corpus.blog
56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa5e6b289f", "title": "Big Brother Watch response to arrests for protest placards & chants such as those referencing “intifada”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-response-to-arrests-for-protest-placards-chants-such-as-those-referencing-intifada/", "published_at": "2025-12-18T16:55:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa5e9c1000", "title": "What do the Government’s bank spying powers mean for me?", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/bankspying/what-do-the-governments-bank-spying-powers-mean-for-me/", "published_at": "2025-12-15T15:43:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa5f78d48e", "title": "The National – Scottish police consider adopting “Orwellian” facial recognition technology", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-national-scottish-police-consider-adopting-orwellian-facial-recognition-technology/", "published_at": "2025-12-14T07:39:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa601441d6", "title": "We took an army of Starmers to the digital ID debate – what happened next?", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/we-took-an-army-of-starmers-to-the-digital-id-debate-what-happened-next/", "published_at": "2025-12-10T17:30:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa6061c511", "title": "The Guardian – Digital billboards the “height of surveillance capitalism”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-guardian-digital-billboards-the-height-of-surveillance-capitalism/", "published_at": "2025-12-09T07:31:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa60cb482b", "title": "LBC – Ministers want a digital ID. They still can’t say what it will actually do", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/opinion-pieces/lbc-ministers-want-a-digital-id-they-still-cant-say-what-it-will-actually-do/", "published_at": "2025-12-08T07:47:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa611fb197", "title": "The Metro – Campaigners urge parliament to “listen to the people” on digital IDs", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-metro-campaigners-urge-parliament-to-listen-to-the-people-on-digital-ids/", "published_at": "2025-12-08T07:37:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa6192e1e4", "title": "UK Government’s plan to “ramp up facial recognition”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/uk-governments-plan-to-ramp-up-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-12-04T08:07:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa620e934d", "title": "The Times – Mass expansion of facial recognition will “perpetuate existing biases”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-times-mass-expansion-of-facial-recognition-will-perpetuate-existing-biases/", "published_at": "2025-12-04T07:59:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa62a73a73", "title": "BBC – Facial recognition surveillance “out of control”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/bbc-facial-recognition-surveillance-out-of-control/", "published_at": "2025-12-04T07:50:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa630feb6e", "title": "The Spectator – The sinister rise of facial-recognition Britain", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-spectator-the-sinister-rise-of-facial-recognition-britain/", "published_at": "2025-12-04T07:45:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63132081", "title": "Computer Weekly – A mandatory digital ID could create a permissions-based society, MPs hear", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/did/computerweekly-a-mandatory-digital-id-could-create-a-permissions-based-society-mps-hear/", "published_at": "2025-12-01T12:59:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63d9b775", "title": "The Telegraph – Councils should not use drones to spy on residents, campaigners warn", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-telegraph-councils-should-not-use-drones-to-spy-on-residents-campaigners-warn/", "published_at": "2025-11-29T12:48:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63ddd057", "title": "What is digital ID really about?", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/what-is-digital-id-really-about/", "published_at": "2025-11-27T17:38:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63ed019d", "title": "Big Brother Watch response to live facial recognition trials at select London railway stations", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-response-to-live-facial-recognition-trials-at-select-london-railway-stations/", "published_at": "2025-11-27T10:46:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63f2618e", "title": "Big Brother Watch response to digital ID costs revealed in OBR report", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-response-to-digital-id-costs-revealed-in-obr-report/", "published_at": "2025-11-26T17:26:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63f5d22c", "title": "⚠️ Digital ID is a “TERRIBLE idea”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%e2%9a%a0%ef%b8%8f-digital-id-is-a-terrible-idea/", "published_at": "2025-11-25T17:23:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa63fdc7e4", "title": "Panel discussion: The State of Surveillance", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/past/panel-discussion-the-state-of-surveillance/", "published_at": "2025-11-20T10:02:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa64b75160", "title": "Digital ID plans TORN APART in intense Parliament committee session", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/digital-id-plans-torn-apart-in-intense-parliament-committee-session/", "published_at": "2025-11-19T16:27:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4a6-4eac-70e1-99f4-cbaa655accbd", "title": "BBC – Welsh man falsely accused of theft by a shop using facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/bbc-welsh-man-falsely-accused-of-theft-by-a-shop-using-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-11-19T13:08:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26de127adb", "title": "The Mirror – “no one really believes” digital ID is about immigration, campaigners warn", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-mirror-no-one-really-believes-digital-id-is-about-immigration-campaigners-warn/", "published_at": "2025-11-18T13:02:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26deac10fc", "title": "The government’s digital ID plan: Why now and what