Category: Surveillance

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Exclusive: groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accountsUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have been warned not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare...

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Reform UK tracked private user information without consent

Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertisingA hidden tracking tool in the website for Reform UK collected private browsing data about potentially millions of...

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Starmer live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners warn

PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new powers after far-right unrestCivil liberties campaigners warned that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on Thursday to expand the use of live facial...

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Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendanceDozens of companies including national leisure centre chains are reviewing or pulling facial recognition...

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Hamas’s stealth attack will be remembered as Israeli intelligence failure for the ages

Israel’s advanced surveillance of Palestinians makes scenes of Hamas gunmen moving through its streets all the more astoundingHamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be...

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Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spacesHome Office officials have drawn up secret plans to...

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