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UK's Mass Facial-recognition Roll-out Alarms Rights Groups

Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are now having their features scanned by real-time facial-recognition systems in the UK -- the only European country to deploy the technology on a large scale.

International Business Times · Aug 24, 2025

UK agrees to drop its Apple encryption backdoor request – but digital rights experts aren't ready to celebrate

For now, the power to undermine encryption remains in the UK law under the Investigatory Powers Act. Digital rights experts now call for an amendment.

TechRadar · Aug 19, 2025

OPINION - Hate giving personal details to strangers? That's why we need digital ID

It’s a dance we’ve all done. Perhaps you’re renting a flat, or applying for a new mobile phone contract. The time comes to prove that you are who you say you are, that you live where you say you do and that you have the right to do everything you…

Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025

‘My parents weren’t impressed at first, but now I do my mum’: meet some of the world’s best tattoo artists

Tattooing is constantly evolving and the most-sought after artists are superstars. Here, five of the best reveal what the craft means to them

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022

Record 28 countries rated ‘very bad’ in press freedom index

Myanmar and Hong Kong among worst performers while UK ranked 24th and US 42nd

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2022

Judge approves Assange extradition

"Politically motivated" charges against Assange "should never have been brought in the first place," Amnesty says

Salon · Apr 20, 2022