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‘My mum is “scared to go shopping alone” after facial recognition wrongly branded her a shoplifter’
June 6, 2025 / Press Releases
Big Brother Watch Urges Government to Reject New Digital ID Plan
June 6, 2025 / digitalid Press Releases
Asda faces legal complaint after “unlawful” facial recognition trial
May 21, 2025 / FacialRec Press Releases
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 welcomes UK court’s rejection of Home Office bid to hear Apple encryption case in secret
April 7, 2025 / Press Releases
Rights groups and academics warn Home Secretary of law enforcement risks in data bill.
April 2, 2025 / Press Releases
Big Brother Watch condemns Asda’s facial recognition trial in Greater Manchester
March 31, 2025 / Press Releases
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
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
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
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
Landmark legal challenges launched against facial recognition after police and retailer misidentifications
May 24, 2024 / Press Releases
270,000 people sign petitions urging Government to “stop bank spying” in response to new surveillance powers
May 14, 2024 / Press Releases
Welfare bank spying powers a sledgehammer to crack a nut say campaigners
May 13, 2024 / Press Releases
MPs and peers call on Government to drop new welfare bank spying plans
April 22, 2024 / Press Releases
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 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
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
Government apologises after “counter disinformation” unit spread misinformation about journalist to UK and US governments
October 27, 2023 / Press Releases
Big Brother Watch response to Met Police using facial recognition in shops
October 19, 2023 / Press Releases
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
Facial recognition expansion would align UK with Russia and China say campaigners
August 1, 2023 / Press Releases
Serious questions for Home Office Ministers over facial recognition lobbying
July 29, 2023 / Press Releases
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
New report says Government should “urgently stop live facial recognition” in the UK
May 23, 2023 / Press Releases
Use of facial recognition surveillance at Beyonce gig an outrage say campaigners
May 17, 2023 / Press Releases
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
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
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
Defence Secretary Admits 77th Brigade Tasked to “UK Disinformation”
February 2, 2023 / Press Releases
Inside Whitehall’s Ministry of Truth – How secretive “anti-misinformation” teams conducted mass political monitoring
January 29, 2023 / Press Releases
Big Brother Watch responds to new Government anti-protest proposals
January 16, 2023 / Press Releases
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
Online Safety Bill a threat to human rights warn campaigners
November 16, 2022 / Press Releases
Rights groups call on Government to rethink Public Order Bill after journalists’ arrests
November 12, 2022 / Press Releases
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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