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...
May 1, 2018 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
After a two-year battle against five police forces and the regulator dealing with freedom of information, Netpol has secured an important victory for greater transparency of the government’s ‘counter-radicalisation’ strategy, Prevent. After...
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...
Nov 21, 2016 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Protest
The Information Commissioner, in rejecting an appeal by Netpol over the refusal of the police to release details of a programme to ‘deradicalise extremists’, has endorsed unfounded and unsubstantiated links between anti-fracking protests and the threat of...