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⚽Stop treating football fans like criminals @metpoliceuk Orwellian live facial recognition will scan thousands of innocent fans at the Chelsea vs Tottenham match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Mass surveillance has no place in British sport. ⤵️ independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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🧵Five examples of Reddit threads censored by the #OnlineSafetyAct These examples of age-gating are as troubling as they are absurd...
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🎥Censored: Behind-the-scenes footage of the film Terminator Genisys
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The Online Safety Act threatens everyone's rights and liberties. It forces ordinary Britons to surrender their ID or submit to a face scan to access trivial, or sometimes life-saving, information. Read our full report for more information about online censorship in Britain.⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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⚠️Sainsbury's is rolling out live facial recognition in 200 stores, putting all of us at risk of false accusations. If you've been wrongly flagged as a criminal by this tech, we need to hear from you. Share your story at info@bigbrotherwatch.org.uk to #StopSainsburysSpying.
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👁️ Sainsbury’s paused using live facial recognition in its East Dulwich store after wrongly flagging an innocent man as a criminal, but... It has now resumed using this Orwellian tech as if nothing had happened. This mass surveillance tech is “indiscriminate by design, meaning every customer is treated with suspicion” – Jasleen Chaggar ⤵️ techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privac…
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👁️@sainsburys use of live facial recognition is Orwellian and a threat to everyone's privacy. This authoritarian surveillance has no place on the streets of Britain. Use our speedy tool to tell Sainsbury's to stop spying on all of us ⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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The Online Safety Act has made hosting community forums so laborious that they're closing shop. Hundreds of forums have shuttered due to piling paperwork and liability risks. Ordinary speech from ordinary people, gone. Read our report ⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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🎲Speech policing in the UK has become a game of chance. Cumbria Police arrests people for “speech offences” at 14 times the rate of neighbouring Northumbria. In our report, we expose the postcode lottery of policing in Britain. Read⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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We're asking @sainsburys CEO to listen to facial recognition victims in Parliament. Innocent shoppers are being falsely accused of being criminals in stores using Orwellian AI cameras. Take action today | #StopSainsburysSpying ⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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👁️Police are using Orwellian live facial recognition at #Paddington train station today. @BTP has made ZERO arrests so far using this mass surveillance tech. Yet, they've expanded the trial to London tube stations. #StopFacialRecognition⤵️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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🤐 Instagram CENSORED a company selling pillows for using the word ‘pregnancy’ The social media platform removed adverts and forced the company to scrub the word ‘pregnancy’ from their website. Britain’s censorship crisis is getting out of control. Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, content ranging from forums for single dads, photos of famous paintings and now posts about women's health are being censored or placed behind ID demands. The law has gone far beyond keeping us safe from abuse or threats of violence. Now, it even silences important health information. A majority of MPs believe the Online Safety Act should be repealed or reformed, our poll revealed. We need a free speech reset NOW | Read ⤵️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6…
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Free speech makes Britain great. We installed bold billboards to promote everyone's right to free speech - because losing the right to express ourselves freely affects us all. Join the fight back⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/
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🚨We've just invited @sainsburys CEO to listen to facial recognition victims in Parliament Innocent shoppers are being WRONGLY accused of being criminals by shops using these AI cameras Help us pile on the pressure | #StopSainsburysSpying⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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🔴 NEWS: Met Police officers unlawfully shared the personal information of 179 people, including three children, on an unauthorised retail crime platform. 🔸 Names and home addresses were uploaded to a platform called Auror. 🔸The platform was never risk assessed, reviewed or approved by the Met. The UK's data watchdog @ICOnews has launched an action against the Met's severe lack of accountability. Officers have repeatedly used third-party platforms unchecked - and the Met has nothing in place to stop them from continuing to do so.
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