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Surveillance

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

Bristol City Council says its mass data gathering tool is designed to protect, not profile the 55,000 families it monitors. But is it pushing school children into the criminal justice system?

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’

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Interviews

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

We are hurtling into a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: an age of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and unparalleled automation in the workplace. Should we be worried? To find out, the Cable spoke to Darren Jones – one Bristol MP who is paying attention

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

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

Features

Uncovering the secret state

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