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By: Silkie Carlo

Silkie Carlo is director of Big Brother Watch, an independent non-profit organisation leading the protection of privacy and civil liberties in the UK.

All 14 Articles
  • Digital IDs and biometric data: Welcome to Labour’s tech dystopia

    Opinion

    The approval of digital IDs heralds is heralding in a tech dystopia, and Labour is welcoming it, writes Silkie Carlo.

  • The Notebook: Labour’s Data Bill could open the floodgates to AI. Why is no one talking about it?

    Opinion

    Enough with 'AI innovation', Labour's Data Bill threatens our privacy and deserves proper scrutiny, writes Silkie Carlo.

  • Allison Pearson: The bar for criminality is rightly higher than ignorant tweets

    Opinion

    Like her or loathe her, the Allison Pearson row shows why we all have a stake in defending free speech, writes Silkie Carlo.

  • The Notebook: Starmer leading like a civil servant isn’t working

    October 14, 2024

    And it is leading to dangerous, unwanted and undemocratic policymaking – like the introduction of bank spying powers, writes Silkie Carlo This weekend marked 100 days of the new Labour government – a period of deliberate doom and gloom rather than honeymoon. As I wrote in my Notebook for this paper upon his election, Sir [...]

  • The Notebook: Labour is charting a dangerous course on free speech

    September 10, 2024

    Labour's proposed expansion of the Online Safety Act is a troubling step for free speech, writes Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo.

  • UK riots: Digital authoritarianism is not the answer to far-right violence

    August 12, 2024

    Far-right thugs deserve to see justice, but Westminster must not use the riots to push through dystopian digital measures, writes Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch Our response to the riots risks digital dystopia These have been dark days for Britain. The shocking scenes of violence and racism following the Southport stabbings are unforgettable. [...]

  • The Notebook: Freedom of speech at risk under Labour’s online safety plans

    July 8, 2024

    Silkie Carlo tells us what to expect from Labour's online safety plans - and how they might put personal rights at risk.

  • The Notebook: The Orwellian use of facial recognition

    June 10, 2024

    Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, takes the pen to talk about the increasing use of CCTV surveillance, wasteful policing in Croydon and a weirdly wonderful production of Cabaret Dystopian nightmares in Orwell’s 1984 now look eerily prophetic This weekend marked 75 years since [...]

  • The Notebook: Facial recognition CCTV is Orwellian. But it also doesn’t work

    May 13, 2024

    Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, takes the pen to talk CCTV surveillance, bank spying powers, and the power of dog adoption.

  • The Notebook: How bank spying powers are being snuck into government bills

    March 25, 2024

    Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, takes the pen to talk about how new spying powers are being snuck into government bills.

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