#bigbrotherwatch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigbrotherwatch, aggregated by home.social.
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This was stupidly difficult to find. It's the results of #BigBrotherWatch and Shaun Thompson's appeal against #LFR technology in #London being judged invalid by the courts. NOBODY SAVED THIS BUT ME.
https://archive.org/details/ac-2024-lon-001764
#Privacy #PrivacyIsDead #ResistanceFailure
All the news said the tech will now be rolled out across the entire country but none cited that either. #Palantir is trending on #Bluesky for their data leaks, so I wanted to clue you lot in to this as well.
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This was stupidly difficult to find. It's the results of #BigBrotherWatch and Shaun Thompson's appeal against #LFR technology in #London being judged invalid by the courts. NOBODY SAVED THIS BUT ME.
https://archive.org/details/ac-2024-lon-001764
#Privacy #PrivacyIsDead #ResistanceFailure
All the news said the tech will now be rolled out across the entire country but none cited that either. #Palantir is trending on #Bluesky for their data leaks, so I wanted to clue you lot in to this as well.
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@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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Digital ID plans TORN APART in intense Parliament committee session
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📰🚪 When the Pentagon decided to play editor-in-chief, journalists collectively channeled their inner teenage rebels and said "No, thanks" to Big Brother's loyalty oath. Now, the news is as independent as a fourteen-year-old with a curfew, and the "free press" is just an ironic punchline. 😂🔒
https://archivethecontrolstack.substack.com/p/archive-003-badges-surrendered-the #PentagonPressFreedom #TeenRebellion #IndependentJournalism #FreePressIrony #BigBrotherWatch #HackerNews #ngated -
2 million !
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194#no2id #digitalId #idCard #idCards #ukpol #labour #privacy #bigBrotherWatch #openRightsGroup
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1.2 million and counting have said
"Do not introduce Digital ID cards"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194Have you ?
#uk #ukpol #labour #idCard #idCards #no2id #bigBrotherWatch #openRightsGroup
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National ID cards in the UK? No. Just no. The route towards more surveillance and control by the state is a dangerous path.
If you feel the urge, please sign the petition here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/reject-plans-for-a-mandatory-britcard-digital-id
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Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID
#HackerNews #RightsGroups #DigitalID #Starmer #UKPolitics #PrivacyRights #BigBrotherWatch
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Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected | Big Brother Watch
Our groundbreaking new report, ‘Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected’ is a timely response to the Government seeming to be on the brink of forcing every UK adult onto a giant digital ID system – all in the name of tackling illegal immigration.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/
#bigBrotherWatch #censorship #digitalId #idCards #identity #immigration #surveillance #uk
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Sainsbury's, the UK's second largest supermarket chain, has begun an eight-week trial of facial recognition technology in two of its stores as part of its efforts to address the escalating problem of shoplifting and retail crime.
#sainsburys #privacy #bigbrotherwatch #bbw #facialrecognition
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#NETPOL: Facial recognition at protests: a guide for protesters and legal observers
This is a guest post by #BigBrotherWatch.If your custody image has ever been taken by the police, but your charges were dropped or you were found not guilty, you can apply to have your custody image deleted. We recommend you do so, to reduce the likelihood of your facial biometrics being retained (unlawfully) and used in facial recognition watchlists
#press #news #media #BreakingNewshttps://netpol.org/2023/07/31/facial-recognition-at-protests/
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#UKGovernment expands #police use of #FacialRecognition vans
by Kate Whannel, August 13, 2025
"More live facial recognition (#LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced.
"The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras, which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people.
"The government says the technology has been used in London to make 580 arrests in 12 months, including 52 registered sex offenders who breached their conditions.
"However, campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said the 'significant expansion of the #SurveillanceState' was 'alarming'.
"Live facial recognition was first used in #England and #Wales in 2017 during the Uefa Champions League final football match in Cardiff."Since then its use has largely been confined to #SouthWales, #London and #Essex including at a Beyoncé concert to scan for paedophiles and terrorists [like elderly Palestine Action activists!]
