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Silkie Carlo

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Tags uk, london, england-and-wales, university-of-cambridge, politics-and-psychology, civil-liberties, digital-rights, privacy, surveillance, mass-surveillance, biometric-surveillance, facial-recognition, live-facial-recognition, predictive-policing, police-ai, parliamentary-engagement, strategic-litigation, grassroots-campaigning, public-campaigns, investigative-research, ai-and-human-rights, information-security, journalism-and-security, cryptoparty, snowden-defence, coded-bias, director

Silkie Carlo · 4 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

7 adjacencies, by relation.

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03 · Background

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UK civil-liberties campaigner and Director of Big Brother Watch since January 2018, the London-based civil-liberties organisation that has become the British anchor of the European civil-society campaign against live facial recognition. Carlo leads Big Brother Watch's work on state surveillance, policing technology, big data, internet regulation, and AI through what the organisation describes as a four-pillar mode of "parliamentary lobbying, strategic litigation, investigations and public campaigns to successfully change policies and laws", and is the corpus's most consistent named UK civil-society spokesperson on automated facial recognition, biometric mass surveillance, and AI-driven systems in policing and retail.

Before Big Brother Watch she was Senior Advocacy Officer for Technology and Human Rights at Liberty, where she led the legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, and earlier worked on Edward Snowden's official legal defence fund at the Courage Foundation. She is the co-author with Arjen Kamphuis of Information Security for Journalists (July 2014, commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism) and has organised the CryptoPartyLDN series of public information-security workshops, alongside CryptoParties across the UK and Europe, since 2013. She holds a degree in Politics and Psychology from the University of Cambridge.

Under Carlo, Big Brother Watch's Stop Facial Recognition campaign — anchored on the May 2018 Face Off report on the Metropolitan Police's automated facial-recognition trials, the May 2023 Biometric Britain report on the 89%-wrong-match rate across the Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police operational deployments, and the 6 October 2023 Joint Statement on UK Live Facial Recognition signed by 65 cross-party parliamentarians and 31 rights and race-equality organisations — has become the British anchor of the European civil-society position on remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces. Carlo is the campaign's named on-the-record voice, framing the 23 May 2023 Biometric Britain launch as putting "Britain at great risk of following in the footsteps of China and Russia's high-tech surveillance states, with no democratic mandate", and the 6 October 2023 cross-party joint statement as "the greatest involvement parliamentarians have ever had in Britain's approach to facial recognition surveillance".

She is also a named co-claimant alongside Shaun Thompson — the Black anti-knife-crime community volunteer misidentified by Metropolitan Police live facial recognition at London Bridge in February 2024 — in the resulting legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police, the campaign's named individual-claimant test case.

04 · Sources

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  1. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Big Brother Watch's own team page — primary source for her current title as Director, the named portfolio she leads on state surveillance, policing technology, big data, internet regulation, and AI, the org's framing of her four-pillar mode of work as "parliamentary lobbying, strategic litigation, investigations and public campaigns to successfully change policies and laws", her prior career as Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty leading technology and human rights initiatives and challenging mass surveillance powers, her earlier work supporting Edward Snowden's legal defence fund, and her appearance in the Netflix documentary *Coded Bias*

  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Wikipedia biographical article — secondary source for her November 1989 birth, her University of Cambridge Politics and Psychology degree, her January 2018 appointment as Director of Big Brother Watch, her July 2014 co-authorship with Arjen Kamphuis of *Information Security for Journalists* (commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism), her organising of CryptoPartyLDN and CryptoParties across the UK and Europe since 2013, and her appearances in *Coded Bias* (2020) and *2073* (2024)

  3. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Big Brother Watch press release for the 23 May 2023 launch of *Biometric Britain — The Expansion of Facial Recognition Surveillance* — primary source for her Director title in 2023 and for her verbatim launch quote framing UK live facial recognition as putting "Britain at great risk of following in the footsteps of China and Russia's high-tech surveillance states, with no democratic mandate" and calling on the Government to "urgently stop live facial recognition surveillance whilst Parliament has a careful review of the regulations needed"

  4. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Big Brother Watch press release for the 6 October 2023 cross-party joint statement signed by 65 parliamentarians and 31 rights and race-equality organisations — primary source for her named director-level convening role and her verbatim framing of the statement as "the greatest involvement parliamentarians have ever had in Britain's approach to facial recognition surveillance"

  5. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Big Brother Watch's own Stop Facial Recognition campaign page — primary source for her named co-claimant role alongside Shaun Thompson, the Black anti-knife-crime community volunteer misidentified by Metropolitan Police live facial recognition in February 2024, in the resulting legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police

  6. workerinfoexchange.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Worker Info Exchange's own advisory board page — primary source for Silkie Carlo's named role on WIE's advisory board (sitting alongside Professor Veena Dubal, Professor Lilian Edwards, and Reuben Binns) and for her continuing organisational identification as Director of Big Brother Watch

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