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...Labour's terrifying attempts at social engineering have given Big Brother Watch their first front page hit. This morning's Metro had their headline and a quote from them rolled out across every bus and train in the country. Not bad for an operation that has only just set up..!
...Big Brother Watch informs us that the latest Police State-style legal change is that restraining orders can now be maintained even after acquittal, and for any offence now, not just harassment as previously. What a surprise...
...But campaign group Big Brother Watch said of his plans for teenage mothers: "It sounds like going back to the Victorian era of hiding away the poor unfortunate souls of British society..."
...The idea that Gordon Brown is some latter day Mr Bumble from the era of Oliver Twist shows just how disjointed and ill thought through so much of his speech was. Big Brother Watch has already picked up on the fact this is a recycling of a Blair announcement from 1999...
The European Journal - Personal data of UK taxpayers could be shared around EU
...Alex Deane, from Big Brother Watch, comments on The European Foundation's report “Surveillance State: European Commission plans EU-wide information sharing of UK taxpayers’ details...”
...Big Brother Watch, led by that tower of soundness Alex Deane, has launched its blog. Enjoy - unless you are an authoritarian..!
Monday 28th September 2009
Conservative Home - The DNA database: a part of you, forever in the Government’s hands
...In the European Court of Human Rights 2008 decision S and Marper v the United Kingdom, in the course of finding unanimously against the UK, the court rejected the legitimacy of this country’s policy of indefinite retaining DNA samples taken from individuals that had not been convicted of any offence...
Friday 25th September 2009
Conservative Home - Control Orders
...Yesterday brought the news that another person subject to a Control Order has been released after the Government declined to make known to him the reasons that he has been detained. It is a standing affront to the rule of law that anyone’s liberty is curtailed without knowing the details of the charges against them...
Thursday 17th September 2009
Cambridge News - Tories 'Will reduce Big Brother snooping'
...Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said "It's good that the Conservatives are alive to the Government's excessive surveillance and data gathering...however, the report says nothing about the worrying problem of excessive CCTV recording and chooses to limit rather than remove powers to monitor citizens through data chips in rubbish bins and other household goods..."
Human Events - Who Watches Big Brother?
...In the last decade Britain’s government has become increasingly overbearing, creating a nation of criminals out of good British citizens. The movement of power over our lives between the bureaucracy and individuals has all been in one direction. It’s time to push back...
Conservative Home - Spot the difference
...I paid closer attention to this because of my role with Big Brother Watch - most of us just stick these things from the credit card companies in the bin (certainly, I used to). Well, spot the difference...
Wednesday 16th September 2009
Daily Express - 'We'll End Snooping By The State'
...Alex Deane, director of the anti-snooping campaign organisation Big Brother Watch, said: “It’s good that the Conservatives are alive to the Government’s excessive surveillance...”
The Herald (Scotland) - Conservatives would cut back ‘Big Brother’ state
...Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, a new campaign group, welcomed the report. "Families are becoming increasingly concerned about the way in which the state accumulates and retains personal information on their lives..."
BBC Radio Humberside - The Peter Levy Show - Interviewed Alex Deane, Director of Big Brother Watch
24dash.com - Conservatives unveil plans to cut state surveillance
...Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said "It's good that the Conservatives are alive to the Government's excessive surveillance and data gathering...however, the report says nothing about the worrying problem of excessive CCTV recording and chooses to limit rather than remove powers to monitor citizens through data chips in rubbish bins and other household goods..."
Conservative Home - Monitoring the monitors of the Surveillance State
...I’m glad that the Conservatives are alive to the Government’s excessive surveillance and data gathering, and their pledge to scrap the National Identity Database is particularly encouraging. That’s the sort of firm commitment Big Brother Watch intends to hold the next government to...
Monday 14th September 2009
The Australian Conservative - New UK think tank will watch Big Brother
...After four years at the Bar in London, barrister Alex Deane this week joins the team at the TaxPayers’ Alliance as director of a new TPA campaign group, a legal affairs think tank called Big Brother Watch...
Tuesday 8th September 2009
Liberal Vision - Guest Post: Big Brother Watch is here
...We feel that Britain is at a crucial point and, as more and more of our personal data is transferred across the internet and held on computers, there has never been a more important time for us to stand up and face down the measures which threaten our civil liberty...
Sunday 6th September 2009
Blaney's Blarney - Watch out, Big Brother: we're coming to get you...
...Now the TPA is turning its attentions to civil liberties issues with Big Brother Watch, as revealed by Matthew Elliott in The Sunday Times today. Led by calmly reassured Alex Deane and the energetic Dylan Sharpe, Big Brother Watch will be tackling civil liberties issues but not from the traditionally whining angle beloved of the likes of Cherie Blair...
Conservative Home - The TaxPayers' Alliance enters its third phase with launch of 'Big Brother Watch'
...Phase three (of the TaxPayers' Alliance) kicks off today and involves the recruitment of CentreRight's very own Alex Deane and also former adviser to Boris Johnson, Dylan Sharpe. Together they'll be overseeing 'Big Brother Watch'...
Sunday Times - Think tank: Be warned, Big Brother, I’ve got my eye on you
...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...
