Overview
- The joint Al Jazeera and Liberty Investigates report says universities paid Horus Security at least £440,000 since 2022 to track protest activity using open data, including social media.
- Named clients include the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, UCL, King’s College London, the University of Sheffield, the University of Leicester, the University of Nottingham and Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- The investigation also identifies the London School of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Bristol as recipients of Horus briefings.
- At the LSE, a pro‑Palestinian PhD student's posts were flagged and included in daily updates prepared for universities, according to documents cited in the report.
- Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield said they use external checks to spot potential safety risks and denied surveilling students or sharing student data with the firm.