privacy
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From citizen scores to facial recognition – we’re fighting back!
13 November 2021 — Big Brother Watch t’s been a busy few weeks at Big Brother Watch, as ever! Here’s a quick run down of what we’ve been doing to fight facial recognition, ‘no jab no job‘ policies, censorship, and citizen scoring in the welfare system. Continue reading
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The PATRIOT Act And The Whistleblowers Who Challenged Mass Surveillance After 9/11
[Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter continues a retrospective on this transformation in policing and government.] Mark Klein worked for over twenty years as a technician for the AT&T Corporation. He blew the whistle on the AT&T’s collaboration with… Continue reading
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Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners
Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on the rise of Big Tech speech police. Continue reading
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Blinken comes riding the Pegasus
Pegasus, the winged divine horse from Greek mythology, symbolises a range of things. The mythological salad can include many symbolic narratives — ranging from soul’s immortality to poetic inspiration — even the Marxist eschatological myth of the withering away of the state. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 23rd July 2021
If you asked NHS Digital for opt-out forms and the forms didn’t show up, or took ages to arrive, people tell us that happened a lot. You can get forms from us here. We’d like to be able to tell you that you will have more information on the ‘GPDPR’ data scheme in the future than… Continue reading
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Councils’ “hidden algorithms” profile millions on benefits, Big Brother Watch investigation finds
Big Brother Watch’s new report “Poverty Panopticon: the hidden algorithms shaping Britain’s welfare state”, published today, reveals that 540,000 benefits applicants are secretly assigned fraud risk scores by councils’ algorithms before they can access housing benefit or council tax support…250,000+ people’s data is processed by a range of secretive automated tools to predict the likelihood… 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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Big Brother Watch signs open letter to MPs to protect end-to-end encryption
68 million of your constituents are at risk of losing the most important tool to keep them safe and protected from cyber-criminals and hostile governments. Continue reading
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UK: medConfidential Bulletin, 11th June 2021
On 12 May, NHS Digital quietly announced there would be a new GP data collection, known as ‘GP Data for Planning and Research’, ‘GPDPR’ – or the #GPdataGrab, for clarity. NHS Digital and the Secretary of State, who on 6th April had Directed NHS Digital to run the scheme, hoped no-one would notice. Continue reading
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NHS data grab *delayed*
The Government has buckled and delayed the NHS data grab! The collection will now take place on September 1, 2021. Continue reading
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UK: TRIGGERnometry – Your Government is Spying on You
2 June 2021 — Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch Team Big Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster for the latest TRIGGERnometry podcast. Continue reading
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Matt Hancock has quietly told your GP to hand over your health data. Why?
The government wants your GP data, and it hasn’t given GPs much of a choice From 1 July this year, if you’re registered with a GP in England, the government will be taking a copy of every medical event your GP recorded on their systems since you first registered with them. (Your children’s records, too,… Continue reading
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⚠️ Biggest data grab in NHS history just weeks away
The Government has hatched a plan to copy the entire GP medical history from every patient in England to an NHS Digital database from July 1st 2021. Continue reading
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iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse
The Government has been accused of bringing in an ID card “by stealth” after it was revealed that ministers signed a vaccine passport contract that could last for years. Continue reading
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⚠️ Covid passes = ID cards *on steroids*
“NONE OF US LIKES THE IDEA OF COVID CERTIFICATION” Not our words, the words of Michael Gove… Yesterday he appeared in front of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to receive a grilling on Covid passes. To say that it made for awkward viewing would be putting it politely! Continue reading
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UK mass surveillance found unlawful by Europe’s highest human rights court
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes, disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, unlawfully breached citizens’ rights to privacy and free expression. Continue reading
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The Telegraph – Millions of phones tracked to analyse behavioural change after vaccination
Millions of people were ‘unwittingly tracked’ via their phone after receiving a vaccination, to identify patterns of travel post-jab. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 