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Police asked me to spy on my Black Lives Matter group

Feb 1, 2022 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Protest

Protesters at a Swansea demonstration (photo credit: BLM Swansea) My name is Lowri Davies, and I’m an organiser with Black Lives Matter Swansea. My role is purely organisational; I plan protests, speakers, and sound systems, do the graphics for them, and then get the...

Privacy International launches new guide to resisting high tech police surveillance

Jun 29, 2021 | Comment, Don't Be On A Database

This is a guest post by Harmit Kambo, Campaigns Director, Privacy International 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....

Your Rights During Police Trials of Facial Recognition Technology

Feb 12, 2019 | Don't Be On A Database

PHOTO: Big Brother Watch At the end of January, the Metropolitan Police held the latest trials of facial recognition technology that is intended to pick out suspects from crowds, using cameras that scan faces to see whether they match images on a database of targets....

Police maintain absolute secrecy over counter-terrorism surveillance on anti-fracking campaigners

May 24, 2018 | Don't Be On A Database, Protest

Home Office insists secretive Prevent programme “cannot in any circumstances be considered frightening” Imagine feeling you have to tell your children to avoid talking about fracking at school, in case it is seen as a safeguarding concern. Or experiencing...

Let’s consign the police’s “Domestic Extremist” label to history

Jan 31, 2018 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Protest

The label “domestic extremist” exists to justify intrusive police surveillance on political campaigners The glacially paced Undercover Policing Inquiry, set up in 2015 and still wading through demands by former police officers for anonymity, recently...

Durham Police unveils ‘bodycam intelligence database’

Jul 19, 2017 | Don't Be On A Database

One of the UK’s smallest police forces, Durham Police, is reportedly gathering video captured by officers’ body worn cameras to create a ‘troublemakers’ database – contravening national guidance that officers should not use the technology as an...
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