Monitoring the Policing of Anti-Fracking Protests
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Talking to the Cops – A Guide for Protest Groups
Acknowledging a renewed debate about the merits and risks for protesters negotiating or communicating with the police, one of the co-founders of environmental group Extinction Rebellion claimed in February that concerns raised by other campaigners were “a proxy for...
Your Rights During Police Trials of Facial Recognition Technology
PHOTO: Big Brother Watch At the end of January, the Metropolitan Police held the latest trials of facial recognition technology that is intended to pick out suspects from crowds, using cameras that scan faces to see whether they match images on a database of targets....
It’s Time to Close Down the Police’s “Domestic Extremism” Databases
Drawing by John Catt, 2011 A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in January, in a case brought by veteran peace campaigner John Catt, is extremely significant for the future of protest surveillance. For seven years John has argued that the decision by the...