privacy
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Statewatch News 5 August 2022 Issue 13/22
Friday, 5 August 2022 — Statewatch News (Issue 13/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Frontex: covert interrogations at the Spanish border with no legal guarantees EU criminal records database access extended for migrant ‘screening’ In-depth research to keep you informed Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch responds to £7.5m Clearview AI fine by the ICO
“This important enforcement action by the ICO should be another nail in the coffin for facial recognition in the UK.” Continue reading
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Google Censorship! Now your Private Email is under threat!
Previously, intercepts like the one below, only happened when you clicked on a link in your Browser but Google have taken censorship onto an entirely new level. Google now intercepts your PRIVATE EMAIL, allegedly to protect you against phishing and other online scams. 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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Big Brother Watch responds to new government anti-encryption campaign
“The Home Office’s bizarre attack on end-to-end encryption is an attack on a technology that Government ministers use for communication every day. It’s disturbing to see such a cynical campaign launched in attempt to justify yet wider and deeper state surveillance of everyday, private conversations. Continue reading
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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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