database state
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⚠️ Privacy Alert: Protesters around the world are being watched — and tracked — like never before
No matter what cause you’re standing up for, joining a protest today can come with serious privacy risks. From facial recognition to phone tracking, surveillance tech is being used to monitor protests and intimidate participants. The risks are real, but there are ways to stay safer. Continue reading
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10 year plan: say goodbye to your data (and say goodbye to your GP)
When the whole 10 year plan comes out tomorrow we’ll start reading it, but the night before what’s out is the last press release before the 10 year plan – ie only the bits that Government most wants to talk about because they think they’re the best parts… Continue reading
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The Government’s Request for Ideas on the Politically Controlled health record you’ll be forced to have
This Government believes AI will impact everything, and because it believes AI will impact everything and the Silicon Valley hype, the Government believes in the coming robotics revolution and can slash care worker visas because care worker jobs will “soon” be done by robots (remember to say thank you to chatGPT). What they’re doing for… Continue reading
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Who will become data controller of your medical notes in Wes’s World?
Speaking in Parliament, Wes Streeting said: “NHS England will be brought into the Department entirely”. Entirely is the key word, with consequences for decisions that have not yet been made. The abolition is a change that everyone thought beneficial but few expected before Wes Streeting first announced it two weeks ago and which surprised almost… Continue reading
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Statewatch Bi-weekly bulletin: issue 25/01
Welcome to the year’s first edition of the Statewatch Bulletin.You may have already noticed, but 2025 has brought several changes to Statewatch. You can find explanations of these changes along with our regular newsletter content below, now in a friendlier format.As always, if you appreciate what we do, you can support us with a donation. Every… Continue reading
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Were you listed on the gangs matrix?
In January 2021, Awate Suleiman, UNJUST & Liberty launched a legal challenge against the Met Police over the racist Gangs Matrix. Days before the case was meant to be heard, the Met Police settled the claim, admitting that the Gangs Matrix breached people’s right to privacy. Continue reading
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A Trump-supporting billionaire wants access to your NHS records
But NHS England claims we have nothing to worry about. It says the information it will share under this new contract is “pseudonymous,” meaning that identifying details will be removed. Continue reading
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UK can join EU surveillance schemes with no parliamentary scrutiny, warns new report
The UK can join intrusive EU surveillance schemes including a pan-European network of police facial recognition databases with no need for parliamentary debate or scrutiny, says a new report published last week by Statewatch. Continue reading
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GPDPR – An Open Letter to GP Practices
GPs are raising the alarm about plans to make 55 million NHS patients’ data available to corporations for profit. A group of GPs in East London are taking action to withhold the data and protect the privacy of their patients by refusing to share data from their Practice. They’re encouraging medical practitioners throughout England to… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 18 June (Issue 12/21, also available as a PDF)
18 June 2021 — Statewatch Statewatch News 18 June (Issue 12/21, also available as a PDF) Global call to ban public biometric surveillance As public and private sector institutions push ahead with the development and deployment of remote biometric surveillance systems – currently best-exemplified by facial recognition technology – opposition is increasing. Continue reading
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Watch: The Scale of This Digital Dragnet Has Reached Epic Proportions
Former NSA and CIA contractor turned whistleblower, Ed Snowden, explains how this digital dragnet has come to pass and what practical steps society needs to take to preserve essential aspects of a free civilization. Watch: Continue reading
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US spy firm at centre of sensitive NHS patient data grab
AstraZeneca, Microsoft and Amazon held talks on the creation of “an extraordinary and internationally unique resource”, a “single, national, standardised, event-based longitudinal record for Britain’s 65 million citizens Continue reading
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Webinar: Deportation Union: databases for expulsions (26 October, 14:00-15:30 CET)
The EU is expanding a host of databases used for migration and border control. A key focus of this is the increased collection and use of personal data to facilitate forced removals. Continue reading
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If no-one watches the watchers, we can’t defend our civil liberties
As governments seek ever-greater surveillance powers, we need to keep them under control. For almost three decades, Statewatch has reported on, analysed and fought against attempts by the EU and national governments to snoop further and further into our private lives – from the surveillance and retention of telecommunications data; to the profiling of travellers, tourists… Continue reading
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NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of… Continue reading
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UK: Mission Creep – Yet more intrusive surveillance powers given to government
Back in 2016 – TruePublica wrote: “One should wonder where the universal surveillance system dubbed the ‘snoopers charter’ being installed by Britain’s government is heading for eventually. Recently described by Edward Snowden in tweets as the “most intrusive and least accountable surveillance regime in the West” and its “a comprehensive record of your private activities,… Continue reading
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Patient data from GP surgeries sold to US companies
7 December 2019 — The Guardian Dealings with international pharma raise new fears about American ambitions to access NHS Toby Helm Data about millions of NHS patients has been sold to US and other international pharmaceutical companies for research, the Observer has learned, raising new fears about America’s growing ambitions to access lucrative parts of Continue reading
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UK police gain access to details of thousands of men, women and children through government’s Prevent database By Barry Mason
The UK’s police forces have full access to private information, including the political views, of thousands of men, women and children who have been referred to the government’s Prevent programme. Continue reading
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Surveillance State: All school children now targeted by the state
This article is part of a series dedicated to a significant and wide-reaching BigBrotherWatch publication focusing on state surveillance that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. Today, it is a very serious worry that our entire mechanism of democracy is being undermined by excessive and uncontrolled state surveillance. This disproportionate obsession by the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 