Silkie Carlo, director of privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, has led the criticism.

These new surveillance systems ... the state conspiring with a big tech organisation. Hooked into a multitude of listening and watching devices that have escalated around the nation’s unwitting ...

A commemorative coin featuring the image of an eye and the inscription “Big Brother is watching you” is being released to pay ...

The DWP will have powers to obtain bank statements from people they believe have sufficient funds to pay back welfare debts ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefit crackdown has been slammed as "one of the biggest assaults on welfare in a ...

Helpful police tool or Big Brother? That's the question being asked about new surveillance technology that will be able to recognise your face, tell your gender and track your movements. The ...

DRONES policing coasts for drug smugglers and facial recognition tech to tackle terrorists are part of the new Government’s ...

The novel, set in a fictional future, depicts civil servant Winston Smith’s secret rebellion against a totalitarian government and its leader, Big Brother. Orwell, who also wrote the political ...

The first page of Christopher Isherwood’s “Goodbye to Berlin” (1939), the novel that inspired the musical “Cabaret,” includes one of the most famous sentences in 20th-century fiction. “I am a camera ...

Professor Barry Friedman argued at Stanford Law School that legislatures could minimize harms and maximize benefits of data ...