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North Korea, the surveillance stateThe famously secretive and isolated state is severely punishing citizens who try to reach out and connect with the world beyond North Korea. Phones and computers connecting to the internet and allowing international calls are banned. When people take…
09 Mar 2016 -
Mass surveillance by another nameThe UK government is basically planning to extend existing mass surveillance of all residents of the UK. We're not talking targeted, effective surveillance of people who are suspected of wrongdoing - we're talking blanket surveillance of each of us. We…
Blog post 06 Nov 2015 -
Amnesty writes to warn MLAs over possible GCHQ surveillancePress release 04 Aug 2015
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We need to know why the UK government spied on Amnesty InternationalAt 5pm on the hottest day of the year, an email from a secret court quietly announced that UK intelligence services had unlawfully intercepted and stored our private communications. We had to take the UK government to court to find this out.
Blog post 02 Jul 2015 -
Surveillance tribunal reveals UK government spied on Amnesty InternationalPress release 01 Jul 2015
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David Anderson report: 'radical overhaul' of surveillance laws neededPress release 11 Jun 2015
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Snowden on surveillance, two years on"I have one regret: I should have come forward sooner." Two years since he blew the whistle on the NSA, Snowden blogs on how governments and activists responded to that information, and why we still need to care about mass surveillance.
Blog post 05 Jun 2015 -
Which countries could have access to your data?We know that countries around the world have secret data-sharing agreements, thanks to Edward Snowden. So which countries could have personal information about you?
04 Jun 2015 -
Five human rights issues to look out for following the Queen’s SpeechFrom refugees to mass surveillance - and of course scrapping the Human Rights Act - here's some human rights issues to watch in our new government's first term.
Blog post 27 May 2015 -
Evidence of global opposition to US mass surveillanceOur research shows that around the world, the public don’t want to be spied on by the United States. Yet every day, US government agencies access and store data from our phones, computers and other hardware that lets them know the most intimate details…
17 Mar 2015 -
Regulation of UK surveillance an 'inadequate mess'Press release 12 Mar 2015
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Five reasons to care about mass surveillanceWhat do we mean when we talk about mass surveillance? And why should you care about it? Our Security and Human Rights Advisor blogs on her top five reasons to clue up about mass surveillance, and its threat to your human rights.
Blog post 24 Feb 2015 -
'Historic victory' with today's GCHQ surveillance rulingPress release 06 Feb 2015
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UK government’s mass spying ruled unlawfulWe have won a historic victory against the UK government’s spy agencies, GCHQ, Mi5 and Mi6 over their indiscriminate surveillance practices. The landmark verdict proves that mass surveillance sharing on such an industrial scale was unlawful, and a…
06 Feb 2015 -
Meet 'citizen four' and learn why we should fear mass surveillanceIn 2013, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with 'citizen four'. Their mysterious contact turned out to be Edward Snowden, and their meeting created one of the biggest news…
Blog post 10 Oct 2014 -
The great social media crackdownBlog post 23 Jul 2014 -
Why we're taking the UK government to court over mass spyingWe believe our emails and phone calls with activists around the world have been unlawfully accessed by intelligence services in the UK and USA. Find out how industrial-scale spying by our own governments could be putting human rights activists around the…
14 Jul 2014 -
Snowden's latest allegations suggest human rights workers may have been put in dangerPress release 08 Apr 2014