for?", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/hidden/the-governments-digital-id-plan-why-now-and-what-for/", "published_at": "2025-11-18T10:17:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26def1b672", "title": "Daily Mail – British police have made CHILLING arrests over social media posts, figures reveals", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/daily-mail-british-police-have-made-chilling-arrests-over-social-media-posts-figures-reveals/", "published_at": "2025-11-15T13:14:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26dfe6bef4", "title": "Handing Keir Starmer your Digital ID petition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/handing-keir-starmer-your-digital-id-petition/", "published_at": "2025-11-13T15:37:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e099579a", "title": "Conservative home – Facial recognition won’t stop knife crime, but it will erode our rights and freedoms", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/conservative-home-facial-recognition-wont-stop-knife-crime-but-it-will-erode-our-rights-and-freedoms/", "published_at": "2025-11-13T12:44:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e17af0d6", "title": "BBC – Live facial recognition to be deployed in Leeds for the first time", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/bbc-live-facial-recognition-to-be-deployed-in-leeds-for-the-first-time/", "published_at": "2025-11-11T13:18:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e1ad5c1a", "title": "❌”We won’t be carrying digital IDs", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%e2%9d%8cwe-wont-be-carrying-digital-ids/", "published_at": "2025-11-06T17:13:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e20bd530", "title": "⚠️Fixed facial recognition cameras in London", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%e2%9a%a0%ef%b8%8ffixed-facial-recognition-cameras-in-london/", "published_at": "2025-11-04T17:39:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e2a1fdc9", "title": "BBC – The Met Police’s use of live facial recognition branded “chilling” by campaigners", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/bbc-the-met-polices-use-of-live-facial-recognition-branded-chilling-by-campaigners/", "published_at": "2025-10-31T15:41:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e2d1805a", "title": "Big Brother Watch responds to the Metropolitan Police’s 2025 live facial recognition report", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/big-brother-watch-responds-to-the-metropolitan-polices-2025-live-facial-recognition-report/", "published_at": "2025-10-31T10:43:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e394ba08", "title": "Big Issue – UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/opinion-pieces/big-issue-bank-spying-plans-risk-another-horizon-scandal/", "published_at": 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News – UK shops are using “Orwellian” facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/yahoo-news-uk-shops-are-using-orwellian-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-10-24T13:59:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e446b14d", "title": "Metro – Digital ID plans worry privacy rights campaigners", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/metro-digital-id-plans-worry-privacy-rights-campaigners/", "published_at": "2025-10-24T13:50:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e48e2200", "title": "BBC – Debate on live facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/bbc-debate-on-live-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-10-24T13:40:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e511f299", "title": "Big Brother Watch’s comment on Keir Starmer’s plans for a digital ID scheme", "url": 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"https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/did/daily-mail-2/", "published_at": "2025-10-22T13:23:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e6788701", "title": "🆔Digital ID “sounds ORWELLIAN”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%f0%9f%86%94digital-id-sounds-orwellian/", "published_at": "2025-10-20T16:03:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e7731de0", "title": "FIXED facial recognition cameras quietly switched on in London for the first time", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/fixed-facial-recognition-cameras-quietly-switched-on-in-london-for-the-first-time/", "published_at": "2025-10-16T15:39:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26e83e4bd1", "title": "The Independent – Charities warn vulnerable people at risk from government bank spying powers", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-independent-charities-warn-vulnerable-people-at-risk-from-government-bank-spying-powers/", "published_at": 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"title": "BBC – Police unit continues recording identities of FOI requests, abandoning transparency reforms", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/bbc-police-unit-continues-recording-identities-of-foi-requests-abandoning-transparency-reforms/", "published_at": "2025-10-01T12:40:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26eb4480eb", "title": "The Times – Live facial recognition could enable “Orwellian street surveillance”, campaigners say", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-times-live-facial-recognition-could-enable-orwellian-street-surveillance-campaigners-say/", "published_at": "2025-09-29T12:36:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ebe47238", "title": "The National – Digital ID system is a serious threat to civil liberties", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/the-national-digital-id-system-is-a-serious-threat-to-civil-liberties/", "published_at": "2025-09-28T11:57:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ebf49b2a", "title": "❌ Digital ID won’t stop the boats", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%e2%9d%8c-digital-id-wont-stop-the-boats/", "published_at": "2025-09-26T16:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ec1b4d3d", "title": "The Guardian – Keir Starmer announces plans for a mandatory digital ID", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/did/the-guardian-keir-starmer-announces-plans-for-a-mandatory-digital-id/", "published_at": "2025-09-26T15:18:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ecba51bb", "title": "Daily Mail – Rights groups raise privacy concerns in a letter to Starmer about digital