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Inside the secret surveillance operation on WikiLeaks | Interview with editor-in-chief
EU | Apr 13 2025 14:0136
There is No Safe Breaking of Encryption
EU | Apr 11 2025 11:4314
Action alert: Respond to Police Scotland’s consultation on live facial recognition
EU | Apr 10 2025 09:227
Big Brother Watch calls for immediate end to Government’s plan to develop a murder prediction tool
EU | Apr 09 2025 05:178
Free speech in Britain is UNDER ATTACK
EU | Apr 08 2025 05:4143
Daily Mail – Scotland’s new digital identity system could “disadvantage millions”
EU | Apr 07 2025 12:018
The Guardian – Privacy rights groups brand new data laws as “Henry VIII powers”
EU | Apr 07 2025 11:417
Computer Weekly – Apple’s British customers’ privacy at ‘most risk’, Lords warn
EU | Apr 07 2025 11:173
BBC – UK Court rejects Home Office bid to hear Apple’s encryption case in secret
EU | Apr 07 2025 10:333
Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and Index on Censorship welcome UK court’s rejection of Home Office bid to hear Apple encryption case in secret
EU | Apr 07 2025 07:334
The Times – Police arrests for online speech a threat to free speech, campaigners warn
EU | Apr 07 2025 07:0911
ITV News – Asda faces public backlash against facial recognition trial
EU | Apr 07 2025 06:434
The Telegraph – Police forces are conducting facial recognition searches every two minutes
EU | Apr 07 2025 06:2210
🚨Facial recognition in your city centre
EU | Apr 03 2025 12:5722
Rights groups and academics warn Home Secretary of law enforcement risks in data bill.
EU | Apr 02 2025 11:229
Big Brother Watch condemns Asda’s facial recognition trial in Greater Manchester
EU | Mar 31 2025 09:098
City AM – Facial recognition cameras in Croydon should alarm all Londoners
EU | Mar 31 2025 06:439
😱 Wrongfully ARRESTED because of facial recognition!
EU | Mar 26 2025 14:2280
The Times – The Met to install permanent live facial recognition cameras
EU | Mar 26 2025 13:018
Monitor MPs’ bank accounts?
EU | Mar 24 2025 13:5721
Big Brother Watch condemns unregulated and permanent use of live facial recognition in Croydon.
EU | Mar 24 2025 08:4310
What no one is saying about the first city-wide facial recognition zone
EU | Mar 20 2025 13:4375
UnHerd – UK Government hushes up its Apple data grab
EU | Mar 18 2025 08:437
BBC News – Apple’s legal challenge must be open to public urge privacy groups
EU | Mar 18 2025 08:225
Computer Weekly – WhatsApp or Signal could be next if Apple loses encryption Tribunal case
EU | Mar 18 2025 08:2212
BBC News – Police advised to hide information about facial recognition use
EU | Mar 18 2025 07:4316
Privacy and free expression groups urge tribunal to make Apple encryption hearing public
EU | Mar 13 2025 10:433
This is straight out of BLACK MIRROR
EU | Mar 07 2025 15:2261
The Independent – Everybody’s bank accounts will be “pulled into the net of surveillance”, privacy rights expert warns
EU | Mar 05 2025 07:4311
Facial recognition FAIL
EU | Feb 28 2025 12:2237
The Telegraph – Driving licence photos could be used by police for facial recognition searches
EU | Feb 27 2025 09:0114
The Telegraph – Apple removing iCloud encryption will only be the start. The Home Office must think again
EU | Feb 27 2025 07:4914
Politics Home – Labour’s plans for digital ID cards pose a risk to marginalised groups
EU | Feb 27 2025 07:339
The Telegraph – Whitehall’s disinformation squad to use AI to identify “problematic” social media posts
EU | Feb 27 2025 07:1710
The Times – Labour’s bank spying plans will create a “two-tier society”
EU | Feb 27 2025 07:0111
Computer Weekly – Everything, everywhere, all at once: automated decision-making in public services
EU | Feb 27 2025 06:4916
Daily Mail – Cardiff city centre transformed into “an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance”
EU | Feb 27 2025 06:2519
City AM: Notebook – Digital IDs and biometric data: Welcome to Labour’s tech dystopia
EU | Feb 27 2025 05:2511
Big Brother Watch Responds to Facial Recognition Powers in New Crime Bill
EU | Feb 26 2025 10:4311
The UK is in the ranks with China & Russia
EU | Feb 22 2025 13:4944
Government wants to look at your private messages
EU | Feb 21 2025 13:4331
Big Brother Watch Response to Apple Removing Protections from UK Customers
EU | Feb 21 2025 11:2211
Big Brother Watch condemns UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff
EU | Feb 19 2025 06:4310
The Telegraph – US lawmakers challenge Government order to Apple as “foreign cyberattack”
EU | Feb 17 2025 08:437
Big Issue – Unreliable AI usage by DWP risks vulnerable people being treated as “guinea pigs”
EU | Feb 17 2025 08:227
👀DWP, stop plans for mass bank spying
EU | Feb 13 2025 13:0160
Big Brother Watch Responds to Members of Congress Slamming UK Encryption Order
EU | Feb 13 2025 08:4315
BBC – UK government orders Apple to comply with “unprecedented attack on privacy rights”
