Financial News — “The surveillance industry is proving itself a grave risk to fundamental rights”
July 7, 2020 / Press Coverage
Media
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
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
The Guardian — “Rape victims are being systematically denied justice if they defend their data rights”
June 18, 2020 / Press Coverage
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
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
Digit — “thermal cameras are a lurch towards biosurveillance and pervasive health monitoring”
June 4, 2020 / Press Coverage
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The Guardian — Location Data Is Rarely “Anonymous”
March 20, 2020 / Press Coverage
The Guardian — Government must take action and stop police using facial recognition
March 12, 2020 / Press Coverage
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
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
First ‘operational’ use of facial recognition surveillance in Stratford, London
February 11, 2020 / Press Coverage
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
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
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
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
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
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