Palantir is the last company that should be allowed anywhere near children’s services. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Palantir is the last company that should be allowed anywhere near children’s services. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Listen to Oliver Hayes, our Head of Policy and Campaigns, and Martha Dark of @foxglovelegal.bsky.social talk on @themaybe.org podcast about the legal challenge we launched against the government’s decision to force construction of a data centre in Buckinghamshire. www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...
NEWS! Foxglove (@foxglovelegal.bsky.social) and Global Action Plan (@globalactionplan.bsky.social) are suing to stop the UK govt's YOLO plans for data centers. Want a 15min brief on the case from @marthadark.bsky.social and @olliehayes.bsky.social? Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...
⚠️ We filed a complaint against the use of two algorithms in UK immigration enforcement operations. privacyinternational.org/long-read/5639/pi-rings-alarm-bell-and-alerts-ico-about-use-algorithms-home-office-and-their-impact
"The deputy prime minister's lack of meaningful scrutiny of this application sends a worrying signal to communities across the country that more and bigger data centres are inevitable." - Oliver Hayes, Global Action Plan, quoted in BBC coverage today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A legal challenge has been launched against a decision to force through construction of a hyperscale data centre in the Buckinghamshire Green Belt. Tech justice non-profit Foxglove and environmental charity Global Action Plan are represented by Rowan Smith. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...
As Rosa says re our data centre challenge "Local people and businesses in Buckinghamshire will soon be competing with a power guzzling-behemoth to keep the lights on, which as we've seen in the states, usually means sky-high prices." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Together with Foxglove, we’re launching a legal challenge against the government’s decision to force construction of a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. Read the coverage in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... @theguardian.com
If you think our environment and our energy and water supplies are more important than the demands of Tech Billionaires, you can support our work to stop the UK Government forcing through environmentally destructive data centres here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...
The Government has overturned local concerns in order to force through a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. They didn’t even bother to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment before doing so. We’re taking legal action against this decision. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/08/21/n...
We are fundraising to cover the legal costs - page here. Please share and contribute if you can. www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...
NEW: we've @foxglovelegal.bsky.social filed a legal case challenging plans for a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire with our friends @globalactionplan.bsky.social. Gov has failed to properly assess environmental impact & huge energy and water consumption. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Important story. Comment from Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social: “It's appalling that this guidance was not only approved, but remained unchanged until a news organisation started asking questions. This is yet more evidence that Meta can't be trusted when it comes to the wellbeing of its users."
💪 All power to our content moderator friends at TikTok in Germany who are on strike after TikTok tried to replace them with AI and outsource their jobs. @social.verdi.de www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
inews.co.uk/news/home-of... @tmsqrll.bsky.social is right re Home Office GenAI in asylum: "decisions can be [..] life or death. You probably wouldn’t want to trust your life to a chatbot making such serious errors that its work has to be thrown out nearly 10% of the time" @foxglovelegal.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article... Catch @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's Rosa Curling @ 6pm on BBC news tonight on Google's GenAI and its terrifying impact on the news industry.
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it. We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
SCOOP: Evidence growing of “devastating impact” for publishers from "AI summaries". Two studies show big falls in clickthrough - one suggesting falls of up to 80%. Google says the studies are flawed, but publishers say the company refuses to provide solid data. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
At Foxglove we are challenging this - more here www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Our research shows the devastating impact of Google's GenAI summaries on news. As Rosa says it'd be "bad enough if Google were simply stealing journalists’ work and passing it off as their own [...] they are using this work to fuel their own tools and profits.”
New: research commissioned by @foxglovelegal.bsky.social shows the “devastating impact that Google’s ‘AI overviews’ are already having on the UK’s independent news industry” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Gov is partnering with OpenAI to use AI in the public sector and we know next to nothing about the deal. We can all see what OpenAI gets - enormous commercial value in helping train the next version of ChatGPT - but what's the benefit to the public? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Peter Kyle seems bizarrely determined to put the big tech fox in charge of the henhouse when it comes to UK sovereignty" - Foxglove director @marthadark.bsky.social on the UK Govt's new deal with OpenAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Spy tech Palantir did the same at the start of the pandemic - they offered the NHS services for £1. Fast forward the contract is worth £480 mill. Google clearly hopes to cash in next. As the saying goes: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
More detail here www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/04/l...
