PoliticsHome – Privacy campaigners warn a UK CBDC could spell the end of privacy
November 29, 2023 / Press Coverage
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Wired – Facial recognition is being used by online sleuths on unidentified bodies
November 15, 2023 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
Wired – Police use of “highly intrusive” facial recognition tech sweeping the UK
November 9, 2023 / Press Coverage
Metro – Government plans to monitor bank accounts of Britons receiving benefits
November 6, 2023 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Two-thirds of people on facial recognition watchlist were not wanted for arrest
October 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Government apologises after “counter disinformation” unit spread misinformation
October 27, 2023 / Press Coverage
Evening Standard – Met police use facial recognition surveillance on football fans
October 27, 2023 / Press Coverage
BBC – 65 parliamentarians have joined a call to stop facial recognition
October 7, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Argus – Sussex Police using drones to monitor students at night
September 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
Biometric Update – 180 civil society organisations and experts call for a global stop to facial recognition
September 27, 2023 / Press Coverage
i News – Psychiatric wards using 24-hour video surveillance
September 26, 2023 / Press Coverage
i News – Spike in the use of retrospective facial recognition sparks privacy concerns
September 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – MPs call on the Government to suspend the Counter “Disinformation” Unit
September 11, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Campaigners slam Met chief’s enthusiasm for facial recognition
September 11, 2023 / Press Coverage
Sky News – Home Office pushes for expanded police use of facial recognition
September 5, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – The Government is blocking information about bias in the welfare system
September 3, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Observer – Damning evidence shows Minister secretly lobbied the independent data regulator to favour Facewatch
September 2, 2023 / Press Coverage
BBC – Campaigners say facial recognition is “not an efficient crime fighting tool”
August 1, 2023 / Press Coverage
Observer – Home Office officials chalked up secret plans to expand facial recognition use in shops
July 30, 2023 / Press Coverage
PR Week – Spy agencies teamed up with the UK Government’s Counter “Disinformation” Unit
July 27, 2023 / Press Coverage
The New York Times – Orwellian facial recognition technology being used across stores in the UK
June 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Caroline Lucas MP included in a ‘disinformation’ report for criticising Covid policies
June 19, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – The Gov’t made ‘hourly contact’ with social media firms
June 13, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – More than half of the posts flagged for removal by the Government did not breach Twitter’s rules
June 10, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Secretive Government units targeted lockdown critics
June 2, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Economist – the Public Order Act is authoritarian & “inherently censorious”
May 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Campaigners angered by Chris Philp’s plans to expand facial recognition use behind closed doors
May 16, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Britain is sleepwalking into a Beijing-style surveillance nightmare
May 9, 2023 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
iNews – The Home Office & Met Police are using hacking software to download data without owners’ consent
May 1, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – MPs and rights groups call on Frasers Group to stop using live facial recognition in stores
April 24, 2023 / Press Coverage
ITV News – Live facial recognition tech will turn us into WALKING ID CARDS
April 6, 2023 / Press Coverage TV Radio Videos
The Guardian – Campaigners slam use of ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition tech in policing
April 5, 2023 / Press Coverage
iNews – Tesco’s Clubcard scheme asks shoppers to trade personal data for discounts
March 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Sadiq Khan is giving Met Police access to ANPR cameras
March 23, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Tesco commits to removing rights-abusing CCTV cameras from all stores
March 20, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Sports Direct likely used facial recognition on millions of shoppers’ faces
March 12, 2023 / Press Coverage
TechMonitor – Data Protection Bill: A “bonfire of safeguards” campaigners say
March 9, 2023 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Hikvision CCTV cameras discovered at royal Sandringham estate & five Government sites
March 4, 2023 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – Chinese state-owned surveillance tech found being used on British military sites
February 25, 2023 / Press Coverage
Express – No surprise Tony Blair still envisages such an undemocratic ID system
February 22, 2023 / Blog Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Daily Mail – UK finance giants invest millions in CCP-owned surveillance company
February 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
BBC Wales – Welsh police forces freeze the purchase of Hikvision cameras
February 16, 2023 / Press Coverage
TalkTV – The UK digital pound could be the most serious incursion on the public’s privacy
February 7, 2023 / Press Coverage TV Radio
iNews – Supermarkets use loyalty card data to surveil customers
February 4, 2023 / Press Coverage
openDemocracy – Security officials at the State of London Debate ‘spied on’ environmental campaigners
February 3, 2023 / Press Coverage
TRIGGERnometry – Revealed: The Government’s secretive political surveillance program
February 1, 2023 / Press Coverage Videos
TalkTV – Government surveilled journalists and politicians critical of government policy
January 30, 2023 / Press Coverage TV Radio Videos
Daily Mail – 77th Brigade spied on lockdown critics
January 28, 2023 / Press Coverage
Context by Reuters – The threat to privacy posed by online age verification laws
January 18, 2023 / Press Coverage
Coda Story – Southern Co-op scans the faces of shoppers, holding their biometric data for years
January 11, 2023 / Press Coverage
The Times – 4,000 Airbnb property owners install intrusive noise monitoring devices
December 29, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Times – Hikvision given privileged access to UK business crime data
December 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Times – Are body cameras the answer to protecting nurses against assault?
