody Images – Silkie Carlo

February 8, 2018

BBC – Google merging with home surveillance company

February 3, 2018

The Daily Mail – Drivers filming each other

February 3, 2018

The Daily Star – Paying by facial recognition

February 3, 2018

TalkRadio – Snoopers’ Charter – Silkie Carlo

February 2, 2018

New Statesman – Facial recognition and biometrics

February 1, 2018

The Telegraph and others – Digital Minister’s app privacy issues

January 31, 2018

The Sun – Snoopers’ Charter ruled illegal

January 31, 2018

Evening Standard – Employee tracking devices

January 16, 2018

The Independent – NHS patient data

January 15, 2018

Big Brother Watch’s comment on handover of 180,000 cancer patient records to tobacco industry-linked firm

January 10, 2018

The Daily Mail & The Daily Express – ANPR cameras

January 10, 2018

The surveillance state in 2018

January 8, 2018

Big Brother Watch’s comment on the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Annual Report

January 8, 2018

The Register – The expanding surveillance state

December 20, 2017

Final reports from the Interception of Communications Commissioner and Intelligence Services Commissioner: improved transparency from one, a soft touch from the other

December 15, 2017

Big Brother Watch has a new Director

December 13, 2017

Government reveal police powers “policy” on facial recognition, in letter to Science and Technology Committee

December 5, 2017

Review of security and intelligence services proposes using algorithms and increasing bulk personal datasets to catch terrorists

November 30, 2017

Home Office consultation on Watson judgment could change the Investigatory Powers Act – for better or worse

November 27, 2017

The Government announces new drone bill for 2018

November 16, 2017

Our recommendations to TfL and concerns about Facial Recognition championed by the GLA Oversight Committee

November 9, 2017

Big Brother Watch at the European Court of Human Rights – Case Summary

November 3, 2017

Big Brother Watch and Others v UK at the European Court of Human Rights

November 1, 2017

We’re hiring! Big Brother Watch is looking for a new Director

October 31, 2017

Home Office not listening to Ethics Group on Custody Images and Facial Biometrics

October 30, 2017

Le Monde – Facial recognition and custody photos (Log-in required & in French)

September 13, 2017

Biometrics Commissioner’s Annual Report paints a far from pretty picture on the Government’s approach to facial biometrics

September 13, 2017

Smartphone facial recognition technology

August 25, 2017

Huffington Post UK OpEd – FaceOff

August 16, 2017

Big Brother Watch sign letter calling for the scrapping of facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

August 7, 2017

Data Protection Bill: The wheels set in motion for GDPR implementation

July 27, 2017

Facial biometrics instead of train tickets? Don’t even go there

July 19, 2017

Still no biometric strategy, but launch of a competition to find Robocop instead.

July 6, 2017

NHS, DeepMind and the ICO: The importance of privacy in a modern NHS

June 30, 2017

Five Eyes open letter

June 23, 2017

Think privacy before using Snapchat’s new map feature

June 21, 2017

Privacy, security, data protection and civil liberties in the Queen’s Speech

June 21, 2017

Scottish Government’s “totalitarian” Named Person Scheme “dead in the water” – will this be a wakeup call for the UK Government’s Data Sharing plan?

June 14, 2017

The French-British action plan on internet security is likely to make us less, not more safe

May 25, 2017

1 year countdown to GDPR begins today

May 18, 2017

How the NHS cyberattack reveals the flaws in the Government’s attempts to keep us safe

April 5, 2017

Should removal of privacy be a condition of travel?

March 21, 2017

Lords Committee recommend greater privacy safeguards for children

March 2, 2017

Big wins in the battle to improve the Digital Economy Bill

February 15, 2017

Our concerns debated by Lords in Digital Economy Bill Committee Stage.

February 14, 2017

Government Cyber Security Strategy – how does encryption fit into all of this?

February 10, 2017

The Government’s Digital Transformation Strategy: putting the cart before the horse.

