Spectator – Online Safety Act is a censorial mess
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The Telegraph – The Government has grown too comfortable with censorship
August 24, 2026 / Blog
Telegraph – Sadiq Khan is joyfully expanding our surveillance state
August 21, 2026 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
August 5, 2026 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
The Government has grown too comfortable with censorship
June 22, 2026 / Blog NoPassports Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Labour’s spyware plan for phones is straight out of North Korea
June 11, 2026 / Blog NoPassports Opinion Pieces
Civil Liberties Risks to Watch For in the King’s Speech
May 12, 2026 / Blog
The Spectator – A social media ban for kids puts all our privacy at risk
April 27, 2026 / Blog NoPassports Opinion Pieces
The fight against facial recognition isn’t over – support the appeal
April 21, 2026 / Blog
Telegraph – Child safety is the smokescreen as the nanny state goes digital
April 15, 2026 / Blog NoPassports Opinion Pieces
Apple’s New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK
April 9, 2026 / Blog FreeSpeech NoPassports
Respond to Government consultation on a social media ban
March 12, 2026 / Blog
January 19, 2026 / Blog Opinion Pieces
What do the Government’s bank spying powers mean for me?
December 15, 2025 / BankSpying Blog
LBC – Ministers want a digital ID. They still can’t say what it will actually do
December 8, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The Spectator – The sinister rise of facial-recognition Britain
December 4, 2025 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
November 13, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
October 25, 2025 / BankSpying Blog Opinion Pieces
City A.M. – What are the civil liberties implications of a digital ID?
October 1, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The National – Digital ID system is a serious threat to civil liberties
September 28, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
CapX – Labour’s ‘Britcard’ will leave us less free – and less British
September 26, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
Computer Weekly – Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’
September 23, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
What the UK’s worst data breaches say about Government plans for a digital ID system
September 20, 2025 / Blog
Five things you need to know about the Online Safety Act
September 16, 2025 / Blog
The Times – Digital ID scheme would threaten privacy rights
September 10, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
The Critic – The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act
August 29, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
City A.M. – Notting Hill Carnival: The Met is writing its own rules for live facial recognition
August 13, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – Big Tech could be UK’s last hope against Online Safety Act
August 9, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
The Standard – Think digital IDs seem harmless? This is why you’re wrong
August 5, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
LabourList – ‘Labour can’t ignore the Online Safety Act’s harms ‒ it must act to fix them’
August 2, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces
LBC – When cameras take over policing, innocent people pay the price
July 31, 2025 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
City AM – Beware BritCard. Digital ID will turn Britain into a papers, please society
June 24, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
Computer says no: Impact of automated decision-making on human life
June 8, 2025 / Blog
City AM – Passing the Public Authorities Bill will hand away Brits’ privacy rights
May 12, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
City AM – Labour’s digital ID by the backdoor will be a honey pot for hackers
May 7, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces
City AM – Murder prediction tools and Whatsapp arrests, is Black Mirror already here?
April 25, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
As a carer, I’m outraged by the Government’s mass bank spying powers
April 25, 2025 / BankSpying Blog
April 19, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
There is No Safe Breaking of Encryption
April 11, 2025 / Blog
Action alert: Respond to Police Scotland’s consultation on live facial recognition
April 10, 2025 / Blog
City AM – Facial recognition cameras in Croydon should alarm all Londoners
March 25, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – UK Government hushes up its Apple data grab
March 15, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Computer Weekly – Everything, everywhere, all at once: automated decision-making in public services
February 26, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
February 22, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces
January 16, 2025 / Blog
Shops’ use of live facial recognition – FAQs
December 19, 2024 / Blog
Police use of live facial recognition – FAQs
December 18, 2024 / Blog
LBC – Want to balance the Met’s books, commissioner? Ditch facial recognition
December 11, 2024 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
December 9, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
City AM – Allison Pearson: The bar for criminality is rightly higher than ignorant tweets
November 25, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UK gym scraps facial recognition following our pressure
November 18, 2024 / Blog
The Spectator – Has your local shop blacklisted you?
