Big Brother Watch has released its report, “The State of Surveillance in 2018.” In the report, the advocacy group covers a number of topics related to the effects surveillance has had on different groups in the U.K., including efforts targeting protesters and marginalized groups, the increased surveillance of children, and the ways surveillance laws harm journalists and lawyers. “The rapid emergence of new surveillance technologies is being matched by their fast and often lawless adoption by private companies and the state. Police forces can watch and track citizens without suspicion, increasingly using algorithms fed with personal information and data scraped from the internet to construct 'suspicion,' assert 'risk,' or even predict crime,” the report states.
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