My Resources

This library contains legislation, case law, academic literature, policy reports, and official publications that inform the research published on this website. The collection is continuously updated as new projects are undertaken and emerging developments are analysed.

While individual papers include recommended reading sections, this page serves as a central repository of sources relevant to the broader themes of technology, human rights, surveillance, artificial intelligence, national security, and state power.

  • United Kingdom

    • Human Rights Act 1998

    • Data Protection Act 2018

    • Equality Act 2010

    • Investigatory Powers Act 2016

    • Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

    • British Nationality Act 1981

    • Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

    • Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

    • Immigration Act 2014

    • UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)

    International Instruments

    • European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

    • Article 8 ECHR

    • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

    • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 15)

    • 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

    • Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

  • Facial Recognition & Surveillance

    Bridges v South Wales Police [2020] EWCA Civ 1058

    Key UK authority on live facial recognition technology and Article 8 ECHR.

    Peck v United Kingdom (2003) 36 EHRR 41

    Privacy rights in relation to surveillance conducted in public spaces.

    S and Marper v United Kingdom (2008) 48 EHRR 50

    Retention of biometric data and DNA information by the state.

    Big Brother Watch and Others v United Kingdom (2021) 72 EHRR 17

    Mass surveillance and bulk interception powers.

    R (Catt) v Association of Chief Police Officers [2015] UKSC 9

    Police collection and retention of personal information.

    Citizenship Deprivation & National Security

    Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 7

    Leading authority concerning Shamima Begum and citizenship deprivation.

    Pham v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 19

    Citizenship deprivation and proportionality.

    Al-Jedda v United Kingdom (2011) 53 EHRR 23

    Citizenship deprivation and statelessness.

    K2 v United Kingdom (2017) App No 42387/13

    Deprivation of nationality and Article 8 ECHR.

  • Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

    Opinion: The Use of Live Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement in Public Places (2019)

    Key guidance on facial recognition and privacy rights.

    Guidance on AI and Data Protection

    Important guidance regarding artificial intelligence and personal data.

    Home Office

    Surveillance Camera Code of Practice

    Guidance governing surveillance systems and public space monitoring.

    Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

    Annual Reports

    Oversight of biometric technologies and surveillance practices.

    House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee

    Technology Rules? The Advent of New Technologies in the Justice System (2022)

    Examination of emerging technologies within policing and justice.

    Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

    Reports on algorithmic governance, artificial intelligence and public sector use of technology.

  • Surveillance & Privacy

    David Lyon

    The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life (Polity Press 2018)

    David Murakami Wood and Kirstie Ball

    A Report on the Surveillance Society (Information Commissioner 2006)

    Neil Richards

    Intellectual Privacy (Oxford University Press 2015)

    Andrew Murray

    Information Technology Law (4th edn, Oxford University Press 2019)

    Paul De Hert and Serge Gutwirth

    'Privacy, Data Protection and Law Enforcement'

    Citizenship & National Security

    Audrey Macklin

    'Citizenship Revocation, the Privilege to Have Rights and the Production of the Alien' (2014)

    Ayelet Shachar

    The Birthright Lottery (Harvard University Press 2009)

    Patrick Weil and Nicholas Handler (eds)

    Citizenship and Its Discontents (Lexington Books 2017)

    Artificial Intelligence & Predictive Policing

    Andrew Ferguson

    The Rise of Big Data Policing (New York University Press 2017)

    Cathy O'Neil

    Weapons of Math Destruction (Penguin 2017)

    Virginia Eubanks

    Automating Inequality (St Martin's Press 2018)

    Frank Pasquale

    The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press 2015)