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Big Brother Watch comments on plans for permanent facial recognition cameras on Oxford Street

August 12, 2026 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch comments on live facial recognition trial on London Underground

August 12, 2026 / Press Releases

ITV – Andy Burnham set to scrap digital ID scheme

July 19, 2026 / digitalid Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch comments on Sainsbury’s plans to roll out live facial recognition in 200 shops

June 30, 2026 / Press Releases

Telegraph – Sainsbury’s to expand live facial recognition use to 200 shops

June 30, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage

BBC – The Met Police push for a city-wide drone network

June 24, 2026 / Press Coverage

Live facial recognition cameras at London Bridge

Metro – 1 false alert, 0 matches by facial recognition cameras at London stations

June 24, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage

The Guardian – Fixed facial recognition cameras to be installed in West End

June 23, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage

facial recognition sign

Big Brother Watch responds to the expansion of fixed facial recognition cameras in London

June 23, 2026 / Press Releases

The Telegraph – Covid Inquiry buried evidence of state surveillance

June 20, 2026 / MiniTruth Press Coverage

The Guardian – Social media ban would demand a “papers, please” approach to get online, campaigners warn

June 15, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage

Starmer social media ban announcement

Daily Mail – Government announces social media ban for under-16s

June 15, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch responds to PM’s Social Media Ban announcement

June 15, 2026 / Press Releases

The Telegraph – Labour’s spyware plan for phones is straight out of North Korea

June 11, 2026 / Blog FreeSpeech Opinion Pieces

Metro – Sports Direct facial recognition error wrongly flags innocent woman as a thief

June 10, 2026 / FacialRec Press Coverage

Sign outside HMRC, London

The Telegraph – HMRC’s AI-powered surveillance plans spark Big Brother fears

June 9, 2026 / Press Coverage

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch response to PM’s announcement on introducing mandatory ID checks to use mobile phones

June 8, 2026 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch response to Facewatch’s plans to sell intrusive facial recognition tech to pharmacies

June 5, 2026 / Press Releases

The Times – Government to force tech companies to restrict phones

June 4, 2026 / FreeSpeech Press Coverage

Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves for PMQs

Daily Mail – Government spent over £650,000 Digital ID ads

May 26, 2026 / digitalid 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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