Global InformationBig Brother Watch information
| Formation | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Matthew Elliott, Alex Deane |
| Type | Advocacy group |
| Location |
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Director | Silkie Carlo |
| Funding | Owned by Mark Littlewood and Lord Strasburger[1] |
| Website | bigbrotherwatch |
Big Brother Watch is a non-party British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation.[2] It was launched in 2009 by founding director Alex Deane[3] to campaign against state surveillance and threats to civil liberties.[4] It was founded by Matthew Elliott.[5] Since January 2018, Silkie Carlo is the Director.[6][7]
The organisation campaigns on a variety of issues including: The rise of the surveillance state, police use of oppressive technology,[8][9] freedom and privacy online, the use of intrusive communications interception powers including the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,[10][11] and the Investigatory Powers Act,[12] the protection of personal information and wider data protection issues.
The organisation is headquartered in the China Works building, Vauxhall, London,[13][14] and previously at 55 Tufton Street, London. [5]
The name "Big Brother Watch" originates from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949.[5]
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Civil liberties pressure group Big Brother Watch has called for better health data security after a study revealed the NHS has suffered an average of six data breaches a day for the past three years.
- ^ "Alex Deane | Senior Managing Director | FTI Consulting". www.fticonsulting.com. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "About". Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2019.[self-published source] The archived link is live; however, the current version (9 Dec 2019) lacks information on when the organisation was founded.
- ^ a b c Cunliffe, Rachel (2021-04-19). "Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo: "The rule of law has broken down"". New Statesman. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "About us". bigbrotherwatch.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
- ^ "New Big Brother Watch Team announced". bigbrotherwatch.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
- ^ Martin, Alexander J.; Cheshire, Tom (August 23, 2017). "Legal questions surround police use of facial recognition tech". Sky News. Sky UK. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.
Four years late on publishing its Biometrics Strategy, pressure mounts on the Government to introduce legal controls. (sub-title)
- ^ Hamilton, Fiona (August 15, 2017). "Body cameras for police have little impact on crime". The Times. England: Times Newspapers Limited. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.
- ^ Bowcott, Owen (November 7, 2017). "UK intelligence agencies face surveillance claims in European court". The Guardian (US ed.). Guardian News & Media Limited. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.
- ^ Gallagher, Ryan (November 7, 2017). "European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed by Snowden Violates Human Rights". The Intercept. First Look Media. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.
- ^ MacAskill, Ewen (November 19, 2016). "'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper". The Guardian. England: Guardian News & Media Limited. Archived from the original on 2016-11-19. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.
- ^ "Contact". Big Brother Watch. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.[self-published source]
- ^ "Way: China Works, Southbank House (170386156)". OpenStreetMap. November 20, 2018. Retrieved 9 Dec 2019.