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Respond to Government consultation on a social media ban

March 12, 2026 / Blog

The Telegraph – A social media ban for youngsters won’t actually work, but it will destroy vital freedoms

January 19, 2026 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Winvisible campaigner holding sign: DWP stop snooping on the poor

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

facial recognition sign

The Spectator – The sinister rise of facial-recognition Britain

December 4, 2025 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces

Facial recognition cameras on a lamp post in Croydon

Conservative home – Facial recognition won’t stop knife crime, but it will erode our rights and freedoms

November 13, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Lowgate Post Office, Hull

Big Issue – UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped

October 25, 2025 / BankSpying Blog Opinion Pieces

no2digitalid campaign cover

City A.M. – What are the civil liberties implications of a digital ID?

October 1, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

Man with numbers projected

The National – Digital ID system is a serious threat to civil liberties

September 28, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

Starmer Brit Card

CapX – Labour’s ‘Britcard’ will leave us less free – and less British

September 26, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

keir starmer in downing street

Computer Weekly – Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’

September 23, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

national identity card

What the UK’s worst data breaches say about Government plans for a digital ID system

September 20, 2025 / Blog

Mark Zuckerburg and Elon Musk

Five things you need to know about the Online Safety Act

September 16, 2025 / Blog

Right - Rebecca Vincent and Left - Keir Starmer

The Times – Digital ID scheme would threaten privacy rights

September 10, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

age gated tweet

The Critic – The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act

August 29, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces

notting hill

City A.M. – Notting Hill Carnival: The Met is writing its own rules for live facial recognition

August 13, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Apple face id screen

UnHerd – Big Tech could be UK’s last hope against Online Safety Act

August 9, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces

Tony Blair

The Standard – Think digital IDs seem harmless? This is why you’re wrong

August 5, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

DSIT Secretary of State Peter Kyle

LabourList – ‘Labour can’t ignore the Online Safety Act’s harms ‒ it must act to fix them’

August 2, 2025 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces

Police standing

LBC – When cameras take over policing, innocent people pay the price

July 31, 2025 / Blog FacialRec Opinion Pieces

Digital ID

City AM – Beware BritCard. Digital ID will turn Britain into a papers, please society

June 24, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

Computer says no

Computer says no: Impact of automated decision-making on human life

June 8, 2025 / Blog

A bunch of change

City AM – Passing the Public Authorities Bill will hand away Brits’ privacy rights

May 12, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

digital id check

City AM – Labour’s digital ID by the backdoor will be a honey pot for hackers

May 7, 2025 / Blog digitalid Opinion Pieces

Met police officer on bike

City AM – Murder prediction tools and Whatsapp arrests, is Black Mirror already here?

April 25, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Carer against mass bank spying powers

As a carer, I’m outraged by the Government’s mass bank spying powers

April 25, 2025 / BankSpying Blog

Met police

Big Issue – Labour wants to use ‘Minority Report’ AI to predict murder. This could have chilling consequences

April 19, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

surveillance

There is No Safe Breaking of Encryption

April 11, 2025 / Blog

facial recognition cameras

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

Royal Courts of Justice London

UnHerd – UK Government hushes up its Apple data grab

March 15, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

facial recognition camera

Computer Weekly – Everything, everywhere, all at once: automated decision-making in public services

February 26, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

The Telegraph – Apple removing iCloud encryption will only be the start. The Home Office must think again

February 22, 2025 / Blog Opinion Pieces

Big Brother Watch press release

Help us improve our website

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

City A.M. – The Notebook: Labour’s Data Bill could open the floodgates to AI. Why is no one talking about it?

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 AM notebook screenshot

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

Big Brother Watch press release

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

The Telegraph – Facial recognition at airports might sound convenient for travellers – but it is putting us at risk

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

Big Brother Watch press release

Tell us what you think of us

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

Big Brother Watch response

Big Brother Watch responds to publication of the new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

March 8, 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

Suella Braverman_stock_photo

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 response

Big Brother Watch’s response to the Government’s implementation of Plan B

December 8, 2021 / Blog

The Telegraph – Latest round of Government diktat is exactly how politicians intoxicated with power want it to be

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

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

October 22, 2021 / Blog

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

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

September 23, 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

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

June 1, 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

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

March 26, 2021 / Blog

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

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

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

Big Brother Watch and Article 19 ask Google about search results

October 13, 2020 / Blog

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

October 7, 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

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

September 10, 2020 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage

Stop Facial Recognition Fund

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

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?

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

August 5, 2019 / Blog Opinion Pieces

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August 23, 2019
Regulation would be a life raft for live facial recognition — we need a ban

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?

July 23, 2019
Are China’s facial recognition trials really the example the Met police want to follow? (openDemocracy)

June 14, 2019
Police drop Experian profiling tool following Big Brother Watch exposé

May 17, 2019
Facial recognition cameras are eroding our civil liberties. We must stop them before it’s too late

January 21, 2019
Universal Credit, benefits and automated risk scores – are you affected?

January 17, 2019
Fighting For Our Freedoms in 2019

December 10, 2018
Free speech on campus is under threat – and the Government’s Prevent scheme poses one of the greatest risks

November 8, 2018
Privacy is Power

November 7, 2018
The UK’s poorest are put at risk by automated welfare decisions

October 23, 2018
Why you should be worried about police mass surveillance of shoppers at the Trafford Centre

August 10, 2018
The public execution of Infowars is dangerous and counterproductive

July 30, 2018
No – We Still Don’t Want ID Cards

July 6, 2018
We’ve got to stop the Met Police’s dangerously authoritarian facial recognition surveillance

June 24, 2018
5 million biometric IDs by the back door – HMRC’s voice IDs, your rights and the law

May 15, 2018
Police Facial Recognition Is An Authoritarian And Oppressive Surveillance Tool

April 19, 2018
Misleading, incompetent and authoritarian: the Home Office’s defence of facial recognition

April 6, 2018
A Closer Look at Experian Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Durham Police

March 23, 2018
How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? What is included – and what isn’t?

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 16, 2018
We know why Alexa is laughing

March 14, 2018
We Must Protect Our Rights From Automated Decisions

March 5, 2018
New data protection laws – do they really protect us?

January 10, 2018
The surveillance state in 2018

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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