December 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Met police unlawfully spied on children at London climate strike
December 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Chinese state-owned surveillance company launches sinister ethnicity recognition tech while facing UK ban
December 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Government ceases to install Hikvision cameras
November 24, 2022 / Press Coverage
Biometric Update: legal opinion suggests thermal surveillance is highly likely to be unlawful
November 22, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Campaigners call on Government to urgently pause anti-protest Bill after journalists’ arrests
November 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Channel 4 – Human rights abusing surveillance tech used by at least 11 police forces in the UK
November 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
BBC – Pimeyes, a facial “search engine” could be used by stalkers
November 8, 2022 / Press Coverage
Edinburgh Live – Edinburgh City Council commits to removing human rights abusing CCTV cameras
November 2, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Civil liberties organisations demand scrapping the Public Order Bill
November 1, 2022 / Press Coverage
Vice – Data Brokers Are Tracking Millions of UK Phones To Place Hyper-Personalised Billboard Ads
October 14, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Republican demonstrators arrested at recent public events
September 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Fourteen groups call on new Met Police chief to end facial recognition
September 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
Independent – Lengthy list of demands given to new Home Secretary, Suella Braverman
September 6, 2022 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Are we sleepwalking into Big Brother Britain?
September 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Police use stop and search powers to disproportionately target protesters, figures reveal
August 18, 2022 / Press Coverage
Scottish Daily Express – Police Scotland looking into ‘Big Brother’ face scan cameras
August 9, 2022 / Press Coverage
Gizmodo – Facial recognition watches to be used to surveil convicted migrants
August 5, 2022 / Press Coverage
BBC – Big Brother Watch files legal challenge with the ICO against Southern Co-op’s use of facial recognition systems
July 26, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – It’s high time for the police to finally stop recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’
July 22, 2022 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
The Daily Mail – 36,420 individuals were scanned in a Live Facial Recognition trial run by the MET police
July 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
politics.co.uk – Director of Big Brother Watch explains why smart devices are an invasion of our privacy
July 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
Evening Standard – MET police deploy Live Facial Recognition systems in Oxford Circus
July 15, 2022 / Press Coverage
BBC – 67 MPs and Lords call for a nationwide ban on Hikvision and Dahua surveillance technology
July 4, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – DWP announces decision to remove Hikvision cameras
June 26, 2022 / Press Coverage
AP News – UK govt orders extradition of Julian Assange
June 17, 2022 / Press Coverage
Our statement on the Assange extradition
June 17, 2022 / Press Coverage Press Releases
UnHerd – ‘Health Misinformation’: the latest addition to the Online Safety Bill
June 16, 2022 / Blog Press Coverage
Independent – Policing Bill will increase violence against women warn campaigners
June 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – How Beijing’s surveillance power crept onto UK streets
May 30, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Economist – The Online Safety Bill could change the internet as we know it
May 25, 2022 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition firm Clearview AI fined £7.5M
May 23, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Amazon’s AI cameras ‘excessive, intrusive and creepy’
May 22, 2022 / Press Coverage
City A.M. – Clearview AI forced to restrict sales of facial recognition
May 16, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Big B̷r̷o̷t̷h̷e̷r̷ Person is amending your speech
April 23, 2022 / Press Coverage
IPVM – Big Brother Watch protests outside Hikvision convention
April 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
Politico – Inside Britain’s (opaque) Counter Disinformation Unit
April 4, 2022 / Press Coverage
Guido Fawkes – Cressida Dick called out on faulty Live Facial Recognition deployment
March 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facebook blocks contentious comments made by Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner amid censorship row
March 11, 2022 / Press Coverage
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 Guardian – Anonymous users could face limited communications on social media
February 25, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Age-gating the internet ‘a privacy minefield’, campaigners say
