Surveillance

Reports

University of Bristol paid private security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine protesters

Bristol is among 12 UK universities using Horus Security to monitor protest groups, raising fears of growing campus surveillance

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Profiling Power

Surveillance isn’t safeguarding: Think Family and the fight for transparency

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Opinion

Police spies, broken lives and one of the UK’s longest-running public inquiries

Chris Brian

Reports

Bristol Council questioned over social media ‘spying’

Councillors are asking whether the “surveillance”, which they say was “covert”, needed authorisation.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Interviews

Artificial intelligence, robots, and the future of society: interview with Darren Jones

Sandi Dheensa and Michael Cox

Opinion

Opinion: Bristol’s new phoneboxes could end up spying on you

Adrian Short

Bristol and Beyond

National report slams police ‘digital stop and search’ following Cable investigation

Following a Bristol Cable investigation in 2017, charity Privacy International have today published a new report on the technology UK police forces are secretly using to download all the content and data from people’s phones.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Opinion

Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again

We need to act fast to defend our civil liberties or, like the frog in the pot, we could too late find ourselves in a very different climate.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Features

Uncovering the secret state

The Cable interviews veteran investigative journalist Duncan Campbell about blowing open state surveillance – and being targeted by security services.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Investigations

Campaign: stopping IMSI-catcher surveillance

The Cable is launching a national campaign calling for police to come clean on IMSI-catchers, and to ban this intrusive technology.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Reports

Bristol Uni named in UK spy agency tribunal

A tribunal has been told that UK spy agencies MI5 and MI6 may be breaking the law when they share data with foreign intelligence agencies...

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Voices

Opinion: Engineers can’t ignore social responsibility

“If we are going to look with pride on how our tools make positive contributions to the world, we must also accept some responsibility for...

Ben Marshall
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