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Big Brother Watch calls for immediate end to Government’s plan to develop a murder prediction tool

April 9, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Rights groups and academics warn Home Secretary of law enforcement risks in data bill.

April 2, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch condemns Asda’s facial recognition trial in Greater Manchester

March 31, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch condemns unregulated and permanent use of live facial recognition in Croydon.

March 24, 2025 / Press Releases

Privacy and free expression groups urge tribunal to make Apple encryption hearing public

March 13, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch Responds to Facial Recognition Powers in New Crime Bill

February 26, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch Response to Apple Removing Protections from UK Customers

February 21, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch condemns UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff

February 19, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch Responds to Members of Congress Slamming UK Encryption Order

February 13, 2025 / Press Releases

UK Govt is ordering Apple to break encryption

Big Brother Watch response to the Government ordering Apple to let them spy on users’ messages

February 7, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to intrusive powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error & Recovery) Bill

January 22, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to proposals for a GOV.UK Wallet

January 21, 2025 / Press Releases

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Big Brother Watch Responds to Risky Age Verification Measures Online

January 16, 2025 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Welsh police forces launching Operator Initiated Facial Recognition app

December 13, 2024 / Press Releases

Privacy campaigners raise concerns over Government’s new Data Bill

October 24, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to publication of Government’s Employment Rights Bill

October 10, 2024 / EmployeeSnooping Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Press Release: Big Brother Watch response to stabbing during Croydon facial recognition deployment

October 7, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch Responds to Keir Starmer’s Bank Spying Plans

September 24, 2024 / BankSpying Press Releases

Big Brother Watch Responds to Prime Minister’s Plan for Increased Use of Facial Recognition

August 1, 2024 / Press Releases

UK data watchdog finds Essex school’s use of facial recognition to be unlawful

July 23, 2024 / FacialRec Press Releases

Islington Council vote to ban live facial recognition

July 12, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Landmark legal challenges launched against facial recognition after police and retailer misidentifications

May 24, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

270,000 people sign petitions urging Government to “stop bank spying” in response to new surveillance powers

May 14, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Welfare bank spying powers a sledgehammer to crack a nut say campaigners

May 13, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

MPs and peers call on Government to drop new welfare bank spying plans

April 22, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Government’s new bank spying powers “breach privacy rights”, warn lawyers

April 17, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Government facial recognition plans

April 10, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch responds to £230 million for facial recognition announced in budget

March 6, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Government CBDC plans

January 25, 2024 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

CBDCs are “a disaster for privacy”: The Government Must Listen To Warnings From Around The World And Rethink The Digital Pound

November 29, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to the King’s Speech

November 7, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Government apologises after “counter disinformation” unit spread misinformation about journalist to UK and US governments

October 27, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch response to Met Police using facial recognition in shops

October 19, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

65 parliamentarians call for “immediate stop” to live facial recognition surveillance

October 6, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Government plans to create a giant facial recognition database out of passport photos

October 2, 2023 / Press Releases

180+ tech experts call for global stop to facial recognition surveillance

September 26, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch slams Home Office meddling in private facial recognition probe

September 3, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Government plans to expand facial recognition

August 30, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Facial recognition expansion would align UK with Russia and China say campaigners

August 1, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Serious questions for Home Office Ministers over facial recognition lobbying

July 29, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch responds to Northamptonshire Police’s plans to use live facial recognition at Silverstone

July 6, 2023 / Press Releases

Caroline Lucas MP logged by secretive government “disinformation” unit

June 18, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to Met Police use of live facial recognition at Trooping the Colour

June 16, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

New report says Government should “urgently stop live facial recognition” in the UK

May 23, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Use of facial recognition surveillance at Beyonce gig an outrage say campaigners

May 17, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch responds to South Wales Police’s use of Live Facial Recognition

May 12, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to the installation of Hikvision cameras along the Coronation parade route

May 5, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Met Police considering using Live Facial Recognition at the Coronation

May 3, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Parliamentarians and rights groups call on Frasers Group to drop facial recognition cameras

April 24, 2023 / Press Releases Uncategorised

Big Brother Watch responds to NPL’s report on the use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement

April 5, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Chinese spy balloon stunt appears outside Parliament

