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The Portsmouth News – Facewatch tech used to catch potential shoplifters in 18 Portsmouth stores

January 14, 2021 / Press Coverage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

BBC Business Daily

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

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

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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

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

Surveilling journalists from inside their phones

December 4, 2019 / Press Coverage

Islington Tribune – Privacy scare over hidden cameras in school toilets

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

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

Metro – Facial recognition used at football match in Swansea

October 29, 2019 / Press Coverage

Holyrood – Scottish Bill proposes the creation of Biometrics Commissioner

Holyrood – Scottish Bill proposes the creation of Biometrics Commissioner

October 29, 2019 / Press Coverage

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January 17, 2020
BBC News // Social Media Data: Psychiatrists want companies to release details on site use

December 17, 2019
Evening Standard – London start-up develops facial recognition cameras that can read emotion

December 4, 2019
Surveilling journalists from inside their phones

December 2, 2019
Al Jazeera, Listening Post – Pegasus: Surveilling journalists from inside their phones

November 18, 2019
Islington Tribune – Privacy scare over hidden cameras in school toilets

November 18, 2019
France 24 – Creeping growth of face surveillance in UK

November 12, 2019
Telegraph – Chinese CCTV firm Hikvision used by NHS offers racial profiling

November 5, 2019
The Independent – ICO warns that facial recognition technology may have been used unlawfully

October 29, 2019
Metro – Facial recognition used at football match in Swansea

October 29, 2019
Holyrood – Scottish Bill proposes the creation of Biometrics Commissioner

October 23, 2019
The Guardian – A third of councils using unreliable algorithms to make welfare decisions

October 23, 2019
Daily Mail – Government scheme gives companies access to smart meter data

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

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 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 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
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 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 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
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
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 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

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 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 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 2, 2019
The Times – Big Brother Watch tells police to drop 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
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 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 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 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

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

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

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
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 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 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 9, 2018
BBC Radio 4 Law in Action – Facial Recognition Technology – Silkie Carlo

June 25, 2018
Mail on Sunday – HMRC takes 5 million taxpayers’ voice biometric IDs without consent

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 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 15, 2018
The Guardian – UK police use of facial recognition technology a failure, says report

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 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 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
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 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 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 13, 2018
The Register – On-the-spot fingerprint identity scanners

February 12, 2018
The Daily Mail – Number of custody image deletion requests miniscule

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 10, 2018
The Daily Mail & The Daily Express – ANPR cameras

January 8, 2018
The Register – The expanding surveillance state

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