Jul 12, 2019 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
Photo: Shutterstock A London university employed a former senior police officer as its head of security. Now he has left after unlawfully sharing a student protest ‘watch list’ with former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police. Last week, Kings College London...
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...
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...
May 21, 2016 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Rights
While most of the media insisting this week’s Queen’s Speech was largely overshadowed by the EU referendum, one new law proposed this week looks set to create even more controversy as existing ‘anti-radicalisation’ legislation, already...