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Calls for meeting with Home Secretary over undercover policing inquiry ‘crisis’

Campaigners who were targeted by undercover police have called for an urgent meeting with the Home Secretary amid concerns a public inquiry into the issue is at crisis point. Members of groups including Police Spies Out of Lives, the Blacklist ...

09 Sept 2024 at 18:36

Police widening use of live facial scanning with no clear legal grounds – peers

Police use of live facial recognition surveillance is being expanded without clear legal grounds, peers have warned. The Lords’ Justice and Home Affairs Committee has called into question the lawfulness of the deployment of the technology by ...

27 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister

Rolling out more facial recognition vans is not intended to create a “total surveillance society”, the policing minister has said. Dame Diana Johnson said she believes the public would back the police’s use of live facial recognition ...

13 Aug 2025 at 10:16

Northern Ireland

Report into police surveillance of journalists and lawyers to be published

An independent review of covert police surveillance of journalists and lawyers in Northern Ireland is to be published later. Angus McCullough KC was commissioned by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to examine the issue ...

24 Sept 2025 at 02:45

Hilary Benn urged to call public inquiry after police surveillance revelations

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has been urged to call a public inquiry after revelations around unlawful police surveillance of journalists and lawyers. Journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney were speaking after a ...

24 Sept 2025 at 17:33

Northern Ireland

Public trust ‘damaged’ after review into covert police surveillance

Public trust in policing in Northern Ireland has been damaged by disclosures about covert police surveillance of journalists, Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly has said. The McCullough Review, published on Wednesday, investigated the ...

24 Sept 2025 at 17:40

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