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29.04.202516:49
▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/qOSFSu_5P60
Wrongly arrested by facial recognition = nightmare scenario
This Orwellian tech puts us all at risk of misidentifications and false accusations - we can't let this happen
Our director Silkie Carlo answers your questions & explains why we must #StopFacialRecognition
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Wrongly arrested by facial recognition = nightmare scenario
This Orwellian tech puts us all at risk of misidentifications and false accusations - we can't let this happen
Our director Silkie Carlo answers your questions & explains why we must #StopFacialRecognition
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24.04.202511:05
✅Your message to stop Asda from spying on all of us has made the NEWS
💥Asda's been hit by 5,400+ complaints against their Orwellian live facial recognition trial - thank YOU for powering our fight against this intrusive tech
Read The Grocer's coverage of our campaign⤵️
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/asda-receives-thousands-of-complaints-over-orwellian-facial-recognition-trial/703680.article
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💥Asda's been hit by 5,400+ complaints against their Orwellian live facial recognition trial - thank YOU for powering our fight against this intrusive tech
Read The Grocer's coverage of our campaign⤵️
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/asda-receives-thousands-of-complaints-over-orwellian-facial-recognition-trial/703680.article
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17.04.202511:38
⚠️Police are scanning the faces of the masses in #Southwark & #Newham today
A Southwark resident is challenging police use of this intrusive tech after being wrongly flagged & threatened with arrest
We're supporting his legal action - donate today⤵️
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-facial-recognition-surveillance
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A Southwark resident is challenging police use of this intrusive tech after being wrongly flagged & threatened with arrest
We're supporting his legal action - donate today⤵️
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-facial-recognition-surveillance
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09.04.202511:12
🚨The Government wants to develop a Minority Report-style murder prediction tool
The Ministry of Justice is developing a project that uses data from hundreds of thousands of people, including victims and witnesses of crime to build this tool - research by Statewatch reveals.
“We are alarmed by reports that the government is developing a programme enabling machines to predict who might become a murderer.
We know that algorithms can get it wrong, that AI can get it wrong, and that police themselves can get it wrong, even when crimes have already taken place – they must not be allowed to use pervasive technology to target innocent people who have not committed any crime.”
- Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director
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The Ministry of Justice is developing a project that uses data from hundreds of thousands of people, including victims and witnesses of crime to build this tool - research by Statewatch reveals.
“We are alarmed by reports that the government is developing a programme enabling machines to predict who might become a murderer.
We know that algorithms can get it wrong, that AI can get it wrong, and that police themselves can get it wrong, even when crimes have already taken place – they must not be allowed to use pervasive technology to target innocent people who have not committed any crime.”
- Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director
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03.04.202511:55
🚨 Asda is trialling live facial recognition cameras in Manchester
The tech is being integrated into the stores' existing CCTV networks to scan shoppers' faces like a barcode
We must stop this before it becomes permanent - tell Asda to stop facial recognition. Share this post far & wide!
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The tech is being integrated into the stores' existing CCTV networks to scan shoppers' faces like a barcode
We must stop this before it becomes permanent - tell Asda to stop facial recognition. Share this post far & wide!
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27.03.202512:30
⚠️Live facial recognition alert
Police are deploying face-scanning technology in Hackney & Greenwich today
This hugely intrusive technology risks wrongly flagging innocent people as criminals. If this happens to you, get in touch with us⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/live-facial-recognition-what-to-do-if-you-are-stopped-by-facial-recognition-cameras/
Police are deploying face-scanning technology in Hackney & Greenwich today
This hugely intrusive technology risks wrongly flagging innocent people as criminals. If this happens to you, get in touch with us⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/live-facial-recognition-what-to-do-if-you-are-stopped-by-facial-recognition-cameras/
28.04.202512:40
👁"The Government's mass bank spying bill subjects carers like me to an UNPRECEDENTED level of surveillance"
Charlie explains how Labour's proposed financial surveillance powers disproportionately impact benefit recipients
Read⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/as-a-carer-im-outraged-by-the-governments-mass-bank-spying-powers/
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Charlie explains how Labour's proposed financial surveillance powers disproportionately impact benefit recipients
Read⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/as-a-carer-im-outraged-by-the-governments-mass-bank-spying-powers/
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23.04.202511:56
🚨We're planning to drive the “world’s biggest advertising van” to Asda stores across Manchester & warn shoppers about their live facial recognition trial.
But we need YOUR help to send a message to Asda that they cannot ignore.
Donate today to stop Asda from spying on all of us ⤵️
https://donate.stripe.com/28oeXMbbi4Xa6yI288
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But we need YOUR help to send a message to Asda that they cannot ignore.
Donate today to stop Asda from spying on all of us ⤵️
https://donate.stripe.com/28oeXMbbi4Xa6yI288
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16.04.202516:15
Are we living in an episode of Black Mirror?
A murder prediction tool, police arresting a couple over WhatsApp group texts and a Quaker meeting house raid - these attacks on our freedoms belong in science fiction.