ID", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/daily-mail-rights-groups-raise-privacy-concerns-in-a-letter-to-starmer-about-digital-id/", "published_at": "2025-09-26T13:09:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ed27f240", "title": "CapX – Labour’s ‘Britcard’ will leave us less free – and less British", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/did/capx-labours-britcard-will-leave-us-less-free-and-less-british/", "published_at": "2025-09-26T11:45:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ee1e035e", "title": "Big Brother Watch response to news that the Prime Minister will announce a mandatory digital ID scheme", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/did/big-brother-watch-response-to-news-that-the-prime-minister-will-announce-a-mandatory-digital-id-scheme/", "published_at": "2025-09-25T16:51:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26ef0a9142", "title": "Daily Mail – Digital ID is a step towards “checkpoint Britain”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/daily-mail-digital-id-is-a-step-towards-checkpoint-britain/", "published_at": "2025-09-24T12:32:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26efd83ad6", "title": "Rights groups urge Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID", "url": 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"https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/new-york-times-live-facial-recognition-expanding-at-an-unprecedented-scale-in-the-uk/", "published_at": "2025-09-17T14:52:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26f43956ef", "title": "Five things you need to know about the Online Safety Act", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-online-safety-bill/", "published_at": "2025-09-16T10:05:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c254-73a7-a956-3a26f4973ce4", "title": "Islington Tribune – Police breach of council ruling on facial recognition “alarming”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/islington-tribune-police-breach-of-council-ruling-on-facial-recognition-alarming/", "published_at": "2025-09-12T12:29:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31dd0d457e", "title": "Stop Starmer’s plans for a checkpoint Britain", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/stop-starmers-plans-for-a-checkpoint-britain/", "published_at": "2025-09-11T15:12:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31de076ad5", "title": "Biometric Update – New report on digital ID warns about a ‘checkpoint Britain’", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/biometric-update-new-report-on-digital-id-warns-about-a-checkpoint-britain/", "published_at": "2025-09-11T13:58:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31de4d444d", "title": "Big Brother Watch warns of “Checkpoint Britain” in vital new report examining the dangers of digital ID", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-warns-of-checkpoint-britain-in-vital-new-report-examining-the-dangers-of-digital-id/", "published_at": "2025-09-11T06:01:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31de75037d", "title": "The Times – Digital ID scheme would threaten privacy rights", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/the-times-digital-id-scheme-would-threaten-privacy-rights/", "published_at": "2025-09-10T13:37:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31df0c5362", "title": "Starmer’s Checkpoint Britain: How Digital ID threatens our rights", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/hidden/starmers-checkpoint-britain-how-digital-id-threatens-our-rights/", "published_at": "2025-09-09T15:48:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31dfcc5497", "title": "Nation Cymru – Shoppers turned into “walking barcodes” by supermarket surveillance", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/nation-cymru-shoppers-turned-into-walking-barcodes-by-supermarket-surveillance/", "published_at": "2025-09-05T16:54:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e0666654", "title": "❌Stop facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%e2%9d%8cstop-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-09-05T15:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e0f0b0ea", "title": "Rolling Stone – UK arrests for online speech “disturbing and disproportionate”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/freespeech/rolling-stone-uk-arrests-for-online-speech-disturbing-and-disproportionate/", "published_at": "2025-09-03T16:50:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e1547570", "title": "Independent – Keir Starmer on the verge of introducing digital ID cards for all", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/independent-keir-starmer-is-on-the-verge-of-introducing-digital-id-cards-for-all/", "published_at": "2025-09-03T14:56:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e1f74d6e", "title": "Responding to news that the government is on the verge of mandating digital ID", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/responding-to-news-that-the-government-is-on-the-verge-of-mandating-digital-id/", "published_at": "2025-09-03T09:15:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e2e63d3d", "title": "The Guardian – Met Police used new draconian stop & search powers against 47 protestors, research finds", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-guardian-met-police-used-new-draconian-stop-search-powers-against-47-protestors-research-finds/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T16:42:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e326ff4b", "title": "The Guardian – Sainsbury’s to start spying on customers using live facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-guardian-sainsburys-to-start-spying-on-customers-using-live-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T15:07:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e3f97711", "title": "Labour’s Checkpoint Britain: How Digital ID threatens our rights", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/past/labours-checkpoint-britain-how-digital-id-threatens-our-rights/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T14:49:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e43d1a68", "title": "Big Brother Watch responds to Sainsbury’s trial of live facial recognition in stores", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/response-to-sainsburys-trial-of-live-facial-recognition-in-stores/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T11:22:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e4a09586", "title": "Liberalism vs. the “Papers, Please” State: The Liberal Democrat Answer to Digital ID", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/hidden/liberalism-vs-the-papers-please-state-the-liberal-democrat-answer-to-digital-id/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T08:59:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e5211615", "title": "The Critic – The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/opinion-pieces/the-critic-the-perverse-outcomes-of-the-online-safety-act/", "published_at": "2025-08-29T16:53:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e5dfded2", "title": "🔔HUGE NEWS about live facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%f0%9f%94%94huge-news-about-live-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-08-27T15:43:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4b6-c255-7034-872c-4c31e65788a1", "title": "The National – Fourteen rights groups urge Police Scotland to abandon facial recognition plans", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-national-fourteen-rights-groups-urge-police-scotland-to-abandon-facial-recognition-plans/", "published_at": "2025-08-26T16:27:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9b40ac9d", "title": "Rights and equalities groups condemn Police Scotland’s decision to continue introduction of live facial recognition surveillance", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/scotlands-decision-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-08-26T14:04:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9bb56bda", "title": "The Guardian – The Met’s use of facial recognition is unlawful, regulator says", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-guardian-the-mets-use-of-facial-recognition-is-unlawful-regulator-says/", "published_at": "2025-08-20T16:01:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9ca3c3ea", "title": "EHRC Intervenes in Landmark Facial Recognition Case", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/ehrc-facial-recognition-case/", "published_at": "2025-08-20T13:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9d44366d", "title": "The Guardian – “No legislation governing live facial recognition” privacy rights group warns", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-guardian-no-legislation-governing-live-facial-recognition-privacy-rights-group-warns/", "published_at": "2025-08-19T16:09:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9db7e2ea", "title": "Al Jazeera – Win for privacy as UK drops draconian demand for Apple encryption back door, US official says", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/al-jazeera-win-for-privacy-as-uk-drops-draconian-demand-for-apple-encryption-back-door-us-official-says/", "published_at": "2025-08-19T16:03:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9e731285", "title": "Big Brother Watch responds to reports that the UK has dropped its demand for access to Apple users’ encrypted data", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/response-to-uk-apple-encryption-reports/", "published_at": "2025-08-19T10:19:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9eb9650a", "title": "How access to information can help us understand AI decision making", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/past/how-access-to-information-can-help-us-understand-ai-decision-making/", "published_at": "2025-08-19T09:22:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9f37e218", "title": "BBC – Wrongly accused of being a fraudster at a shop using facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/bbc-wrongly-accused-of-being-a-fraudster-at-a-shop-using-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-08-18T16:11:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9f980a7f", "title": "“This doesn’t seem LEGAL”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/this-doesnt-seem-legal/", "published_at": "2025-08-18T15:43:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215b9fe9522f", "title": "Big Brother Watch leads joint letter to Met Commissioner on the use of live facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/bbwnottinghillcarnivalletter/", "published_at": "2025-08-18T11:54:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba0436512", "title": "The Register – Minority Report-style policing tool “deeply chilling”, campaigners say", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-register-minority-report-style-policing-tool-deeply-chilling-campaigners-say/", "published_at": "2025-08-16T13:12:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba0ac21c4", "title": "The Guardian – Don’t use facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival, rights groups tell police", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-guardian-dont-use-facial-recognition-at-notting-hill-carnival-rights-groups-tell-police/", "published_at": "2025-08-16T12:57:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba189c951", "title": "🚨Your passport photo = police mugshot", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/videos/%f0%9f%9a%a8your-passport-photo-police-mugshot/", "published_at": "2025-08-13T15:03:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba1ac6464", "title": "City A.M. – Notting Hill Carnival: The Met is writing its own rules for live facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/city-a-m-notting-hill-carnival-the-met-is-writing-its-own-rules-for-live-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-08-13T14:32:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba271e5f9", "title": "BBC – Government announced unprecedented facial recognition expansion", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/bbc-government-announced-unprecedented-facial-recognition-expansion/", "published_at": "2025-08-13T08:37:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba2b373ee", "title": "Unprecedented Expansion of Facial Recognition Is “Worrying for Democracy”", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/unprecedented-facial-recognition-rollout/", "published_at": "2025-08-12T23:01:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba2cc3219", "title": "Big Brother Watch Board Responds to Palestine Action Arrests", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/board-responds-to-palestine-action-arrests/", "published_at": "2025-08-11T16:46:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba2d615fd", "title": "The Telegraph – Censor lawful content or pay severe fines, tech companies told", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-telegraph-censor-lawful-content-or-pay-severe-fines-tech-companies-told/", "published_at": "2025-08-09T10:34:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba34f9051", "title": "UnHerd – Big Tech could be UK’s last hope against Online Safety Act", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/big-tech-could-be-uks-last-hope-against-online-safety-act/", "published_at": "2025-08-09T09:28:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e4c5-e269-728f-b138-215ba35526ec", "title": "The Telegraph – Police searching passport photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition", "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/facialrec/the-telegraph-police-searching-passport-photos-with-orwellian-facial-recognition/", "published_at": "2025-08-07T17:18:23+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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Big Brother Watch response to arrests for protest placards & chants such as those referencing “intifada”original ↗