"The government is now funding 10 vans equipped with LFR to be shared between seven forces, approximately doubling the number of vehicles.
"The seven forces are Greater #Manchester, #WestYorkshire, #Bedfordshire, #Surrey, #Sussex, #ThamesValley and #Hampshire.
"The technology identifies people by taking measurements of facial features including the distance between the eyes and the length of the jawline and then comparing the data to to an existing watchlist.
"Each van will be staffed with a trained officer who checks the matches identified by the technology.
"Simultaneously, the government is holding a consultation on what safeguards are needed to "ensure transparency and public confidence", ahead of drawing up a new legal framework.
"Big Brother Watch is bringing a legal challenge against the #MetPolice's use of the technology, alongside #ShaunThompson, who was wrongly identified by an LFR camera.
#Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch, said: 'Police have interpreted the absence of any legislative basis authorising the use of this intrusive technology as carte blanche to continue to roll it out unfettered, despite the fact that a crucial judicial review on the matter is pending.
" ;The #HomeOffice must scrap its plans to roll out further live facial recognition capacity until robust legislative safeguards are established.'
"Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti told the BBC the technology was 'incredibly intrusive' and 'some would say this is yet another move towards a total #surveillance society'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwoArchived version:
https://archive.ph/I2g32#Orwellian #UKPol #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #ThoughtCrime #PalestineAction #Censorship #Authoritarianism
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The Home Office has permitted police to run facial recognition scans against images held in the UK’s passport and immigration databases without notifying Parliament or the public, say privacy campaigners.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk-police-secretly-use-passport-photos-in-facial-recognition
#uk #ukpol #bigbrotherwatch #passport #technews #facialrecognition #privacy
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🚨 #IcelandFoods, STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras.
I will no longer shop at Iceland if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech #icelandrichard.
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🚨 #IcelandFoods, STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras.
I will no longer shop at Iceland if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech #icelandrichard.
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🚨 #IcelandFoods, STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras.
I will no longer shop at Iceland if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech #icelandrichard.
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🚨 #IcelandFoods, STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras.
I will no longer shop at Iceland if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech #icelandrichard.
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Inside the secret surveillance operation on WikiLeaks | Interview with editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson by Rebecca Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RP_p89rI6E
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“Zero arrests! Proves it’s working, doesn’t it?” | Big Brother Watch
Public facial recognition is one of those things where they are going to demand we nerd harder until some value proposition is established. Quote:
162680 faces scanned. 0 arrests. THIS is the reality of South Wales Police’s ‘live facial recognition zone’ spanning a whole city-centre.
https://twitter.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1902407452856877079
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‘Big Brother’ concerns as South Wales Police to snoop on whole of Cardiff city with ‘semi-permanent’ AI cameras
South Wales Police will use ‘semi-permanent’ AI facial recognition cameras – as opposed to the mobile facial recognition vans used previously – across Cardiff during this year’s Six Nations rugby competition, the first time such ‘city-wide’ coverage has been used and a major step up in the state’s intrusion on the privacy of British people.
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“[Tony Blair] believes the public will gladly sacrifice privacy for efficiency” | …whose, precisely?
Silkie Carlo: “This whole interview reads like an insane, anti-human sales pitch from a washed up warlord-turned-AI salesman who randomly generates buzzwords to shill for whichever monster pays him the most on the day…”
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UK set to introduce digital driving licences
by Maia Davies, January 18, 2025
"'Technology now makes it possible for digital identities to be more secure than physical ones, but we remain clear that they will not be made mandatory.'
"The virtual licences could be used at supermarket self checkouts, The Times said, allowing customers to verify their own age without waiting for a member of staff.
"The new digital licences will be introduced later this year, the newspaper reported.
"A possible feature could allow users to hide their address in certain situations, such as in bars or shops.
"There were more than 50 million full or provisional driving licence holders in the UK in 2023, according to government data.
