Tag: surveillance

European Union law prohibits governments from forcing private companies to engage in bulk, indiscriminate surveillance, according to a legal opinion ...

A private security company organised 24/7 surveillance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in ...

Hackers have been using compromised websites to install “monitoring implants” in iPhones for years, according to researchers at Google. The ...

Facial recognition technology has been used in shopping centres, museums and conference centres around the UK, an investigation has claimed. ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed by the UN over its surveillance of benefit claimants. Philip ...

A freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed a shocking truth. A police force has admitted to sharing information about ...

Liberty had claimed parts of the Investigatory Powers Act were incompatible with human rights law.

Amazon shareholders voted not to restrict the company's sales of automated facial recognition (AFR) software. And the margin by which ...

Human rights advocates are blasting what they call the "PREVENT lobby" for exploiting the New Zealand massacre in order to ...

A Reuters investigation recently discovered that former US intelligence agents had worked with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dictatorship to hack into ...

The UN has said it has "serious concerns" about an EU bid to regulate online "terrorist content". The EU proposal ...

On Saturday 17 November, thousands of people marched from the BBC headquarters to Parliament Square, denouncing the rise of the ...

A political storm is brewing over Theresa May's government using 'child spies' to catch serious criminals. A human rights group, ...

On 11 June, parliament discussed the counter-terrorism and border security bill in a Commons chamber that was almost entirely empty. The Canary ...

In a leaked recorded speech at a private dinner for Conservative activists on Wednesday 6 June, Britain's foreign secretary and ...

An "official" document from British "counter-terrorism" police lists anti-fascists, animal rights campaigners, and supporters of the Kurdish-led anti-terror fighters of the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has revealed that Amazon has been test-piloting a facial recognition system, in collaboration with ...