18 Dec 2025
What do the Government’s bank spying powers mean for me?original ↗
15 Dec 2025
The National – Scottish police consider adopting “Orwellian” facial recognition technologyoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
We took an army of Starmers to the digital ID debate – what happened next?original ↗
10 Dec 2025
The Guardian – Digital billboards the “height of surveillance capitalism”original ↗
9 Dec 2025
LBC – Ministers want a digital ID. They still can’t say what it will actually dooriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
The Metro – Campaigners urge parliament to “listen to the people” on digital IDsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
UK Government’s plan to “ramp up facial recognition”original ↗
4 Dec 2025
The Times – Mass expansion of facial recognition will “perpetuate existing biases”original ↗
4 Dec 2025
BBC – Facial recognition surveillance “out of control”original ↗
4 Dec 2025
The Spectator – The sinister rise of facial-recognition Britainoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
Computer Weekly – A mandatory digital ID could create a permissions-based society, MPs hearoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
The Telegraph – Councils should not use drones to spy on residents, campaigners warnoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2025
What is digital ID really about?original ↗
27 Nov 2025
Big Brother Watch response to live facial recognition trials at select London railway stationsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2025
Big Brother Watch response to digital ID costs revealed in OBR reportoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2025
⚠️ Digital ID is a “TERRIBLE idea”original ↗
25 Nov 2025
Panel discussion: The State of Surveillanceoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
Digital ID plans TORN APART in intense Parliament committee sessionoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
BBC – Welsh man falsely accused of theft by a shop using facial recognitionoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
The Mirror – “no one really believes” digital ID is about immigration, campaigners warnoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
The government’s digital ID plan: Why now and what for?original ↗
18 Nov 2025
Daily Mail – British police have made CHILLING arrests over social media posts, figures revealsoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
Handing Keir Starmer your Digital ID petitionoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2025
Conservative home – Facial recognition won’t stop knife crime, but it will erode our rights and freedomsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2025
BBC – Live facial recognition to be deployed in Leeds for the first timeoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
❌”We won’t be carrying digital IDsoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
⚠️Fixed facial recognition cameras in Londonoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
BBC – The Met Police’s use of live facial recognition branded “chilling” by campaignersoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
Big Brother Watch responds to the Metropolitan Police’s 2025 live facial recognition reportoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
Big Issue – UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stoppedoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2025
Yahoo! News – UK shops are using “Orwellian” facial recognitionoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Metro – Digital ID plans worry privacy rights campaignersoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
BBC – Debate on live facial recognitionoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Big Brother Watch’s comment on Keir Starmer’s plans for a digital ID schemeoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
BBC – Starmer’s digital ID plans raise surveillance concernsoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
Big Brother Watch’s comment on the use of drones as a first responders by the Metropolitan Policeoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
Daily Mail – Labour is “backtracking on the promise” to use non-digital ID, campaigners sayoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2025
🆔Digital ID “sounds ORWELLIAN”original ↗
20 Oct 2025
FIXED facial recognition cameras quietly switched on in London for the first timeoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
The Independent – Charities warn vulnerable people at risk from government bank spying powersoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
Daily Mail – “Sinister” plans to extend digital ID to 13 year oldsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
Big Brother Watch response to proposed powers further restricting “repeat protests”original ↗
6 Oct 2025
City A.M. – What are the civil liberties implications of a digital ID?original ↗
1 Oct 2025
BBC – Police unit continues recording identities of FOI requests, abandoning transparency reformsoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2025
The Times – Live facial recognition could enable “Orwellian street surveillance”, campaigners sayoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
The National – Digital ID system is a serious threat to civil libertiesoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
❌ Digital ID won’t stop the boatsoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
The Guardian – Keir Starmer announces plans for a mandatory digital IDoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
