[5] The group was established in August 2009 as a Private Limited Company owned by Mark Littlewood and Lord Strasburger[1] and the official launch took place in January 2010 with Tony Benn and David Davis as guest speakers.
[19] In 2018 they supported a debate in the House of Lords which noted the intrusive nature of this technology, the lack of a legal basis or parliamentary scrutiny, and the possibility that it may be incompatible with Article 8 right to privacy under the ECHR.
[20][non-primary source needed] In July 2018, the organisation brought a legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police Service and the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
[25] Big Brother Watch believed this to be the biggest ever deletion of biometric IDs from a British government database.
investigations into local authority data handling, finding more than 1000 incidents in which councils lost information about children and those in care.