The UK Labour government is considering assigning digital identities to newborn babies as part of its broader digital ID ...

In another blow to the UK government’s record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that state surveillance practices violated human ...

In December 2016, the EU's highest court ruled that governments keeping emails and electronic communications on a "general an indiscriminate" basis was illegal. In doing so, it pushed the UK's ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. British politicians ...

The UK government has explicitly confirmed that a surveillance bill now making its way through the second chamber could be used to require a company to remove encryption. And even, in some ...

The Metropolitan Police is testing – and fervently defending the use of – facial-recognition technology on their cameras, despite privacy concerns from regular people and various watchdogs. Amid the ...

When Edward Snowden was thrust into the limelight just under two years ago, even the most cynical and paranoid were probably surprised by the all-encompassing nature of the NSA's global Internet ...

Earlier this month, the British government issued a new code of practice for video surveillance and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) solutions that establishes guidelines and best practices ...

Three UK human rights groups have come together to challenge the UK Government and its surveillance operation. The scale of the surveillance conducted by GCHQ was revealed initially by Edward Snowden.

HMRC now requires crypto exchanges to report full transaction and tax residency data for UK users starting January 1.

The UK, which spends more than £2bn on video surveillance each year, is to mark National Surveillance Camera Day on 20 June as part of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. The aim of the ...