Daily Mail – Rights groups raise privacy concerns in a letter to Starmer about digital IDoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
CapX – Labour’s ‘Britcard’ will leave us less free – and less Britishoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
Big Brother Watch response to news that the Prime Minister will announce a mandatory digital ID schemeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2025
Daily Mail – Digital ID is a step towards “checkpoint Britain”original ↗
24 Sept 2025
Rights groups urge Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital IDoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
Computer Weekly – Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’original ↗
23 Sept 2025
Daily Mail – Two thirds of UK public do not trust government with personal data, digital ID poll revealsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
What the UK’s worst data breaches say about Government plans for a digital ID systemoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
History warns us against digital IDoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
BBC – Council facial recognition plans mark “unprecedented level of mass surveillance”original ↗
18 Sept 2025
New York Times – Live facial recognition expanding at an unprecedented scale in the UKoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
Five things you need to know about the Online Safety Actoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
Islington Tribune – Police breach of council ruling on facial recognition “alarming”original ↗
12 Sept 2025
Stop Starmer’s plans for a checkpoint Britainoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2025
Biometric Update – New report on digital ID warns about a ‘checkpoint Britain’original ↗
11 Sept 2025
Big Brother Watch warns of “Checkpoint Britain” in vital new report examining the dangers of digital IDoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2025
The Times – Digital ID scheme would threaten privacy rightsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2025
Starmer’s Checkpoint Britain: How Digital ID threatens our rightsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2025
Nation Cymru – Shoppers turned into “walking barcodes” by supermarket surveillanceoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
❌Stop facial recognitionoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
Rolling Stone – UK arrests for online speech “disturbing and disproportionate”original ↗
3 Sept 2025
Independent – Keir Starmer on the verge of introducing digital ID cards for alloriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
Responding to news that the government is on the verge of mandating digital IDoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
The Guardian – Met Police used new draconian stop & search powers against 47 protestors, research findsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
The Guardian – Sainsbury’s to start spying on customers using live facial recognitionoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Labour’s Checkpoint Britain: How Digital ID threatens our rightsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Big Brother Watch responds to Sainsbury’s trial of live facial recognition in storesoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Liberalism vs. the “Papers, Please” State: The Liberal Democrat Answer to Digital IDoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
The Critic – The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Actoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2025
🔔HUGE NEWS about live facial recognitionoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
The National – Fourteen rights groups urge Police Scotland to abandon facial recognition plansoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Rights and equalities groups condemn Police Scotland’s decision to continue introduction of live facial recognition surveillanceoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
The Guardian – The Met’s use of facial recognition is unlawful, regulator saysoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
EHRC Intervenes in Landmark Facial Recognition Caseoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
The Guardian – “No legislation governing live facial recognition” privacy rights group warnsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
Al Jazeera – Win for privacy as UK drops draconian demand for Apple encryption back door, US official saysoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
Big Brother Watch responds to reports that the UK has dropped its demand for access to Apple users’ encrypted dataoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
How access to information can help us understand AI decision makingoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
BBC – Wrongly accused of being a fraudster at a shop using facial recognitionoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
“This doesn’t seem LEGAL”original ↗
18 Aug 2025
Big Brother Watch leads joint letter to Met Commissioner on the use of live facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnivaloriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
The Register – Minority Report-style policing tool “deeply chilling”, campaigners sayoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
The Guardian – Don’t use facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival, rights groups tell policeoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
🚨Your passport photo = police mugshotoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
City A.M. – Notting Hill Carnival: The Met is writing its own rules for live facial recognitionoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
BBC – Government announced unprecedented facial recognition expansionoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
Unprecedented Expansion of Facial Recognition Is “Worrying for Democracy”original ↗
12 Aug 2025
Big Brother Watch Board Responds to Palestine Action Arrestsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2025
The Telegraph – Censor lawful content or pay severe fines, tech companies toldoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
UnHerd – Big Tech could be UK’s last hope against Online Safety Actoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
The Telegraph – Police searching passport photos with “Orwellian” facial recognitionoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2025
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