Looking to speak to anyone in the know about the technical side of how data clean rooms work...DMs open if you're up for a chat. #gdpr

Today's session? Unmissable. But if you did miss it, you're in luck - here's the video: www.mysociety.org/2025/08/19/h... With @jhurfurt.bsky.social ky.social of @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social, Gabriel Geiger of Lighthouse Reports, and Dr Morgan Currie, all offering amazing insights into #FOI & AI.

On Sunday I'm speaking on 'Surveillance States' the Bradford Literary Festival, discussing the explosion of AI-powered policing, facial recognition and the risks this tech poses to our privacy and to civil liberties. @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/survei...

UK airports have been quietly using facial recognition to monitor passengers in departure lounges for 15 years, authorised by a secret new Labour era Home Office order I got hold of - after a year long FOI battle with officials. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

I spent last Saturday in Cardiff investigating the UK's first city-wide live facial recognition deployment. The city was turned into a mass surveillance zone. South Wales Police scanned 175k faces, made 0 arrests & put everyone's privacy at risk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLrX...

Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database. 🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...

Wow, the Home Office are demanding Apple lets the UK government and spooks spy on 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿. This is an unprecedented invasion of privacy on a scale we've never seen before. It must be resisted. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Blair proposing an authoritarian hellscape as a solution to all life's problems, who knew? FFS www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is lazy, knee-jerk policy. Do we really think the killer wouldn’t have been able to acquire a knife from a kitchen? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 In a 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 busy newsweek a Labour(!!!) government trying to grab outrageous powers to turn the welfare system into a digital surveillance state - under the guise of a crackdown on "benefits cheats". The social security system will become a tool for unprecedented state intrusion...

FOI response from Northamptonshire Police, just 540 days late. Outcome? "No information held"...🤦‍♂️

brilliant long read on Humphrey Smith, patriarch of the Samuel Smiths pubs www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

Cash stuffed into bags. Russian espionage. Ransomware gangs. Drugs payments. Kremlin propaganda. Sanctions evasion. My deep dive, reported over the last couple of months, on the two multi billion Russian money laundering networks disrupted by law enforcement yesterday