Emma Carr is the Deputy Director of Big Brother Watch and tweets at: @emmafrancescarr
92% of Google users unaware of privacy policy. Are you?
No British citizen’s personal information should be uploaded to the Google cloud until data regulators are satisfied with Google's attitude to privacy
- 4 April 2013
Fighting the draft Communications Data Bill
Don’t let the spin fool you. Any assertion that this Bill will merely add a few more capabilities to law enforcement officers is wildly missing the mark
- 12 December 2012
The moral crusade of default internet blocking and why Government must see it as a nonstarter
Default internet filtering across the UK, mandated by Government, is the wrong way to go about protecting our children
- 6 September 2012
The legacy of suspicions: Why the Protection of Freedoms Act is falling short
We need to take further action to restore the balance of freedom and privacy in modern Britain
- 22 August 2012
Sir Humphrey still calling the shots?
Her Majesty's Government appears to be at odds with the Coalition Agreement and pre-election Conservative policy. Perhaps Sir Humphrey can explain why
- 27 July 2012
We are all suspects now
The coalition's u-turn on internet surveillance is fundamentally illiberal and intrusive. It will do little to improve national security and everything to turn us into a nation of suspects
- 14 June 2012
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook
The Home Office's plans to monitor people's messages online are an unprecedented attack on privacy. Didn't they receive the memo? 1984 was never intended as a handbook
- 3 April 2012
There’s no such thing as a free app
There has always been the age old mantra that ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’, perhaps that should now change to ‘there is no such thing as a free app’
- 6 March 2012
One nation under CCTV
A Big Brother Watch report, released today, highlights that local councils have spent over £515 million on CCTV cameras over the last four years. But the price of surveillance is more than just money
- 21 February 2012
60,000 carried out in 2011 by the Scout Association alone: CRB checks in need of deep reform
The excessive and intrusive Criminal Record Bureau system is not functioning as Parliament intended. Time for reform that cuts deeper than simply ensuring that fewer checks are carried out.
- 13 February 2012
‘Youth Fight for Jobs’ mock the memory of the Jarrow Crusaders
Think you are hard done by? Try telling that to the original Jarrow Crusaders.
- 1 October 2011
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