Privacy
Duncan's career is often defined by his campaign to protect privacy and civil liberties. Below you will find some of his significant works on the subject.
On the record: surveillance, computers & privacyA 1986 book by Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor investigating the massive databanks held by government and public sector agencies, many of which are exempt from Data Protection regulation. |
Secret Society: We're all data nowWatch Duncan's Secret Society episode about government databanks |
Inside the shadow world of commercialised spook spywareWestern and Chinese high-tech companies are competing aggressively to sell, install and manage intrusive and dangerous surveillance equipment for the world’s most brutal regimes 1 December, 2011 |
The day we lost our privacy and powerInvestigative reporter Duncan Campbell reflects how 9/11 has torpedoed resistance to intrusion and undermined the hard fought struggles for citizens' rights to privacy. 10 September, 2011 |
Data dodgersAs few as one in 10 of those supposed to register their use of computerised personal databanks may have actually done so before the 11 May deadline, suspects the Data Protection Registry. 30 May, 1986 |
Records protected - people exposedThe Data Protection Act provides no challenge to the threat to privacy. In delaying and diverting privacy legislation, the authoritarian argument is that there is little to worry about, scant evidence of abuse and no tide of public concern. 16 May, 1986 |
The battle against privacyIn September 1987, Britons will get a new right to inspect the contents of many files held about them. That right has taken 20 years to establish, in the face of the determined resistance of successive governments and their officials. 9 May, 1986 |
Scale of police car-bugging to stay secretThe scale of police bugging 5 July, 1985 |
Computers do not help crime detectionTwo internal Home Office reports obtained by the New Statesman say that it is impossible to show that police 'criminal intelligence' computer systems have any value in fighting crime. 29 June, 1984 |
Security snoopers set up computer networkA national network of computers and access terminals has been set up in secret by MI5, the security service. 2 March, 1984 |
Leaky police dischargeTwo police officers have been discharged from Thames Valley Police following an official investigation of the leakage of police computer information. 14 May, 1982 |
Leaky computers store more recordsThames Valley police have received the go-ahead for the first £1 million of a £4.5 million plan which could increase 100-fold the capacity of their computerised' intelligence system. 20 November, 1981 |
Officer suspended after NS exposeDuncan Campbell on Thames Valley network that gives access to police computer secrets. 30 October, 1981 |
Police secrets for salePersonal details about cars and criminal records can be obtained illegally from the Police National Computer and other computers for between £4 and £15 a check. 23 October,1981 |
Police secrets for salePersonal details about cars and criminal records can be obtained illegally from the Police National Computer and other computers for between £4 and £15 a check. 23 October,1981 |
Every name to be on fileTechnology is changing the nature of British police work, leading the police to supervise society from a distance, rather than regulate it from within. Extract from Policing the Police Vol. 2 21 March, 1980 |
Information ProvidersThe Post Office's new Prestel computer system is to be finally introduced. By Peter Sonner & Duncan Campbell14 September, 1979 |
Keeping tabs on everyonePolice 'local intelligence' files come to light for the first time. 10 August, 1979 |
No figs for data protectionDespite the popularity of the Lindop report on Data Protection, the government continues to drag its feet on privacy and civil liberties legislation. 2 February, 1979 |
Building up the workers' blacklistAnti-union organisation, the Economic League is still hell-bent on persecuting socialism in the workplace. 7 July, 1978 |
New computer for Special BranchThe collating of Met police's intelligence data onto a new central computer could see over 2 million names on file by 1985. 25 August, 1978 |
The secret security computersRead about the vital battles that the Data Protection Committee has lost. 1 December, 1978 |
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