Episode 03
Who Should Have The Right to Watch Over You?
This week we are speaking with Griff Ferris from Big Brother Watch about exactly Who Should Have The Right To Watch Over You? Big Brother Watch aims to expose and challenge threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Their work includes research around facial recognition and biometrics, access to communications data, and digital surveillance. Their most recent campaign #FREESPEECHONLINE focuses on the risks of censorship online.
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Resources:
Learn more about Big Brother Watch and their work by visiting their website: www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/
Facebook: @bigbrotherwatch
Find out more about volunteering : https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/about/work-with-us/
Privacy International: https://www.privacyinternational.org/
Bytes for All: https://www.facebook.com/BytesForAllPakistan/posts
Egyptian Centre for Civil Rights Education in Egypt: https://facebook.com/www.echre.org/
Police use of commercial marketing data in predictive AI system incl. racist profiles and stereotypes
Full details: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/police-use-experian-marketing-data-for-ai-custody-decisions/
UK councils using AI and automated systems to make welfare and social services decisions
A letter to the UN from Big Brother Watch: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/EPoverty/UnitedKingdom/2018/NGOS/BigBrotherWatch.pdf
Investigation into HMRC taking voice ID biometrics
Full details: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2018/06/hmrc/
Our campaign Victims Not Suspects to protect victims of sexual violence against intrusive information gathering
Campaign: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-campaigns/victims-not-suspects/
Letter to the Information Commissioner from Big Brother Watch: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Letter-to-the-ICO-redact.pdf
Big Brother Watch report on how surveillance impacts and oppresses different vulnerable groups in society
The State of Surveillance: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The-State-of-Surveillance-in-2018.pdf
Police live facial recognition technology
Big Brother Watch report: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Face-Off-final-digital-1.pdf
Big Brother Watch campaign: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-campaigns/face-off-campaign/
Big Brother Watch legal challenge: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/face-off/
Huawei Effect Threatens China’s Spy-Tech Champion: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-07/huawei-effect-threatens-china-s-spy-tech-champion
Want To See Your Dystopian Future? Look at China: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-17/want-to-see-your-dystopian-future-look-at-china