Rebecca Vincent writes for City AM⤵️
https://www.cityam.com/whatsapp-arrests-and-sieges-on-quakers-black-mirror-is-already-here
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A murder prediction tool, police arresting a couple over WhatsApp group texts and a Quaker meeting house raid - these attacks on our freedoms belong in science fiction.
Rebecca Vincent writes for City AM⤵️
https://www.cityam.com/whatsapp-arrests-and-sieges-on-quakers-black-mirror-is-already-here
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07.04.202516:31
▶️ WATCH: What’s going on with free speech in Britain?
https://youtube.com/shorts/LBEStR4r_J0
🔸6 police officers RAIDED a couple’s home & arrested them after they complained in a school WhatsApp group
🔸30+ officers stormed a Quaker meeting house in Central London
Now is the time to speak up for free speech!
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https://youtube.com/shorts/LBEStR4r_J0
🔸6 police officers RAIDED a couple’s home & arrested them after they complained in a school WhatsApp group
🔸30+ officers stormed a Quaker meeting house in Central London
Now is the time to speak up for free speech!
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02.04.202511:11
🚨NEWS: Police forces are conducting facial recognition searches on the public every 2 MINUTES
🔸Separately, Essex Police are using this hugely intrusive tech for non-crime investigations
🔸They are also using this tech to investigate low-level crime - our research, covered on the front page of the Telegraph today, highlights
“Police use of facial recognition scanning to identify people in a ‘non-crime investigation’ is deeply Orwellian and demonstrates how police use of this technology is dangerously off the leash” - Madeleine Stone
Read front page news citing our research into police use of facial recognition technology⤵️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/01/police-facial-recognition-crime-investigations-public-spy/
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🔸Separately, Essex Police are using this hugely intrusive tech for non-crime investigations
🔸They are also using this tech to investigate low-level crime - our research, covered on the front page of the Telegraph today, highlights
“Police use of facial recognition scanning to identify people in a ‘non-crime investigation’ is deeply Orwellian and demonstrates how police use of this technology is dangerously off the leash” - Madeleine Stone
Read front page news citing our research into police use of facial recognition technology⤵️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/01/police-facial-recognition-crime-investigations-public-spy/
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26.03.202517:28
▶ Watch: Wrongfully ARRESTED because of facial recognition? https://youtube.com/shorts/usKXFHEu7so?si=SrDAF7zeGprUvS3C
This woman is suing Detroit Police after she was mistakenly detained for attempted murder.
She’s claiming facial recognition was to blame.
We’ve done some digging and there are A LOT of similar claims.
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This woman is suing Detroit Police after she was mistakenly detained for attempted murder.
She’s claiming facial recognition was to blame.
We’ve done some digging and there are A LOT of similar claims.
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25.04.202516:05
👁Labour's mass bank spying bill would treat benefit recipients "as suspects by default” & it is back in Parliament on Monday
Our legal & policy officer, Jasleen, explains why we must fight this Orwellian vision for a welfare surveillance state.
Read⤵️
https://novaramedia.com/2025/04/24/labour-wants-to-force-banks-to-spy-on-their-most-vulnerable-customers/
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Our legal & policy officer, Jasleen, explains why we must fight this Orwellian vision for a welfare surveillance state.
Read⤵️
https://novaramedia.com/2025/04/24/labour-wants-to-force-banks-to-spy-on-their-most-vulnerable-customers/
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22.04.202510:44
💷 Government under fire over plans to take money DIRECTLY from benefit recipients' bank accounts - including in cases of its own errors.
“We should not be giving the government powers to go behind our backs and pilfer through our bank accounts, especially when the purpose is not just to tackle serious fraud but to correct accounting errors" - Jasleen Chaggar
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/watchdog-raises-concern-over-dwp-plan-to-deduct-benefit-overpayments
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“We should not be giving the government powers to go behind our backs and pilfer through our bank accounts, especially when the purpose is not just to tackle serious fraud but to correct accounting errors" - Jasleen Chaggar
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/watchdog-raises-concern-over-dwp-plan-to-deduct-benefit-overpayments
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15.04.202516:37
⚠️Chinese researchers are being granted access to GP records of HALF A MILLION UK patients, a Guardian investigation reveals
Some of these institutions have been blacklisted by other democracies - this presents a huge security risk to the UK.
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/15/revealed-chinese-researchers-access-half-a-million-uk-gp-records
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Some of these institutions have been blacklisted by other democracies - this presents a huge security risk to the UK.
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/15/revealed-chinese-researchers-access-half-a-million-uk-gp-records
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07.04.202512:30
🚨We’re WINNING: UK Court REJECTS Home Office bid to hear Apple’s challenge against Government orders to break encryption in secret
Together with Open Rights Group & Index On Censorship, we called on the court to open Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to the public.
The UK court today rejecting appeals for more secrecy from the Home Office is a win for free speech and privacy in the UK and internationally.
Read the BBC's coverage of our vital work ⤵️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4no
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Together with Open Rights Group & Index On Censorship, we called on the court to open Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to the public.
The UK court today rejecting appeals for more secrecy from the Home Office is a win for free speech and privacy in the UK and internationally.