October 26, 2024 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces
City AM – The Notebook: Starmer leading like a civil servant isn’t working
October 21, 2024 / BankSpying Blog
Spiked – Labour wants to spy on your bank accounts
October 8, 2024 / BankSpying Blog Opinion Pieces
City A.M. The Notebook: Labour is charting a dangerous course on free speech
September 10, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Free speech is dying online
August 29, 2024 / Blog MiniTruth Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – The Government’s sinister disinformation unit is threatening free speech again
August 7, 2024 / Blog MiniTruth Opinion Pieces
Shado – Not just Big Brother, but Little Brother too is a symbol of surveillance
August 5, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Live facial recognition: what to do if you are stopped by facial recognition cameras
July 18, 2024 / Blog
Write to your candidate to defend civil liberties | General Election 2024
June 4, 2024 / Blog
UnHerd – Government censorship unit sees 95% fall in ‘flagged’ online content
June 1, 2024 / Blog MiniTruth Opinion Pieces
Government’s secret counter-disinformation policies revealed
June 1, 2024 / Blog
The Telegraph – The next Horizon scandal will be even bigger
April 24, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – UK Government pushes for financial surveillance bill
March 19, 2024 / Blog
Are you being monitored at work?
February 6, 2024 / Blog EmployeeSnooping
Tell us about your workplace surveillance experience
February 6, 2024 / Blog
January 5, 2024 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Police using facial recognition to target protesters: find out if you’re on a watchlist
November 15, 2023 / Blog
City A.M. – We’ve had dangerous AI with us for decades, and never had a summit for racist algorithms
November 3, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces Uncategorised
The Telegraph – AI is not just a future problem – it’s already eroding our freedoms
November 2, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces
A guide to facial recognition at protests
August 2, 2023 / Blog
Live facial recognition: what to do if you are stopped by facial recognition cameras
July 12, 2023 / Blog
City A.M. – A digital pound can’t come with a trade-off for privacy
July 6, 2023 / Blog cbdc Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – Britcoin will bring in a new wave of financial censorship
June 30, 2023 / Blog cbdc Opinion Pieces
Update: Big Brother Watch’s complaint to the ICO on retailer facial recognition
June 28, 2023 / Blog
Fact checking the Government’s ‘fact sheet’ on the Counter Disinformation Unit
June 14, 2023 / Blog
May 24, 2023 / Blog
Understanding live facial recognition statistics
May 22, 2023 / Blog
The Telegraph – Britain is sleepwalking into a Beijing-style surveillance nightmare
May 9, 2023 / FacialRec Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Novara Media – Supermarket Loyalty Schemes Are Turning Privacy Into a Luxury
April 25, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Novara Media – Supermarket Loyalty Schemes Are Turning Privacy Into a Luxury
April 25, 2023 / Blog
Privacy matters: a guide to sending encrypted messages anonymously
April 19, 2023 / Blog
Biosurveillance, thermal cameras and your data rights
March 6, 2023 / Blog
Express – No surprise Tony Blair still envisages such an undemocratic ID system
February 22, 2023 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Guide: Respond to the consultation on the government’s digital ID verification system
February 21, 2023 / Blog
The Telegraph – It’s time to close the Government’s Ministry of Truth
January 30, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Ministry of Truth Freedom of Information Requests
January 29, 2023 / Blog
UnHerd – The Public Order Bill is a danger to protest rights
January 16, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – The Online Safety Bill revives ditched censorship plan
November 29, 2022 / Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – New Online Safety Bill gives too much power to Silicon Valley
November 29, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – Women’s safety: the latest attempt to sanitise CCTV
November 17, 2022 / Blog
The end of end-to-end encryption: how the Online Safety Bill threatens your right to privacy
October 21, 2022 / Blog
The Telegraph – The EU’s latest Orwellian move: collecting biometrics at its borders
October 17, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Billboards are spying on you: Protect yourself from phone trackers and location harvesting
October 12, 2022 / Blog
UnHerd – Suella Braverman’s Public Order Bill Cracks Down on Protest Rights
October 6, 2022 / Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – PayPal shuts down the Free Speech Union’s account
September 21, 2022 / Opinion Pieces
Online Safety Bill latest; what can we expect to happen next?
