| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.08.2026 | UK Backdoor Demand Ignites Apple Legal War | Apple intensifies its legal battle against the UK government. Britain demands access to encrypted user data, a move challenging global digital privacy. The UK's Home Office insists on a "backdoor" to British citizens' cloud backup... |
| 04.08.2026 | Apple launches new legal challenge to UK attempt to access encrypted user data, FT reports | LONDON, Aug 3 : Apple has launched a new legal challenge against the British government's latest attempt to create a so-called backdoor to access encrypted customer data, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
The report said Apple last mo... |
| 22.07.2026 | Live Facial Recognition Scanned 131,000 Faces in West Australia Before Law Took Effect | By Scott McCain
Published: Jul 22 2026, 2:40 PM EDT
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| 01.10.2025 | UK orders Apple to give access to encrypted iCloud backups | The UK government has ordered Apple to give law enforcement access to encrypted iCloud backups of British users, escalating a long-running dispute over data privacy and surveillance powers.
The move, first reported by the Financial Times, f... |
| 13.08.2025 | Facial recognition vans rolled out across England in crime crackdown | An additional seven police forces in England will be using ten new live facial recognition (LFR) vans to track suspects wanted for serious crimes, including sexual offences, violent assaults, and homicides.
The rollout, announced by the Hom... |
| 03.06.2025 | AI regulation needs to be smarter in the UK, urges Deepmind boss | Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, has called on UK policymakers and business heavyweights to embrace the “smart regulation” of AI, warning that a failure to do so could prompt unintended harm, or the loss of public trust.
... |
| 30.05.2025 | The Legal Quagmire of Surveillance and Oversight | In the age of technology, the law often lags behind innovation. This is especially true in the realm of surveillance and government oversight. Two recent incidents in the UK and the US highlight the urgent need for a robust legal framework ... |
| 29.05.2025 | AI watchdog slams government over facial recognition rollout | An artificial intelligence (AI) search body has criticised the UK government for accelerating the deployment of facial recognition technology without first establishing a comprehensive legal framework.
The Ada Lovelace Institute has warned ... |
| 18.03.2025 | The Tug of War Over Data Privacy: Apple vs. the UK Government | In the digital age, our smartphones are like treasure chests. They hold our secrets, memories, and personal data. But what happens when the guardians of these treasures face off against the very governments meant to protect us? This is the ... |
| 16.03.2025 | What Apple’s fight over encryption means for your data | Your iPhone holds some of your most private information – messages, photos and personal data secured by encryption, that even Apple itself cannot access.
But a legal battle between the tech giant and the UK government is now testing the lim... |
| 14.03.2025 | Human rights groups challenge Apple’s privacy fight with the UK government | Two UK human rights groups have challenged the government’s attempts to force tech titan Apple to weaken its security systems, saying the process lacks transparency.
The UK government had attempted to force Apple to create a “back door” in ... |
| 14.03.2025 | Court hearing reported to be Apple's appeal against UK order held in secret | Court hearing reported to be Apple's appeal against UK order held in secret
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| 13.03.2025 | Police Could Use Driving License Data for Facial Recognition in New Bill | The UK government’s Crime and Policing Bill could potentially mean that the driving license database could be used by police as a facial recognition database, human rights group Liberty warns.
This would provide UK police with the biometric... |
| 19.09.2023 | UK opens new chapter in digital regulation as parliament passes Online Safety Bill | Controversial U.K. legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services — establishing the comms watchdog Ofcom as the main Internet regulator — has been passed by parliament today, paving th... |
| 31.01.2023 | MI5 breached law with five-year data retention | The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled in favour of the charity Privacy International and human rights group Liberty, in the latest of a series of lawsuits the two organisations have filed against MI5 over alleged mass surveillance p... |
| 20.04.2021 | Comment | Is Increasing Tech Surveillance Undermining Free Speech? | Since the beginning of the digital revolution, technological advancements have had a profound impact on society, government, business and the labour market.
Over the past decade, police forces across the globe have adopted an abundance of m... |
| 11.08.2020 | Court finds some fault with UK police force’s use of facial recognition tech | Civil rights campaigners in the UK have won a legal challenge to South Wales Police’s (SWP) use of facial recognition technology. The win on appeal is being hailed as a “world-first” victory in the fight against the use of an “oppressive su... |
| 29.07.2020 | What Does Schrems II Mean for the U.K.? | Maximillian Schrems is two-for-two. Or, as Austrian complainant Schrems puts it, “The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law.”
Thanks to a different legal challenge from Sc... |
| 07.02.2020 | Facial Recognition Has Its Eye on the U.K. | In the United Kingdom, there is an “eye in the sky” surveilling people on the street—and soon it may know their names. Human rights organizations such as Big Brother Watch and Liberty, as well as British parliamentarians, are challenging wh... |
| 26.08.2019 | Don’t lose focus: Ten reasons to worry about facial recognition technology | By Birgit Schippers, Queen’s University Belfast
Facial recognition technology is spreading fast. Already widespread in China, software that identifies people by comparing images of their faces against a database of records is now being adop... |
| 29.07.2019 | UK High Court rejects human rights challenge to bulk snooping powers | Civil liberties campaign group Liberty has lost its latest challenge to controversial U.K. surveillance powers that allow state agencies to intercept and retain data in bulk.
The challenge fixed on the presence of so-called “bulk” powers in... |
| 11.06.2019 | Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures | A legal challenge to the UK’s controversial mass surveillance regime has revealed shocking failures by the main state intelligence agency, which has broad powers to hack computers and phones and intercept digital communications, in handling... |
| 17.05.2019 | How an immigration crackdown is hurting UK startups | The two people who sat down in reception without an appointment would not leave the startup’s office until the end of the day.
Two months later, a letter followed informing the company it had been suspended from the United Kingdom’s registe... |
| 12.10.2018 | Summary: Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom | On Sept. 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the United Kingdom’s bulk data-collection programs violate human-rights law by failing to incorporate adequate privacy safeguards and oversight—but that mass surveillance and... |
| 02.10.2018 | Police Super-Database Poses a “Grave Risk” to Civil Liberties | Police proposals to create a new ‘super-database’ could pose a “grave risk” to privacy, according to a UK-based human rights group.
Liberty claims that police and government are ignoring concerns that any such database could threaten civil ... |
| 13.09.2018 | European Court Of Human Rights: UK Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights | Yet another vindication of Ed Snowden. Soon after some of the documents he leaked as a whistleblower revealed that the UK’s GCHQ was conducting mass surveillance, a variety of human rights groups filed complaints with the European Court of ... |
| 11.05.2018 | Home Office Backtracks on NHS Data Sharing | Controversial data-sharing agreements between the Home Office and NHS Digital are to be curtailed, according to ministers. Yesterday during the House of Commons debate on the upcoming Data Protection Bill, Conservative Minister Margot James... |
| 01.05.2018 | High Court Says UK Government Can No Longer Collect Internet Data In Bulk | UK civil liberties group Liberty has won a significant legal battle against the Snoopers Charter. A recent ruling [PDF] by the UK High Court says the data retention provisions, which include mandated extended storage of things like web brow... |
| - | UK’s anti-migrant Hostile Environment policy dehumanises us all | For 10 years, the UK Home Office’s Hostile Environment policy has been treating migrants as undeserving of the same fundamental rights as other individuals – in particular their right to privacy.
The name of the policy says it all – through... |
| - | Covid vaccine passports are being considered. And health experts and rights groups are deeply concerned | The U.S., U.K. and European Union are among those considering whether to introduce a digital passport that will allow citizens to show they have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
It is thought some form of certificate system could help stim... |
