His work focuses on civil liberties, police powers and surveillance technologies. Chris works for the civil liberties monitoring organization Statewatch and has written for Politico Europe, EUobserver, OpenDemocracy and Público.

Basic information

Name
Chris Jones
Expertise
Civil liberties, police powers and surveillance technologies
Country
United Kingdom

Supported projects

Facing the Future

  • Human Rights
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Security

BRUSSELS - This investigation seeks to uncover the state of facial recognition technology in Europe. The journalists obtained leaked internal European Union documents that reveal law enforcement is lobbying to create a network of national police facial recognition databases.