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It closes at 11:59pm on 12 February @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a guide if you’d like some help responding 👉 bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It closes at 11:59pm on 12 February @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a guide if you’d like some help responding 👉 bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
⏰ You have 2 days left to respond to the UK Government's consultation on the legal
framework for police using facial recognition 👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
framework for police using facial recognition 👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 AM
⏰ You have 2 days left to respond to the UK Government's consultation on the legal
framework for police using facial recognition 👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
framework for police using facial recognition 👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
Companies and governments must push back now, lest they enable and copy these practices. Now’s not the time to seek profit by enabling injustice, it’s the time to step up and protect everyone and our data.
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Companies and governments must push back now, lest they enable and copy these practices. Now’s not the time to seek profit by enabling injustice, it’s the time to step up and protect everyone and our data.
With this much data being processed, AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock access to details of our lives for border and immigration agencies.
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
With this much data being processed, AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock access to details of our lives for border and immigration agencies.
The US Government wants to require five years of social media data and ten years of email addresses, including business accounts. Accumulating this most intimate personal data will create an unprecedented immigration system.
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The US Government wants to require five years of social media data and ten years of email addresses, including business accounts. Accumulating this most intimate personal data will create an unprecedented immigration system.
The Trump Administration is expanding its border management systems so that visitors to the US must submit social media, email identifiers, and even DNA data for entry. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The Trump Administration is expanding its border management systems so that visitors to the US must submit social media, email identifiers, and even DNA data for entry. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
If you’d like some help on what to say @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a useful guide here 👉 bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
If you’d like some help on what to say @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a useful guide here 👉 bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
⏰ You have 1 week to respond to the UK Government's consultation on the legal framework for police using facial recognition technology (FRT).
👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
⏰ You have 1 week to respond to the UK Government's consultation on the legal framework for police using facial recognition technology (FRT).
👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
👉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
While gaining profitable defence contracts, venture capital investments in the rapidly growing Shield AI point to the role of private finance, often based in Silicon Valley, in shaping the future of modern warfare.
Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example
Company SnapshotShield AI is a US defence tech startup specialising in AI.
privacyinternational.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
While gaining profitable defence contracts, venture capital investments in the rapidly growing Shield AI point to the role of private finance, often based in Silicon Valley, in shaping the future of modern warfare.
Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
Its products have been used in an ever expanding series of context from war zones, naval operations, policing operations, as well as border and coastal surveillance. This is a familiar pattern: a company building tools of war embedding itself civilian infrastructure.
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Its products have been used in an ever expanding series of context from war zones, naval operations, policing operations, as well as border and coastal surveillance. This is a familiar pattern: a company building tools of war embedding itself civilian infrastructure.
As part of a joint series with @corporatewatch.bsky.social, our latest publication is on defence tech startup Shield AI.
Shield AI’s catalogue of products includes autonomous drones and AI pilots for combat, enabling automated surveillance, mapping, and monitoring.
Shield AI’s catalogue of products includes autonomous drones and AI pilots for combat, enabling automated surveillance, mapping, and monitoring.
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As part of a joint series with @corporatewatch.bsky.social, our latest publication is on defence tech startup Shield AI.
Shield AI’s catalogue of products includes autonomous drones and AI pilots for combat, enabling automated surveillance, mapping, and monitoring.
Shield AI’s catalogue of products includes autonomous drones and AI pilots for combat, enabling automated surveillance, mapping, and monitoring.
The commercial application of military tools spreads oppressive technologies into our daily lives, while lowering the barriers to dubious data practices. Read the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...
Dual-use tech: the Airbus example
Company snapshotAirbus SE (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies by multiple metrics (market cap, revenue and profit) and is the product of decades of mergers between…
privacyinternational.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The commercial application of military tools spreads oppressive technologies into our daily lives, while lowering the barriers to dubious data practices. Read the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...
In 2024, reports emerged indicating that front companies operated by the Russian state regularly purchased Pléiades satellite imagery, used to attack Ukrainian critical infrastructure.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
In 2024, reports emerged indicating that front companies operated by the Russian state regularly purchased Pléiades satellite imagery, used to attack Ukrainian critical infrastructure.
The data from these satellites is widely available for public or private clients and even to consumers upon request via Airbus’ OneAtlas platform.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The data from these satellites is widely available for public or private clients and even to consumers upon request via Airbus’ OneAtlas platform.
