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.
Tag: privacy
Matt Hancock has quietly told your GP to hand over your health data. Why?
28 May 2021 — Open Democracy
If you live in England, all your encounters with your GP – information about your physical, mental and sexual health – could be ‘sold’ to third parties
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, if you have children.)
⚠️ Biggest data grab in NHS history just weeks away
2 JUNE 2021 — BIG BROTHER WATCH
The biggest data grab in the history of the National Health Service is just weeks away!
♂️ What’s about to happen?
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.
iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse
28 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team / May 28, 2021
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.
⚠️ Covid passes = ID cards *on steroids*
28 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
“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!
UK mass surveillance found unlawful by Europe’s highest human rights court
25 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
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.
The Telegraph – Millions of phones tracked to analyse behavioural change after vaccination
24 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
Millions of people were ‘unwittingly tracked’ via their phone after receiving a vaccination, to identify patterns of travel post-jab.
The data was used by researchers at Oxford University to carry out studies for the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). The published SPI-B committee report clearly shows that one in ten peoples’ phones were used for the research without the users’ knowledge.
70+ MPs launch cross-party campaign against COVID passes
2 April 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
Further to Sir Keir’s comments about vaccine passports being un-British and against the “British instinct”, over 70 MPs have launched a cross-party campaign opposing their “divisive and discriminatory use”.
MPs and peers from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties have signed a pledge to oppose the move.
The UK risks becoming a world leader in online censorship
14 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
The emergence of a free and open internet was one of the greatest achievements of liberal democracies. The creation of a decentralised web allowed ordinary citizens in countries all over the world to share and receive information. Now, fears about crime and moral panics about disinformation mean that many liberal democracies are making the web a smaller place for everyone.
View: Big Brother Watch on the ‘Vaccine Passport’
21 May 2021 — Youtube
Danger! The NHS App
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“This is a matter of constitutional significance. We have never had ID’s in Britain, we don’t have internal passports”
Our Director Silkie Carlo to Julia Hartley-Brewer after a closer look at the Covid vaccine status feature on the NHS app reveals plans for more than just international travel…
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Privacy: End game for end-to-end encryption
8 April 2021 — True Publica
By Heather Burns: Last week, Wired has reported that the Home Office is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel Facebook and WhatsApp to break end-to-end encryption messaging.
Palantir – UK Gov’t sued for selling critical NHS database to foreign power
31st March 2021 — True Publica
At TruePublica, we took the view that Britain should not be ‘world-beating’ at being the most surveilled nation of any Western democracy in the world. For five years we reported with our partners that state surveillance and the ending of privacy was a matter of public interest, not a political plaything for some politicians to line their pockets with.
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
22 March 2021 — Consortium News
From the Archives: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do, notes former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray.
By Elizabeth Murray
Special to Consortium News
Feb. 3, 2015
Watch: The Scale of This Digital Dragnet Has Reached Epic Proportions
21 March, 2021 — 21st Century Wire
By NEWS WIRE
The intergovernmental data trawling led by America’s NSA, and partnering with the other Five Eyes nations the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, has the capability for full spectrum dominance over almost every aspect of human life – provided that most functioning aspects of our society and economy are transferred exclusively to the digital domain. The implications of this will render the foundational concepts of personal freedom and sovereignty meaningless in a traditional sense.
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:
Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents
17 March 2021 — The Rutherford Institute
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
“Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or irrelevant. We deserve that freedom, but the window to achieve it narrows a little more each day. If we don’t act now, with great urgency, it may very well close for good.”—Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times
Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps.
US spy firm at centre of sensitive NHS patient data grab
8 March 2021 — True Publica
The story below tells of alarming backroom deals being done without public or parliamentary scrutiny into the highly sensitive (and extremely valuable) NHS patient data system. The company involved is Palantir, a highly controversial American company that TruePublica has reported on several times in the last few years – that was at the centre of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Brexit scandal.
A Short Comment on a Big Danger
NovembRer 28, 2020 — Jack Rasmus
by Jack Rasmus
If you’re worried about the capability of government to conduct surveillance of citizens engaged in political assembly and protest, or even just personal activity, then you should be aware the technological capability of government surveillance is about to expand exponentially.
Report: Government Spies Are Tracking Brits Movements To Check If They’re Complying With Lockdown
20 November, 2020 — Summit News
GCHQ spooks also tasked with waging war on ‘anti-vaccination conspiracy theories’
By Steve Watson
Barry Batchelor – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images
GCHQ spooks are monitoring the movement of British people minute by minute to check if they are complying with government restrictions, according to reports.
In Blow to Online Privacy EU Seizes on Vienna Attack to Enact Long-Desired Ban on Encryption
9 November 2020 — Mint Press
The end of end to end encryption
If the EU is successful, users will no longer enjoy protection from the prying eyes of government and criminals on popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
By Alan Macleod
The European Union is rushing through new legislation to get rid of end to end digital encryption. This would mean the end of privacy for users of popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
If no-one watches the watchers, we can’t defend our civil liberties
13 October 2020 — Statewatch
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 and migrants; and plans to create vast, centralised databases of sensitive biometric data. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 