Read the BBC's coverage of our vital work ⤵️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4no
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31.03.202513:25
🚨News🚨
⚠️Asda has announced today that it is launching a two-month trial of live facial recognition at five of its shops in Greater Manchester.
The technology, provided by FaiceTech, will be integrated into the stores’ existing CCTV networks.
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⚠️Asda has announced today that it is launching a two-month trial of live facial recognition at five of its shops in Greater Manchester.
The technology, provided by FaiceTech, will be integrated into the stores’ existing CCTV networks.
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26.03.202513:19
⚠️Live facial recognition cameras will turn "everyone who walks down the Croydon high street into a walking barcode"
Our Advocacy Manager, Matthew Feeney, speaks with the BBC about the Met installing permanent face-scanning cameras in London.
This Orwellian mass surveillance operation must be stopped.
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Our Advocacy Manager, Matthew Feeney, speaks with the BBC about the Met installing permanent face-scanning cameras in London.
This Orwellian mass surveillance operation must be stopped.
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25.04.202511:38
👁"The risk of a Horizon-style scandal on a massive scale is glaringly obvious when millions are being monitored"
Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan slams the Government's mass bank spying powers which would severely impact the poorest in our society
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/spying-benefits-tory-labour-state-support
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Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan slams the Government's mass bank spying powers which would severely impact the poorest in our society
Read⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/spying-benefits-tory-labour-state-support
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17.04.202516:57
▶️ Watch: "We live in a SURVEILLANCE society"
https://youtube.com/shorts/1HlodC3lzNM
Rugby fans in Wales condemn the use of ‘semi-permanent’ live facial recognition being used to surveil the entire city-centre population.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/1HlodC3lzNM
Rugby fans in Wales condemn the use of ‘semi-permanent’ live facial recognition being used to surveil the entire city-centre population.
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15.04.202512:33
The Times' Crime and Justice Commission - at a summit sponsored by surveillance company Axon - has today called for live facial recognition and digital ID to be introduced.
🤢 Tony Blair told the Commission that these Orwellian technologies are a "necessity"
This obsession with AI-powered surveillance reeks of authoritarianism & would be a hammer blow to our civil liberties (just have a read of the article's comments to see how this has gone down...)
The proposals include:
🔸 Mandatory digital ID (an authoritarian proposal that the British people have rejected time and again)
🔸 The expansion of live facial recognition (recently partially banned in the EU and used by authoritarian countries to suppress dissent)
We all want serious crime tackled and justice to prevail, but building a surveillance state where privacy is threatened like never before is not the answer.
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🤢 Tony Blair told the Commission that these Orwellian technologies are a "necessity"
This obsession with AI-powered surveillance reeks of authoritarianism & would be a hammer blow to our civil liberties (just have a read of the article's comments to see how this has gone down...)
The proposals include:
🔸 Mandatory digital ID (an authoritarian proposal that the British people have rejected time and again)
🔸 The expansion of live facial recognition (recently partially banned in the EU and used by authoritarian countries to suppress dissent)
We all want serious crime tackled and justice to prevail, but building a surveillance state where privacy is threatened like never before is not the answer.
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03.04.202516:20
▶️WATCH: Facial recognition in your city centre
https://youtube.com/shorts/-HRHD5i9Gds?si=DcLPzLJpoNyTH78o
In a UK first, South Wales Police introduced ‘semi-permanent’ AI facial recognition cameras across Cardiff city-centre
🔹160,000 faces scanned
🔹Dozens of officer hours
🔹0 arrests
The evidence is clear - this trial was a huge failure, costing us our privacy & freedom.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/-HRHD5i9Gds?si=DcLPzLJpoNyTH78o
In a UK first, South Wales Police introduced ‘semi-permanent’ AI facial recognition cameras across Cardiff city-centre
🔹160,000 faces scanned
🔹Dozens of officer hours
🔹0 arrests
The evidence is clear - this trial was a huge failure, costing us our privacy & freedom.
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31.03.202511:36
🔓 The government has ordered Apple to create a backdoor that would effectively break encryption for millions of users
Today, Lord Strasburger will ask the Government about this decision's serious impact on our privacy & freedom online.
Tune into the debate at 2:30pm on http://parliamentlive.tv
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Today, Lord Strasburger will ask the Government about this decision's serious impact on our privacy & freedom online.
Tune into the debate at 2:30pm on http://parliamentlive.tv
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24.03.202517:31
▶ Watch: Monitor MPs' bank accounts?
https://youtube.com/shorts/4YD2Nwh57Ro?si=LKfAGl4PSe0Np7Zh
🗣️”If there was a group of people whose accounts we would want to monitor because there has been a history of fraud-it would be MPs” - John McDonnell
The Government’s cruel mass bank spying powers target the poor - they have no place in Britain.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/4YD2Nwh57Ro?si=LKfAGl4PSe0Np7Zh
🗣️”If there was a group of people whose accounts we would want to monitor because there has been a history of fraud-it would be MPs” - John McDonnell
The Government’s cruel mass bank spying powers target the poor - they have no place in Britain.
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