EU | Feb 10 2025 09:0914
🚨 Labour’s double standards EXPOSED
EU | Feb 09 2025 12:4388
Big Brother Watch response to the Government ordering Apple to let them spy on users’ messages
EU | Feb 07 2025 07:5715
What the Government won’t tell you about bank snooping plans
EU | Feb 06 2025 12:2259
Express – Over 220,000 people oppose proposed bank spying powers
EU | Feb 03 2025 12:018
Daily Mail – Labour’s double standards on welfare surveillance exposed
EU | Feb 03 2025 12:016
“Can we take your details?” People are covering their faces at facial recognition deployments
EU | Jan 30 2025 19:43659
Mail Online – Campaigns slam Government plans to create an “all-encompassing” digital ID wallet
EU | Jan 27 2025 05:0113
Big Issue – The Government’s proposals for mass bank spying are “an assault” on welfare
EU | Jan 23 2025 12:5714
BBC – Campaigners slam Government plans to spy on all bank accounts
EU | Jan 22 2025 12:257
BBC – You will need to prove your age to access certain websites from July
EU | Jan 22 2025 08:0916
The i Paper – Campaigners slam police plans to use odour & gait tracking tech
EU | Jan 22 2025 07:5710
LBC – DWP could take money from benefit recipients’ bank accounts
EU | Jan 22 2025 07:2511
Big Brother Watch response to intrusive powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error & Recovery) Bill
EU | Jan 22 2025 04:1711
Big Brother Watch responds to proposals for a GOV.UK Wallet
EU | Jan 21 2025 09:4314
Big Brother Watch Responds to Risky Age Verification Measures Online
EU | Jan 21 2025 07:2213
They’re using FACIAL RECOGNITION
EU | Jan 17 2025 14:01211
Big Brother Watch Responds to Risky Age Verification Measures Online
EU | Jan 16 2025 07:0116
Help us improve our website
EU | Jan 16 2025 06:057
UK CBDC = A solution in search of a problem
EU | Jan 07 2025 13:0127
Big Issue – DWP’s bank account spying plan is an attack on the poor. It must be scrapped in 2025
EU | Jan 06 2025 06:0521
⚠️Facial recognition in your local shop
EU | Dec 26 2024 13:4977
“This will be an ASSAULT on civil liberties”
EU | Dec 19 2024 14:5549
Shops’ use of live facial recognition – FAQs
EU | Dec 19 2024 05:0312
Censorship is RISING in the UK
EU | Dec 18 2024 15:5538
Police use of live facial recognition – FAQs
EU | Dec 18 2024 15:4715
The Guardian – Police are unlawfully retaining images of innocent people for facial recognition searches
EU | Dec 18 2024 04:4917
Computer Weekly – Met Police is challenged on its claim of getting community support for facial recognition
EU | Dec 18 2024 04:4910
City A.M. – The Notebook: Labour’s Data Bill could open the floodgates to AI. Why is no one talking about it?
EU | Dec 16 2024 06:2810
BBC – Welsh police forces introduce intrusive facial recognition app
EU | Dec 16 2024 06:2815
Big Brother Watch responds to Welsh police forces launching Operator Initiated Facial Recognition app
EU | Dec 13 2024 10:4718
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
EU | Dec 12 2024 14:0738
UnHerd – Britain Academic’s “shocking” collaboration with the CCP on surveillance technologies
EU | Dec 11 2024 07:0710
LBC – Want to balance the Met’s books, commissioner? Ditch facial recognition
EU | Dec 11 2024 06:498
Government Wants to Spy on Your Bank Account – We Must Stop Them
EU | Dec 05 2024 13:49201
Exposing £20,000,000 Tender for UK-Wide Facial Recognition Expansion
EU | Dec 02 2024 13:0234
The Guardian – £20,000,000 tender for UK-wide facial recognition technology has been uncovered
EU | Dec 02 2024 08:4814
Your air fryer could be spying on you
EU | Nov 29 2024 10:49247
The Times – UK data watchdog slammed by campaigners for taking a “conciliatory” position on Big Tech surveillance
EU | Nov 25 2024 12:149
City AM – Allison Pearson: The bar for criminality is rightly higher than ignorant tweets
EU | Nov 25 2024 10:4812
BBC – Police used facial recognition during the summer riots
EU | Nov 25 2024 10:2713
CCTV + Facial recognition possible?
EU | Nov 23 2024 08:0672
Privacy expert answers your facial recognition questions
EU | Nov 21 2024 13:4835
UK gym chain poised to remove facial recognition cameras from all branches
EU | Nov 18 2024 10:0619
The Mirror – MPs debate police use of facial recognition for the first time
EU | Nov 15 2024 06:3812
Daily Mail – Privacy under threat as ULEZ-style cameras expand across UK
EU | Nov 15 2024 06:0218
This shop is SCANNING your face
EU | Nov 14 2024 16:12578
Facial recognition in your local shop
EU | Nov 07 2024 12:0664
Weapons + AI = surveillance nightmare
EU | Nov 03 2024 13:48143
These “smart” glasses can use intrusive facial recognition
EU | Nov 01 2024 10:2755
The Spectator – Has your local shop blacklisted you?
EU | Oct 28 2024 12:2628
Forbes – A UK CBDC poses serious privacy risks
EU | Oct 28 2024 12:2617
Tortoise – Campaigners slam the Met Police’s use of facial recognition as “intrusive”
EU | Oct 28 2024 12:2614
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