February 8, 2017

Huffington Post – Body Worn Cameras in the Classroom

February 4, 2017

Yet More Surveillance in the Classroom

February 3, 2017

PAC Report is cause for yet more data sharing concerns

January 12, 2017

Update on the Government’s Custody Image Review

January 6, 2017

Consumer Electronics Show 2017: security and privacy sidelined yet again

January 5, 2017

More Good Ideas about Protecting Personal Data Online

December 21, 2016

Better Late than Never – A Government Consultation on Drones

December 21, 2016

CJEU judgment says UK Government’s bulk retention of our communications data is illegal

December 13, 2016

The Digital Economy Bill and GDPR debated in parliament

December 7, 2016

Uber now tracks you even after you’ve left the car

November 28, 2016

Capx – Digital Economy Bill

November 22, 2016

Time for Action on Drones

November 21, 2016

TfL to track tube users’ phones

November 17, 2016

Investigatory Powers Bill set to become Law

November 16, 2016

SCC publishes latest Annual Report

November 1, 2016

The Government risks undermining itself on Cyber Security

October 25, 2016

Companies consider use-by-dates for smart devices

October 20, 2016

Dynamic IP addresses declared a type of private data

October 17, 2016

Body Worn Cameras – Proper Evidence Needed

October 11, 2016

Huffington Post – Digital Economy Bill

October 11, 2016

Social Media Law: More Guidance but No Progress

September 29, 2016

Body-worn cameras: helpful in a study at least

September 15, 2016

Buzzfeed – Collection of Data by Mobile Phones

August 30, 2016

WhatsApp and Facebook data sharing – still questions to be answered

August 19, 2016

David Anderson publishes his Report of the Bulk Powers Review

August 9, 2016

Smart phones will not make banking safer

July 28, 2016

Privacy wins as Supreme Court knock down Scotland’s totalitarian Named Person Scheme

July 26, 2016

Deliver drone regulations before Amazon deliver parcels

July 22, 2016

Joint Committee on Human Rights sends the Counter Extremism Bill the way of the Dodo

July 21, 2016

Cybercrime affects 1 in 10 UK adults. Time to make yourself safe online

July 19, 2016

CJEU Advocate General opinion could rewrite IP Bill

July 14, 2016

Is cloud storage really right for Body Worn Cameras?

July 12, 2016

Not quite the very best: Pokemon Go causes a whirlwind of privacy issues

July 7, 2016

IOCCO report reveals truth behind secret Section 94

June 23, 2016

When delete doesn’t mean delete

June 20, 2016

Government committee supports custodial sentences for data breaches

June 3, 2016

Response to the JCHR’s report on the Investigatory Powers Bill

June 2, 2016

Another Council prepares to scrap CCTV

May 27, 2016

Biometrics Commissioner finds yet more problems

May 23, 2016

Counter-Extremism Bill: Leading civil liberties campaigners raise concerns with proposals

May 17, 2016

Are Body Worn Cameras really useful?

May 12, 2016

Even non-police agencies are misusing the Police National Computer

May 6, 2016

What we read this week – May

April 27, 2016

Buzzfeed – Impacts of the Investigatory Powers Bill

April 22, 2016

What we’ve been reading – April

April 6, 2016

Good security, bad security – all in a day’s work

April 1, 2016

What we’ve been reading – March

March 7, 2016

Three months overdue, where’s your strategy for biometrics, Home Office?

February 26, 2016

What we read this month – February

February 23, 2016

Councils halve spending on CCTV, but is this the lull before a new surveillance storm?

January 22, 2016

What we read this month – January

January 15, 2016

Uber’s new “Trip Experiences” – convenience at a cost?

January 12, 2016

Big Brother Watch sign letter calling on the Home Secretary to protect encryption

January 5, 2016

Security and privacy on the agenda at CES2016

December 8, 2015

Huffington Post – Investigatory Powers Bill

December 2, 2015

Launch of draft Investigatory Powers Bill Factsheets

November 6, 2015

CNN – Investigatory Powers Bill

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