surveillance
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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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Statewatch: Call for expressions of interest
STATE DATABASES, BIOMETRICS, POLICING AND MIGRATION CONTROL As part of our ongoing work on the development and deployment of biometric technologies for policing and migration control, we are organising two workshops in October this year. Continue reading
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Politicians, Journalists, HR Activists And Others Spied Upon Using Pegasus Spyware
NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide, insists that its Pegasus spyware is used only to “investigate terrorism and crime.” Leaked data, however, reveals that the company’s hacking tool “has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.” Continue reading
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The ‘Vaccine Passport’ Agenda
Overall, medical aspects are only the operational level of the coronavirus pandemic: in countries where the median age of covid deaths is above 80 years, the public health impact of the pandemic will be quite limited and primarily related to serious cases of ‘long covid’. Indeed, even the WHO recently acknowledged that the coronavirus pandemic… Continue reading
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⛔ Stop Thermal Surveillance
Throughout the pandemic, we have all been subjected to surveillance measures like never before. Surveillance companies have been selling invasive and inaccurate thermal scanners on the false claim they can “detect fevers” or even detect coronavirus. Continue reading
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Privacy International launches new guide to resisting high tech police surveillance
Imagine going to a peaceful protest and having to show your ID to the police before you can join it. Or having to fill out a form about why you are attending that particular protest. 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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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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Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon
The controversial data mining firm, whose history and rise has long been inextricably linked with the CIA and the national security state, will now use its software to identify and prioritize the same minority groups that it has long oppressed on behalf of the US military and US intelligence. 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
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70+ MPs launch cross-party campaign against COVID passes
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. Continue reading
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View: Big Brother Watch on the ‘Vaccine Passport’
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… Continue reading
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Privacy: End game for end-to-end encryption
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. Continue reading
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Netpol’s guide to resisting police surveillance
The last few weeks have seen police mount a huge evidence gathering operation, tracking and targeting people for arrests and fines. Thousands have been filmed, photographed and logged on police databases after protesting against sweeping new police powers. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 