February 23, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague calling for a new digital ID scheme

February 22, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Defence Secretary Admits 77th Brigade Tasked to “UK Disinformation”

February 2, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Inside Whitehall’s Ministry of Truth – How secretive “anti-misinformation” teams conducted mass political monitoring

January 29, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch responds to new Government anti-protest proposals

January 16, 2023 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Online Safety Bill revives junked policy – Big Brother Watch comments

November 29, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch calls for Government to expand protection from Chinese state-owned CCTV

November 24, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Online Safety Bill a threat to human rights warn campaigners

November 16, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Rights groups call on Government to rethink Public Order Bill after journalists’ arrests

November 12, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch press release

Big Brother Watch files legal complaint against facial recognition “search engine”, PimEyes

November 8, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch releases new report: ‘The Streets Are Watching: How Billboards Are Spying On You’

October 12, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch files legal complaint against Co-op’s “Orwellian” facial recognition

July 26, 2022 / Press Releases

MPs call on government to ban Chinese CCTV in the UK

July 4, 2022 / Press Releases

DWP agrees to remove Chinese surveillance cameras from Department buildings

June 27, 2022 / Press Releases

Statement on Cheshire Police facial recognition

June 17, 2022 / Press Releases

Our statement on the Assange extradition

June 17, 2022 / Press Coverage Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to £7.5m Clearview AI fine by the ICO

May 23, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to publication of the Online Safety Bill

March 17, 2022 / Press Releases

Cressida Dick challenged by campaigners in botched facial recognition photo op

March 11, 2022 / Press Releases

Facebook removes Boris Johnson’s controversial statements

March 11, 2022 / Press Releases

Covid justice crisis: MPs, rights groups and lawyers call for urgent review of all Covid fines and prosecutions

February 2, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch issues legal claim against Welsh Ministers over “unevidenced” Covid Pass scheme

January 19, 2022 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to new government anti-encryption campaign

January 18, 2022 / Press Releases

BIG BROTHER WATCH LAUNCHES LEGAL CHALLENGE TO ENGLAND COVID PASS SCHEME

December 24, 2021 / Press Releases

Co-op doubles ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition cameras in supermarkets

December 2, 2021 / Press Releases

Rights groups urge Stormont: drop Covid pass plans

November 26, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch calls for a vote on “draconian” Covid passes in Northern Ireland

November 23, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Welsh Covid passes

November 9, 2021 / Press Releases

YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

October 14, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to Ring doorbell ruling

October 13, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch broadcasts Ministers’ vaccine passport denials across Westminster

September 8, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch campaign to stop Covid passes projected onto Parliament

September 6, 2021 / Press Releases

Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners

September 5, 2021 / Press Releases

Councils’ “hidden algorithms” profile millions on benefits, Big Brother Watch investigation finds

July 20, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch questions legality of Wembley vaccine passport trial

June 11, 2021 / Press Releases

UK mass surveillance found unlawful by Europe’s highest human rights court

May 25, 2021 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to the Government’s Online Safety Bill

May 12, 2021 / Press Releases

70+ MPs launch cross-party campaign against COVID passes

April 2, 2021 / Press Releases

Rights and democracy groups challenge political leafleting “ban”

February 19, 2021 / Press Releases

Co-op facial recognition supermarkets revealed

January 14, 2021 / Press Releases

Rights groups warn “disabled people will bear the brunt” of police crackdown on mask rules

January 13, 2021 / Press Releases

Covid Police Fines Misused Warn Big Brother Watch and Liberty

November 20, 2020 / Press Releases

NEWS: We’ve joined 20 rights groups to tell MPs to scrap the Coronavirus Act

September 27, 2020 / Press Releases

The dire public health consequence of ignoring test and trace privacy concerns

September 24, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s Statement: This new approach to contact tracing is based on exclusion, criminal sanctions & police enforcement

September 18, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s Statement: ‘We will see cases where people’s personal data is hoarded, lost and misused’

September 9, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response to Court of Appeal judgment in Dr Bridges’ challenge to live facial recognition

August 11, 2020 / Press Releases

Campaigners demand review of all lockdown fines

July 1, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response — UK drops centralised contact tracing app

