Big Brother Watch produces regular investigative research papers on the erosion of civil liberties in the UK.
Whether it be by placing microchips in rubbish bins or snooping on your family using covert surveillance, we will name and shame the local authorities most prone to authoritarian abuse.
We champion individual cases. We want to use the legal system to help the man in the street fight injustice and regain his personal freedom; we are building up a legal fund to back such cases.
We will help you use the Freedom of Information Act to demand to see data held about yourself by the authorities, to extend our right to government information and to unearth the reality of the Big Brother state.
We want Big Brother Watch to become the central hub for the latest news and debates on personal freedom and civil liberty — a forum for information and discussion on something that directly affects British citizens in their everyday lives.
Big Brother Watch also aims to expose the extent to which the web has become the first line in state surveillance. The floodgates for the co-opting of internet activity into the state’s control have opened, as companies are leant on to release online personal data. Safeguards are needed before it’s too late.
We hope Big Brother Watch will become the gadfly of the ruling class, a champion for civil liberties and personal freedom — and a force to help a future government roll back a decade of state interference in our lives.
"Big Brother Watch comes along at the most crucial moment for privacy in Britain. Its energy and integrity will make a huge contribution to protecting our most fragile and endangered right"
Simon Davies, Director of Privacy International
"The excellent Big Brother Watch group, which has chronicled Britain’s descent into one gigantic film set for the 1984 remake"
Ed West, Journalist, Daily Telegraph
"Glad you have come on the scene to pick up this ball and run with it so effectively"
Henry Porter, civil liberties writer and commentator
"Big Brother Watch's distinctive media-friendly approach draws more public attention to the growth of the surveillance state"
Guy Herbert, General Secretary of NO2ID
"Only occasionally alarmist, Big Brother Watch are generally sound"
Jane Fae Ozimek, Journalist, The Register