NEW: we @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have lodged complaints with the UK and EU competition authorities challenging an existential threat to independent news: Google's AI Overviews. More here 👇 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Britain's datacentres are already consuming close to 10 billion litres of water per year - and that's before any AI boom by @adamvaughan.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Big Tech is making some alarming suggestions to the UK Govt on crime and justice - an FOI by Foxglove found notes on 'subcutaneous tracking' and computer-prediction of behaviour: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Big Tech's proposals on crime prediction and 'sub-cutaneous' tracking of behaviour were revealed via Foxglove's FOI request to the UK's Justice Ministry - you can read the docs here: www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u... / www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u...
New poll shows huge majorities of Europeans--74% of Von Der Leyen's own CDU--want a tough stance on Big Tech. This is no time to roll over. Tech is vital infrastructure, and it can be ours again--with a three-part play: Break, build, enforce. w/ @robin.berjon.com: www.politico.eu/article/digi...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... “Real-time behaviour monitoring and subcutaneous tracking” to support the health, & “behaviour management” of people under the control of the criminal justice system. What could possibly go wrong with these recs from Big Tech to gov? @foxglovelegal.bsky.social
About half of the UK’s water companies we asked were unable to provide figures on data centre water usage. 🤯 As @dncampbell.bsky.social says “It is deeply alarming that over half our water companies have no clue how many data centres they supply, nor how much water they are hoovering up”
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's investigation into the impact UK data centres have on the UK's critical water resources was covered in @thetimes.com today.
Scale AI "has been accused of exploiting workers in Kenya and the Philippines, paying low wages, requiring long hours, imposing workplace surveillance and closing accounts at will, sometimes without releasing the overdue wages." www.somo.nl/the-next-big...
NEW: When you see a Facebook post which has been blurred, how do you think that safety block happened? This is a story of exposure to extreme violence, outrageous living conditions and making voices heard. With huge thanks to Emmanuel, Foxglove & @marthadark.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/faceboo...
A VERY big welcome to @tmsqrll.bsky.social delighted you've joined us.
“It was people being skinned alive, people slaughtered, child abuse and bestiality. There were many worse things.” We worked with @sanyaburgess.bsky.social for @theipaper.com to tell the truth at the heart of social media: Meta doesn't care about the essential workers fighting to make it safe.
GREAT role with our friends @globalactionplan.bsky.social (working with us too, we hope, to challenge impact of UK data centres on our energy and water supplies) details here www.globalactionplan.org.uk/files/campai...
This follows our investigations recently published in the Guardian and Telegraph exposing the huge levels of emissions new hyperscale data centres will generate. www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Together with our friends at @globalactionplan.bsky.social we've made submissions opposing a huge new data centre in Houghton Regis - we've focused on the HUGE amounts of energy and water it'll use. Read the full subs here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/06/06/f...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... Plans for one UK AI data centre = five(!) times the emissions of Birmingham airport
novaramedia.com/2025/06/04/k... Data centres will not create the thousands of jobs gov would like us to think they will.
peoplevsbig.tech/job-advertis... GREAT job opportunity 🚨 @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... Just one (Northumberland) of hundreds of data centres planned will generate more emissions than Birmingham airport. It's difficult to see how gov will meet net zero 2050 commitment + build data centres on this scale.
🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...
www.theguardian.com/environment/... "By the end of 2025, De Vries-Gao estimates, energy consumption by AI systems could approach up to 49% of total datacentre power consumption"
More on the Home Office's AI trials in asylum decision making from @dncampbell.bsky.social 👇
🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control Must read from Foxglove's Rosa Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-... £330 mill of public money on this Palantir contract and less than 1/3 of trusts are using it. Why? It's not good enough. Great from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & Lucas Amin.
The Home Office has been trialling the use of AI to process asylum claims. Asylum decisions are some of the most serious gov makes - wrong decisions put lives at risk. The trial has a 9% inaccuracy rate - clearly this system shouldn't be used. www.context.news/ai/ai-will-h...
