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It’s King’s Speech week, with Parliament set to discuss the government’s new legislative agenda. For those watching closely, here are Big Brother Watch’s key things to look out for in the debate:
1. Facial Recognition – Lights, Camera, we need Action
After a decade of police forces experimenting on the public with facial recognition technologies...
Responding to the Prime Minister’s statement following recent attacks on Jewish communities and calls to curb lawful protest, Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch’s director said:
The recent attacks on our Jewish communities are attacks on us all. Acts of terror seek to divide us, undermine our freedoms and destabalise the democracy that defines us. They th...
This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of ‘ping-pong’ to land on the specific form that these restrictions will take, and there has been no shortage of ideas. Tory peer Lord Nash’s proposals would introduce a blanket ban on all social media for under-16s, while the governme...
Alvi Choudhury, a British software engineer, was wrongly accused of being a criminal by facial recognition. He was arrested in his home in Southampton for a crime committed by someone else in Milton Keynes, a city he never visited.
Separately, Rennea Nelson – a midwife who herself was six months pregnant at the time – was wrongly arrested after a B&M shop in Essex ...
A roofer was hauled to court after facial recognition mistook him for someone else. He was wrongly arrested at a live facial recognition deployment, held in custody for 24 hours and taken to court before getting his name cleared.
Jack Coulson of Big Brother Watch said:
“It used to be ‘computer says no’, now it’s ‘computer says arrest’.
The police are maki...