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    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Tribunal finds ‘serious failings’ by UK security agency over privacy safeguards

      Judges rule shortcomings ‘ought to have been addressed urgently’ by MI5’s board and Home Office

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      UK business & economy
      Surveillance risks ‘spinning out of control’, warns UK workers’ union

      About 60 per cent of employees report workplace monitoring as use of technology rises during pandemic

    • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
      Cyber warfare
      UK spy agency to use AI against cyber attacks and state actors

      GCHQ director says machine learning will help analysts deal with growing volumes of data

    • Monday, 27 April, 2020
      Cyber warfare
      UK intelligence urged to step up AI use to counter cyber threats

      Attacks can bypass human security and spread faster online, report warns

    • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
      Special ReportEducation and Technology
      ‘Surveillance creep’ as cameras spread on campus

      Whether benign or intrusive, monitoring of students and teachers is commonplace in many schools

    • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Facial recognition: authoritarian intrusion or crime-fighting tool?

      Attitudes to state surveillance vary around the world, reflecting cultural and political norms

    • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
      UK watchdog calls for restraint in police use of facial recognition

      Technology should be used by law enforcement only when ‘strictly necessary’, says ICO

    • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
      UK police in U-turn on King’s Cross facial recognition project

      Met and British Transport Police admit to sharing images for surveillance

    • Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
      UK court backs Welsh police use of facial recognition technology

      Campaigners claimed human rights and data protection laws had been breached

    • Monday, 17 June, 2019
      Britain’s ‘intrusive’ spying powers face fresh legal fight

      Campaigners say Investigatory Powers Act breaches European human rights

    • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
      Facial recognition technology violates privacy, claims campaigner

      Legal challenge to police surveillance technique focuses on lack of safeguards

    • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
      Marietje Schaake
      Governments must halt the spread of commercial spyware

      Surveillance tools are for sale to whoever can afford them

    • Tuesday, 14 May, 2019
      MI5 probed over potential data compliance breaches

      UK Security Service at risk of breaking laws to protect public from unlawful surveillance

    • Monday, 22 April, 2019
      News in Focus podcast16 min listen
      How our faces are helping create a new surveillance technology

      The market for facial recognition technology is expected to be worth $9bn by 2022, t…

    • Friday, 15 February, 2019
      Camilla Cavendish
      Returning Isis brides expose a woefully inadequate legal armoury

      Britain must face an uncomfortable reality: some acts that should be illegal are not

    • Friday, 1 February, 2019
      Political espionage
      Foreign Office criticised over scrutiny of UK spy agencies

      Alleged failure to challenge MI6 and GCHQ over use of ‘James Bond clause’ alarms watchdog

    • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
      Internet privacy
      UK’s digital spying agency broke European privacy laws, says court

      European Court of Human Rights rules against GCHQ over collection of online data

    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
      Satellites5 min
      'We scan the whole world, every day'

      How fleets of tiny satellites are democratising surveillance from space

    • Sunday, 4 February, 2018
      Cyber Security
      ‘Great British firewall’ helps block 54m cyber attacks

      GCHQ’s ‘active defence programme’ leads to removal of 120,000 fake websites

    • Sunday, 31 December, 2017
      Social Media
      UK security minister attacks tech groups over encrypted messages

      May’s premiership offers chillier environment than that of her predecessor

    • Sunday, 29 October, 2017
      InterviewUK politics & policy
      CCTV watchdog warns UK police over use of facial recognition

      Surveillance camera commissioner raises concerns over risks to privacy

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2017
      Social Media
      UK spy agencies ‘unlawfully’ shared citizens’ data, tribunal told

      Surveillance watchdog hears of harvesting of social media and financial details

    • Monday, 27 March, 2017
      Instant InsightSebastian Payne
      Amber Rudd has offered no explanation for more snooping powers Premium content

      She fails to explain the need for an encryption back door, writes Sebastian Payne

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2017
      Law
      UK to press EU for loopholes in surveillance ruling

      Home secretary Amber Rudd warns of increase in crime and terrorism

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2016
      Internet privacy
      EU’s highest court declares UK surveillance powers illegal

      Case originally brought by David Davis before his appointment as Brexit minister

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