September 1, 2022 / Blog
The Telegraph – Non-crime hate incident reporting risks turning police into Big Brother
July 22, 2022 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Response to data law “reform” plans
June 18, 2022 / Blog
UnHerd – ‘Health Misinformation’: the latest addition to the Online Safety Bill
June 16, 2022 / Blog Press Coverage
The Telegraph – A cashless society is a greater surveillance state
June 6, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Britain’s new Censor’s Charter makes free speech on Twitter impossible
May 3, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – The Online Safety Bill makes a mockery of free speech
March 18, 2022 / Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Plans to ‘rein in’ big tech looks set to do precisely the opposite
March 3, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
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 Telegraph – Age-gating could be the vaccine passports of the internet
February 11, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – Chinese CCTV is coming to to a town near you
February 10, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Online Safety Bill: what the Government MUST do next
February 10, 2022 / Blog
UnHerd – BMJ stands up to Silicon valley fact checkers
January 27, 2022 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Big Brother Watch’s response to the Government’s implementation of Plan B
December 8, 2021 / Blog
November 30, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Telegraph – Austria’s precedent-setting lockdown is an assault on human rights
November 19, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
UnHerd – Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports?
October 22, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Big tech censorship threatens our democracy
October 17, 2021 / Blog
Spiked – Even MPs are being censored by Big Tech
October 15, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
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
How Covid passes urged a football fan to make a stand against his own sport
September 13, 2021 / Blog
Vaccine passports have already set us on a slippery slope
September 10, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Government Censorship Unit You’ve Never Heard of
September 6, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Discriminatory vaccine passports pose an even greater threat than ID cards
August 2, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
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
Big Brother Watch signs open letter to MPs to protect end-to-end encryption
June 14, 2021 / Blog
The Telegraph – Israel’s Green Pass sytem: A stark warning to the UK
May 27, 2021 / Blog
The UK risks becoming a world leader in online censorship
May 14, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Vaccine passports: the end of liberty as we know it
April 1, 2021 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Facebook’s new covid policy limits more than free speech – it limits free inquiry
March 12, 2021 / Blog
Save Online Speech Coalition writes to government opposing Online Safety Bill
March 11, 2021 / Blog
Britain’s fight against ID: from war IDs to vaccine passports
February 21, 2021 / Blog
The Telegraph – ‘VACCINE PASSPORTS UNDERMINE OUR VALUES’
February 19, 2021 / Opinion Pieces 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
Big Brother Watch & Liberty Send a Letter to the Met about Today’s Demonstrations in London
November 28, 2020 / Blog
BIG BROTHER WATCH AND LIBERTY WARN COVID FINES MUST BE URGENTLY REVIEWED
November 20, 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
Big Brother Watch letter to Metropolitan Police — Covid Regulations and Freedom of the Press
November 9, 2020 / Blog
November 9, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Parliamentary scrutiny is minimal as MPs vote to impose second national lockdown
November 6, 2020 / Blog
Big Brother Watch and Article 19 ask Google about search results
October 13, 2020 / Blog
The Coronavirus Act rebellion is a warning shot to our draconian Government
October 2, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Coronavirus Has Created A Crisis Of Over-Policing. Parliament Must Act Now – Before It’s Too Late
September 30, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces
September 10, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
August 5, 2020 / Blog
The Lockdown Amendments: Everything you Need to Know
June 8, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Big Brother Watch tells airports to drop thermal surveillance
June 3, 2020 / Blog
Have you been issued a lockdown fine under coronavirus laws? Contact us!
May 26, 2020 / Blog
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
Coronavirus Policing: What’s happening on the Isle of Man…?
May 1, 2020 / Blog
UK’s civil and political rights record under review: challenges of new digital technologies
March 12, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces
Tap & track: how shops use your card payments to link your in-store and online spending
December 10, 2019 / Blog
Regulation would be a life raft for live facial recognition — we need a ban
August 23, 2019 / Blog Opinion Pieces
The Times – Victims should not be subjected to digital strip searches
August 6, 2019 / Blog Opinion Pieces
City AM – Debate: Should you be worried about live facial recognition?
August 5, 2019 / Blog Opinion Pieces
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