The Guardian — “The incompetence and casual authoritarianism demonstrated by the Met police here is breathtaking”
November 28, 2020 / Press Coverage
Media
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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