Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) — Twitter Score 19 out of 1000

Big Brother Watch is a UK civil liberties and privacy campaign group that opposes surveillance risks posed by central bank digital currencies and other threats to personal freedoms. Big Brother Watch's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #50,321 among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Big Brother Watch was founded by Matthew Elliott and has operated as an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organisation funded by public donations and grants. Silkie Carlo serves as its Director. The group has received backing from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, and formerly received support from Open Society Foundations, the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust, and the Digital Freedom Fund. It is also affiliated with the New Economics Foundation.

Big Brother Watch runs the "No Spycoin" campaign, which opposes the introduction of a UK central bank digital currency on the grounds that it would erode financial privacy and enable state surveillance. The group draws a clear distinction between decentralised cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and state-issued digital currencies, arguing the latter carry fundamentally different risks to civil liberties. Big Brother Watch published a report titled "CBDC, A privacy eroding pound", examining digital currency trials, and submitted a formal response to the Bank of England and HM Treasury consultation on a digital pound.

Big Brother Watch has published 17,596 posts on the platform and has 137,561 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 17 accounts, with 59 mentions in total.

Who follows Big Brother Watch on X?

The accounts that follow Big Brother Watch include 75 founders, 7 angel investors and 47 influencers. Among them are Marc Andreessen, smolting wassie, verse, Michael Arrington, Seraphim, Peter McCormack and Spencer Bogart.