"The digital licences are likely to be launched as part of a 'wallet' within a new government app called Gov.uk.
"The wallet is understood to be secured in a similar way to many banking apps, and would only allow the genuine owner of a licence to access it.
"It will use features found on many smartphones, such as biometrics and multifactor authentication, like security codes.
"The government is said to be considering integrating other services into the app, such as tax payments and benefits claims.
"Other forms of identification, such as national insurance numbers, could also be added - but it is not thought physical identification will be replaced entirely.
"The new technology appears to stop short of being a broad digital ID card – as previously called for by Sir Tony Blair and Lord William Hague.
"At the time, the head of privacy campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said such a move "would be one of the biggest assaults on privacy ever seen in the UK".
"In 2016, the then-boss of the UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) said digital licences were being developed.
"Virtual licences are already in use in Australia, Denmark, Iceland and Norway, as well as some US states.
"In the European Union, every member state is required to introduce at least one form of digital ID by 2026."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkjjkjy4p8o
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#FacialRecognition: App lets police identify suspects in street
There are concerns #HumanRights will be breached as police forces in #Wales become the first to launch a facial recognition app in the #UK.
It will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity.
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Jake Hurfurt, of #CivilLiberties & #privacy group #BigBrotherWatch , said the app "creates a dangerous imbalance between the public's #rights with the police's powers".
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DWP algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error | Housing benefit | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/23/dwp-algorithm-wrongly-flags-200000-people-possible-fraud-error#DWP
#Algorithms
#Fraud
#WronglyAccused
#HousingBenefit
#BigBrotherWatch
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Scrap plans to scan accounts of benefit claimants or risk new scandal, MPs told | Benefits | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/04/ministers-urged-to-scrap-plans-for-surveillance-of-benefit-claimants-bank-accounts#Benefits
#BankAccountChecks
#BankAccounts
#Scandal
#MPs
#DWP
#AutomatedChecks
#Automation
#DisabilityRightsUK
#BigBrotherWatch
#DisabilityRights
#Carers
#CarersRights
#Disabled
#Pensioners
#CriminalByDefault
#DataProtectionAndDigitalInformationBill
#ChildPovertyAction
#Mind
#AgeUK
#ErrorsInBenefitsTopUps
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Home Office ‘agreed to lobby for facial recognition use to cut shop crime’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-home-office-lobbying-crime-b2384310.html#FacialRecognition
#HomeOffice
#Shops
#Facewatch
#Police
#BigBrotherWatch
#ICO
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Hi all, thought I should add my #introduction! I'm enjoying it here so far. Like many others have said, it's reminiscent of those halcyon days of early #deadbirdsite.
Anyway, brief summary time… I started off studying physics and assumed I'd end up in academia, or would at least become "Dr Watson", but it wasn't to be. My attempt at a PhD in nanoscale physics didn't go too well for various reasons, and I fell into a career editing and writing books about programming, mostly concerning C#. My timing was terrible as everybody started using #stackoverflow instead of reading books, so I sold my soul to the man and now work as a contractor in the London financial sector.
So, that's me. Looking forward to meeting some likeminded people here. Please go easy on me, I was widowed at the start of 2021 (#fuckcancer) and am still rebuilding myself.
Have some hashtags:
#computing
#programming
#dotnet
#react
#ethicaldata
#bigbrotherwatch
#sciencecommunication
#physics
#atheist
#lego
#sff
#bookchat
#finewines
#hiking
#boardgames
#cooking
#tofueatingwokerati
#sexpositive
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UK tax office ordered to delete millions of unlawful biometric voiceprints - The UK’s data protection watchdog has issued the government department responsible for collecting ta... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/NYvgZU4HtPw/ #generaldataprotectionregulation #informationcommissionersoffice #artificialintelligence #identitymanagement #bigbrotherwatch #datacontroller #digitalrights #unitedkingdom #humanrights #government #biometrics #voiceprint #privacy #europe