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch responds to ICO’s investigation on mobile phone extractions

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

RAPE CASES DROPPED OVER DIGITAL STRIP SEARCH REFUSALS

June 18, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch tells airports to drop thermal surveillance [press release]

June 3, 2020 / Press Releases

RIGHTS GROUPS CALL FOR URGENT REVIEW OF CORONAVIRUS FINES

May 21, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch review reveals “staggering incompetence” in use of emergency powers and demands lockdown exit strategy

April 28, 2020 / Press Releases

Campaigners raise free expression concerns with Facebook, YouTube and DCMS

April 16, 2020 / Press Releases

“Two Years Is Too Long” for “Draconian” Coronavirus Bill, Warn MPs & Rights Groups

March 23, 2020 / Press Releases

EMERGENCY CORONAVIRUS BILL “MOST DRACONIAN POWERS IN PEACE-TIME BRITAIN”

March 19, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response — Emergency bill outline now published

March 18, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s response to the COVID-19 emergency and human rights

March 16, 2020 / Press Releases

Facial recognition surveillance in central London

February 20, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch’s comment on plans for Ofcom to police social media

February 12, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to Met’s first operational facial recognition deployment

February 10, 2020 / Press Releases

Big Brother Watch response to Met Police facial recognition announcement

January 24, 2020 / Press Releases

Police to target football fans with facial recognition cameras AGAIN

January 8, 2020 / Press Releases

Facial Recognition at Liberty Stadium: Big Brother Watch & Football Supporters’ Association Wales Comments

October 26, 2019 / Press Releases

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October 26, 2019
Facial Recognition at Liberty Stadium: Big Brother Watch & Football Supporters’ Association Wales Comments

October 4, 2019
Big Brother Watch statement on Government request to prevent Facebook encryption

September 18, 2019
MPs and rights groups call for “urgent stop” to facial recognition surveillance

September 4, 2019
Big Brother Watch response to judgment on South Wales Police use of facial recognition

August 16, 2019
Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK

July 23, 2019
Rights groups call for urgent reform on police “digital strip searches” of victims

July 10, 2019
UK mass surveillance challenged in Europe’s highest human rights court

July 3, 2019
Big Brother Watch response to “utterly damning” review of police facial recognition

May 3, 2019
Big Brother Watch response: HMRC forced to delete 5 million voice IDs

May 1, 2019
Campaigners urge Met to drop “disastrous” facial recognition

February 25, 2019
Campaigners denounce “abject failure” of police to reform digital investigations of rape victims

February 7, 2019
UK mass surveillance challenge will go to Europe’s highest human rights court

January 25, 2019
Tax Voice ID scheme faces backlash as thousands delete Voice IDs

December 14, 2018
Big Brother Watch response to planned police use of “authoritarian” facial recognition

November 11, 2018
Big Brother Watch calls for urgent investigation into demands for rape victims’ data

October 25, 2018
Joint statement on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018

September 13, 2018
UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark judgment

August 15, 2018
Big Brother Watch comment on the Met Police’s use of fingerprint scanners

July 25, 2018
Big Brother Watch Begins Landmark Legal Challenge to Police Use of Facial Recognition Surveillance

June 28, 2018
Big Brother Watch response to the Biometrics Strategy

June 28, 2018
Big Brother Watch response to Met use of facial recognition in Stratford, London

June 25, 2018
HMRC takes 5 million taxpayers’ Voice IDs without consent

June 14, 2018
Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Government and Met Police on “dangerously authoritarian” facial recognition cameras

May 22, 2018
Big Brother Watch’s statement on the Met Police’s stop on using facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

May 15, 2018
“Dangerous and inaccurate” police facial recognition exposed in new Big Brother Watch report

April 6, 2018
Police use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions

February 19, 2018
Local authorities face 19 million cyber attacks a year, investigation reveals

February 12, 2018
Big Brother Watch’s comment on the use of digital evidence in sexual offence prosecutions

February 12, 2018
Big Brother Watch comments on innocent people’s custody image deletion figures

January 15, 2018
Big Brother Watch’s comment on handover of 180,000 cancer patient records to tobacco industry-linked firm

January 8, 2018
Big Brother Watch’s comment on the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Annual Report

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