Surveillance

Opinion

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

A Bristol activist turned investigator explains how police spies infiltrated and disrupted left-wing groups over decades and even fathered children with unsuspecting activists. Undercover policing researcher Chris Brian traces the scandal which shook a generation of activists, as a public inquir...

Chris Brian

Reports

Bristol Council questioned over social media ‘spying’

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

Councillors should scrutinise plans to introduce phonebox replacements with potentially worrying surveillance capabilities.

Adrian Short

Bristol and Beyond

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

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Opinion

Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again

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

City

Facial recognition: Bristol research could change the world as we know it

Bristol Robotics Laboratory are developing a facial recognition system that could change the world as we know it.

Simon Oxenham

City

Schools, children’s data… and immigration enforcement

The Cable interviews Jen Persson, director of the national campaign defenddigitalme, which aims to stop the government sharing the personal data of millions of children with a plethora of third parties – and the Home Office.

Daniel Fox
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