Great to see our investigation into #Meta 's hidden content moderators in #Ghana featured on the BBC They spoke to one of our sources, Solomon, who attempted suicide because of a mental health crisis he says was brought on by his work @tbij.bsky.social Listen here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Together with @gmbmidlands.bsky.social we are in court tomorrow supporting 900+ Amazon workers to challenge Amazon's union busting in Coventry. More here 👇 inews.co.uk/news/amazon-...
I spoke to BBC Newshour this morning (despite a partially lost voice!) about the situation for Meta's content moderators in Accra, Ghana. Minute 32 onwards. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More on Meta's moderation operations in Ghana and our investigation here 👇 www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/04/28/m...
Since #Meta was hit by workers' rights lawsuits in #Kenya, it moved it outsourcing operation to a secret new location. We found them, in Ghana, where conditions appear to be even worse than those documented in Kenya. 👇
Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators
Meta’s new content moderation operation was kept a closely guarded secret – that didn’t stop us … We’ve uncovered one of the company’s new operations in Ghana – where moderators continue to struggle with poor mental health, low wages and actively being silenced (3/4)
Meta has gone to great lengths to hide its content moderation operation, where workers are tasked with reviewing disturbing content Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
NEW: after union busting / sacking ALL content moderators in Kenya, Meta moved the work to Ghana. To even worse conditions. Foxglove & partners are investigating. More soon. Great from @tbij.bsky.social & @theguardian.com @clairelwilmot.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
BREAKING: Google loses the adtech case, has unlawful monopoly over advertising tech. HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
The lawsuit, brought by @marthadark.bsky.social and team at Foxglove alongside its Kenyan partners, claims Meta not only failed to remove incitements to violence—it amplified them. And it gave African users less protection than others, violating Kenya’s constitutional guarantees.
Had a blast in London last week hosting @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Seyi Akiwowo, and @marthadark.bsky.social for a CSM live show with 80 friends. You can listen to the show + takeaways from the convo w @georgiaiacovou.com and I here: www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/ai-c...
The $1.6B suit against Meta brought by @marthadark.bsky.social & Foxglove Legal alleges Meta played a key role in fueling Ethiopia’s civil war by amplifying hate speech & failing to remove threats. If the case succeeds, it will set a global precedent. www.compiler.news/kenya-lawsui...
BREAKING: A case against Meta over hate speech and ethnic violence revealed by TBIJ will go ahead in Kenyan courts www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
🏆 Today the court ruled our case challenging Meta’s role in inciting hate and violence in Ethiopia can go ahead. Congrats Abrham, Fisseha and Katiba Institute! 🥳 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Great win by Tanya here 🥳
🚨 Foxglove is looking for a brilliant lawyer to join us as Head of Legal. All the info and how to apply is here👇please share far and wide🙏 www.foxglove.org.uk/head-of-legal/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... agreed completely.
It's difficult to see how UK water companies will be able to confidently say they could meet demand for billions of pounds worth of data centres the government wants to build – & keep our taps running. More on this soon.
NEW: UK's biggest water supplier (Thames Water) has no idea how much water UK data centres use Foxglove's investigations show. Great from @zsk.bsky.social 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex Amazon boss appointed to lead the CMA. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Exactly the wrong call in this moment.
ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Foxglove & @globalactionplan.bsky.social made subs at an inquiry into a proposed Bucks data centre on Weds. We raised the dearth of info about environmental impact, vague details on environmental 'benefits' promised & lack of accountability measures. More here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/12/13/w...
President Ruto waded in to our cases on Monday. Core to the case is: can Meta be sued in Kenya? Multiple courts inc Court of Appeal said yes. Now new legislation has been proposed to stop Big Tech being sued in Kenya. @billyperrigo.bsky.social time.com/7201516/keny...
In Oct, in our case against Meta the Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled Meta CAN be sued in Kenya by Content Moderators. A Senate bill was then proposed aiming to stop workers suing Big Tech in Kenya. Read what workers are saying about it here nation.africa/kenya/busine...
Brilliant @CBSNews coverage of the exploitation of tech workers in Kenya by American tech giants like OpenAI and Meta today. www.cbsnews.com/news/labeler...