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Oliver Hayes

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Oliver Hayes, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

3 declared connections

Kind
Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-oliver-hayes
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Tags uk, campaigner, big-tech-accountability, data-centres, surveillance-advertising, climate-disinformation, coalition-building

Oliver Hayes · 2 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

3 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Oliver Hayes’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity.

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Inferred backlinks

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03 · Background

From the source record.

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UK campaigner; Head of Big Tech & Campaigns at Global Action Plan since 2019, following eleven years at Friends of the Earth (where he led post-dieselgate air-pollution work and was part of the successful legal challenge to the Heathrow third-runway approval). Founder of the international End Surveillance Advertising to Kids coalition and a core organiser within Climate Action Against Disinformation and #PeopleVsBigTech. Lead GAP spokesperson on the Foxglove / Global Action Plan challenge to UK hyperscale data centres, including the August 2025 Woodlands Park judicial-review launch and the February 2026 UK-wide Dirty Data Centres action days.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

4 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. globalactionplan.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-12

    GAP's own team-page profile for Hayes — confirms title (Head of Big Tech & Campaigns), 2019 start, eleven-year tenure at Friends of the Earth, founding of the End Surveillance Advertising to Kids coalition, and organising roles in Climate Action Against Disinformation and

  2. linkedin.com

    Checked 2026-05-12

    Hayes' LinkedIn profile — public-facing professional record

  3. globalactionplan.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-12

    GAP's August 2025 announcement of the Woodlands Park judicial review co-launched with Foxglove — Hayes is the named GAP spokesperson and is quoted on the AI agenda and environmental scrutiny

  4. theecologist.org

    Checked 2026-05-12

    Ecologist 2026 coverage of the UK-wide Dirty Data Centres action days — names Hayes as head of campaigns at Global Action Plan and quotes him on hyperscale data centres putting UK climate targets at risk

Source: entities/persons/person-oliver-hayes.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.