by staff | Dec 10, 2025 | Featured Article
The government has set out plans to expand the use of facial recognition and other biometrics across UK policing, describing it as the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. A national strategy for biometrics The Home Office has launched a ten...
by staff | Sep 12, 2025 | Featured Article
Sainsbury’s has begun testing facial recognition technology in selected stores to identify repeat offenders and reduce shoplifting, triggering a wave of privacy concerns from civil liberties groups. Surveillance trial rolling out in London and Bath The supermarket...
by staff | Apr 16, 2025 | Tech News
A judge has ruled that the UK government’s legal dispute with Apple over encrypted data access must be heard in public, rejecting claims that secrecy was needed for national security reasons. The encryption battle that spilled into the open At the heart of this case...
by staff | Jan 22, 2025 | Tech News
The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has announced robust new measures to prevent children from accessing online pornography, as well as other potentially harmful content, a key component of the Online Safety Act. By July These new regulations will require websites...
by staff | Nov 26, 2023 | Tech News
Computer Weekly recently reported that in an interview with the outgoing England and Wales Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Professor Fraser Sampson, he warned of the declining state of oversight in AI facial recognition surveillance deployment by UK...