February 13, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Times – CCTV implicated in human rights abuses being used across the UK public sector
February 7, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – MPs sign cross-party pledge demanding review of Covid fines
February 2, 2022 / Press Coverage
Sky News – Covid pass Legal challenge launched against Welsh Government
January 19, 2022 / Press Coverage
IPVM – Co-op supermarkets using facial recognition and chinese state-funded technology
January 17, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – Could the Policing Bill suppress eco protesters?
January 16, 2022 / Press Coverage
HR World – IKEA’s no vaccine, no sick pay policy could prove to be divisive
January 12, 2022 / Press Coverage
The Independent – A third of of Covid prosecutions were unlawful, official review finds
December 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Independent – Civil Liberties campaign group threatens Government with legal action over Covid passes
December 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Labour urged to vote down ‘draconian’ Policing Bill amendments
December 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Southern Co-op expands use of ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition technology
December 3, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Twitter to censor ‘Media of Private Individuals’ without their permission
November 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – Amendments to the Government’s Policing Bill make ‘locking on’ a crime
November 29, 2021 / Press Coverage
TalkRadio – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales
November 11, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
The Guardian – Police consider use of drones that film from 1,500ft
October 29, 2021 / Press Press Coverage
The Times – BP used private intelligence service to spy on peaceful climate campaigner
October 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
New Statesman – Are anonymous social media accounts to blame for online hate?
October 21, 2021 / Press Coverage
FT – UK school canteens introduce facial recognition cameras
October 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
Spectator – Why is YouTube silencing David Davis?
October 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – New app allows women to be monitored by CCTV on walk home
October 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Scottish Sun – Scottish Government accused of becoming “factory for authoritarian Covid rules”
September 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
WIRED – Met Police splashing out on facial recognition tech
September 28, 2021 / Press Coverage
Guardian – NHS app using undisclosed companies to inspect facial data
September 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Scottish Sun – Big Brother Watch writes to the SNP urging them to stop ‘discriminatory and unethical’ vaccine passports
September 16, 2021 / Press Coverage
PoliticsHome – Labour and Conservatives face backlash over Covid pass plans
September 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – NHS app storing facial verification data with private firm iProov
September 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
Morning Star – Government increasingly using sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour (study)
September 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – Government’s Online Safety Bill will give tech firms ‘right to spy on us’
September 5, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – 90 rights groups sign open letter to Apple urging the company to drop its surveillance plans
August 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Police guidance on facial recognition criticised by rights groups
August 17, 2021 / Press Coverage
i News – UK police forces experimenting with retrospective facial recognition technology
August 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Secretive algorithms screening millions of welfare claimants
July 20, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Vaccine passport contractor says they could be ‘redeployed’ as national ID card
July 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
Politico – Online Safety Bill raises free speech concerns say civil liberties NGOs
June 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – Protest restrictions in Policing Bill breach human rights
June 22, 2021 / Press Coverage
i News – Gov’t accused of introducing national ID cards via ‘backdoor’ after Covid Pass contract
June 21, 2021 / Press Coverage
Morning Star – Met Police ‘misrepresented Covid rules’ against protesters
June 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Deliveroo drivers can be trained to detect crimes
June 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
Evening Standard – “I will not let police be subjected to trial by social media” says Priti Patel
June 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – NHS data grab plans scrapped after widespread backlash over privacy concerns
June 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
TRIGGERnometry – Your Government is Spying on You