This time, we looked into one of the world’s largest aerospace companies: Airbus, which produces a range of dual-use technologies, including earth imagery satellites, such as Pléiades.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This time, we looked into one of the world’s largest aerospace companies: Airbus, which produces a range of dual-use technologies, including earth imagery satellites, such as Pléiades.
Technologies once designed exclusively for military use are now shaping civilian life, and vice versa. Together with @corporatewatch, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Technologies once designed exclusively for military use are now shaping civilian life, and vice versa. Together with @corporatewatch, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles.
You have until the 12th February to fill out the consultation and share your concerns. If you’d like some help on what to say, Big Brother Watch has a useful guide on their website: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
You have until the 12th February to fill out the consultation and share your concerns. If you’d like some help on what to say, Big Brother Watch has a useful guide on their website: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
This announcement undermines the consultation process, and raises concern that the resulting legal framework would serve merely as a rubber stamp for continuing to deploy biometric technologies in a way that may infringe upon human rights, paving the way for a surveillance state.
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This announcement undermines the consultation process, and raises concern that the resulting legal framework would serve merely as a rubber stamp for continuing to deploy biometric technologies in a way that may infringe upon human rights, paving the way for a surveillance state.
This is especially concerning considering that the Home Office is currently publicly consulting on developing a legal framework that would regulate biometric technologies including FRT, which is needed to ensure restrictions and safeguards on their use.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This is especially concerning considering that the Home Office is currently publicly consulting on developing a legal framework that would regulate biometric technologies including FRT, which is needed to ensure restrictions and safeguards on their use.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Biometric technologies such as FRT are highly invasive and have the potential to pave the road to a dystopian biometric surveillance state, where everyone is identified and tracked everywhere they go, in real time, as they get on with their lives.
privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...
privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Biometric technologies such as FRT are highly invasive and have the potential to pave the road to a dystopian biometric surveillance state, where everyone is identified and tracked everywhere they go, in real time, as they get on with their lives.
privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...
privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...
The UK government has recently announced an overhaul to policing including plans to expand facial recognition technology (FRT) vans, from 10 to 50 mobile units, and greater use of artificial intelligence.
www.ukfactcheck.com/article/151/...
www.ukfactcheck.com/article/151/...
Home Office announces £141m plan for national live facial recognition and ‘Police.AI’ centre
Home Office says a £141m plan will deploy live facial recognition nationwide and launch ‘Police.AI’ to roll out AI tools across forces in England and Wales.
www.ukfactcheck.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The UK government has recently announced an overhaul to policing including plans to expand facial recognition technology (FRT) vans, from 10 to 50 mobile units, and greater use of artificial intelligence.
www.ukfactcheck.com/article/151/...
www.ukfactcheck.com/article/151/...
If you're not sure where to start @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a useful guide here: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
If you're not sure where to start @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social has a useful guide here: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
You have until the 12th February to respond to the consultation and tell the government we urgently need specific legislation to restrict the harmful impact of FRT to protect human rights. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Legal framework for using facial recognition in law enforcement
The government is launching a consultation to help develop a new legal framework for the use of facial recognition and similar technologies by law enforcement.
www.gov.uk
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
You have until the 12th February to respond to the consultation and tell the government we urgently need specific legislation to restrict the harmful impact of FRT to protect human rights. www.gov.uk/government/c...
This rapid expansion has been pursued within a legislative void, in the absence of specific legal framework to restrict and safeguard its use. privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
Toward Regulation: Addressing the Legal Void in Facial Recognition Technology
Across the world facial recognition technologies (FRT) are increasingly being deployed in public and private spaces without adequate laws or regulation to protect individuals from the grave risks…
privacyinternational.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
This rapid expansion has been pursued within a legislative void, in the absence of specific legal framework to restrict and safeguard its use. privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
FRT is mass surveillance tool, paving the way to a dystopian surveillance state with the power to track us 24/7, as we go about our daily lives. privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...
UK MPs Asleep at the Wheel as Facial Recognition Technology Spells The End of Privacy in Public
TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE END OF PRIVACY IN PUBLIC1.
privacyinternational.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
FRT is mass surveillance tool, paving the way to a dystopian surveillance state with the power to track us 24/7, as we go about our daily lives. privacyinternational.org/long-read/51...