June 2, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse
May 28, 2021 / Press Coverage
LBC – Stop and search debate reignited following the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death
May 25, 2021 / Press Coverage
Independent – GCHQ’s bulk interception was unlawful ECHR rules
May 25, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Millions of phones tracked to analyse behavioural change after vaccination
May 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
Flagging of ‘high-risk’ FOI requests to Met Police creates “chilling affect”
May 18, 2021 / Press Coverage
talkRADIO – Online Safety Bill presents unprecedented threat to free speech
May 13, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio Uncategorised
Daily Mail – Government’s Online Safety Bill could create ‘state-backed censorship’
May 12, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Lifting of ‘hug’ ban underlines confusion over Covid restrictions
May 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
Politico – Upcoming Online Safety Bill sparks free speech concern from MPs
April 30, 2021 / Press Coverage
talkRADIO – Covid passes + facial recognition = ID cards on steroids
April 21, 2021 / Press Coverage TV Radio
New Statesman – Interview with Silkie Carlo on how Covid-19 has accelerated the surveillance state
April 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
Telegraph – Drinkers will have to prove they have registered with Test and Trace as pubs reopen
April 8, 2021 / Press Coverage
Mail Online – Children warned past Tweets could harm their future
April 5, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
The Guardian – Covid certificates planned as early December leaked documents reveal
April 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – Covid pass could be used by grandparents to screen birthday party guests
April 3, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC News – More than 70 MPs oppose “divisive” Covid passports
April 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – You can travel to your second home at Easter but the goverment warns against it
March 23, 2021 / Press Coverage
MPs call for protest exemption to lockdown law
March 20, 2021 / Press Coverage
Left Foot Forward – The Coronavirus Act’s threat to Civil Liberties
March 16, 2021 / Press Coverage
MailOnline – Privacy campaigners voice opposition to Home Office tests on tracking browsing history
March 12, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
iNews – Free speech NGOs pen letter to government opposing the Online Harms Bill
March 11, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – ‘Till-less’ Amazon Fresh store opens in London
March 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Times – Hundreds of unlawful lockdown prosecutions may be missed from review
March 2, 2021 / Press Coverage
Reuters – Vaccine passports: Are they worth the discrimination and privacy concerns?
March 1, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Vaccine certifications currently being considered by UK Parliament
February 24, 2021 / Press Coverage
Guardian – Vaccine passports and tests to aid reopening of UK economy
February 22, 2021 / Press Coverage
iNews – Vaccine passports raising privacy and discrimination concerns
February 19, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Telegraph – ‘VACCINE PASSPORTS UNDERMINE OUR VALUES’
February 19, 2021 / Opinion Pieces Press Coverage
Reuters – Half of London councils using Uighur-linked surveillance systems
February 18, 2021 / Press Coverage
DAILY MAIL – 13,000 FACE SCANS LEAD TO JUST ONE ARREST BY MET POLICE
February 12, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – £10,000 fines for breaking lockdown restrictions criticised by civil liberites groups
February 10, 2021 / Press Coverage
Daily Mail – Facebook’s Covid ‘misinformation’ causes freedom of speech concern
February 9, 2021 / Press Coverage
BBC – Amazon place AI cameras monitoring drivers inside vans
February 4, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Sociable – WHO discourage vaccine passports for international travel
January 20, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Guardian – Vaccine Passports: A Potential Threat to Privacy?
January 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
YorkMix – North Yorkshire Police receive criticism over Covid policing
January 15, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Portsmouth News – Facewatch tech used to catch potential shoplifters in 18 Portsmouth stores
January 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
The Sun – Drones used to survey Hampshire citizens breaking covid regulations
January 14, 2021 / Press Coverage
Evening Express – Recent appeal to NPCC over ableism towards those with mask exemptions
January 13, 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
Independent – The complex task of disputing Covid fines
January 11, 2021 / Press Coverage Uncategorised
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
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
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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