They are there now and most nights and watch to the end to see one that flies very close past the window at the same time. Policing/surveillance in the same area and area of sky most nights, I don't think so. #BigBrotherWatch

Respond to Government consultation on a social media ban — Big Brother Watch The Government has launched a consultation on a proposed social media ban for under 16s. We’ve created the guide below to help parents and carers respond. You can access the government’s official cons...

A #SocialMediaBan for under-16s would be a Trojan horse for more #surveillance & #censorship. The #UK government has launched a consultation for us to have our say. #BigBrotherWatch has created a guide to help #parents & #carers respond:

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UK is the Western lab for total surveillance.
Commanders: Mark Rowley (Met Police), Tony Blair.
Suppliers: NEC (NeoFace).
They treat innocent pedestrians as "Suspects in Waiting." Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans are the modern gallows of the digital age. #BigBrotherWatch #UKSurveillance

The surveillance net in the UK & EU is an electronic cage.
Suppliers: NEC, IDEMIA, Thales.
Puppeteers: Tony Blair, Palantir (Peter Thiel).
Under the guise of "Safety," they treat the innocent as suspects. Your face is no longer yours; it's a data point in their server. #BigBrotherWatch #Privacy

#UKgov is rolling out 5x more #FacialRecognition across the country. #BigBrotherWatch reports how our rights & safety are being taken away without anyone's consent. #UKfascism

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#press #IndependentMedia #news

Palantir uses medical records to target people for ICE in the US – will the UK be next? | Good Law Project Deadly ICE raids in the US rely on Palantir tools that mine health records to produce real-time data on people’s location – a chilling prospect for the NHS

#Palantir uses #medical #records to #target #people for #ICE in the #US – will the #UK be next? #TRUMP #NHS #Thiel #Institutions #Government #elites #GoodLawProject #BigBrother #BigBrotherWatch #Surveillance #Privacy #YourDATA #DATA #TARGETTING #GROUPS #SS goodlawproject.org/palantir-use...

EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Repeal Online Safety Act Ahead of today's Parliamentary petition debate on the Online Safety Act, EFF joined Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship in sending a briefing to UK politicians urging them to...

#EFF, #OpenRightsGroup, #BigBrotherWatch, and #IndexonCensorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct

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NO to Digital ID #BigBrotherWatch youtu.be/WizqWi8_49g

2 million !

Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

#no2id #digitalId #idCard #idCards #ukpol #labour #privacy #bigBrotherWatch #openRightsGroup

1.2 million and counting have said
"Do not introduce Digital ID cards"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Have you ?

#uk #ukpol #labour #idCard #idCards #no2id #bigBrotherWatch #openRightsGroup

Keir Starmer is set to announce mandatory Digital ID for all British citizens tomorrow.

This poses enormous risks: data hacking, mass surveillance, and government overreach.

#ASignalThroughTime #BigBrotherWatch #DigitalID #MassSurveillance #BigBrother #AIControl #DataPrivacy #JamesSCoates

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 e…

Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected | Big Brother Watch
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114948
#BigBrotherWatch #DigitalId #IdCards #censorship #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 […]

#NETPOL: Facial recognition at protests: a guide for protesters and legal observers
This is a guest post by #BigBrotherWatch.
#press #news #media #BreakingNews

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UK Police’s Passport Photo Searches Spark Privacy Row Amid Facial Recognition Surge   .Police in the UK have carried out hundreds of facial recognition searches using the national passport photo database — a move campaigners call a “historic breach of the right to privacy,” The Telegraph has reported. Civil liberties groups say the number of police requests to tap into passport and immigration photo records for suspect identification has soared in recent years. Traditionally, searches for facial matches were limited to police mugshot databases. Now, dozens of forces are turning to the Home Office’s store of more than 50 million passport images to match suspects from CCTV or doorbell footage. Government ministers argue the system helps speed up criminal investigations. Critics, however, say it is edging Britain closer to an “Orwellian” surveillance state. A major concern is that passport holders are never informed if their photo has been used in a police search. The UK’s former biometrics watchdog has warned that the practice risks being disproportionate and eroding public trust. According to figures obtained via freedom of information requests by Big Brother Watch, passport photo searches rose from just two in 2020 to 417 in 2023. In the first ten months of 2024 alone, police had already conducted 377 such searches. Immigration photo database searches — containing images gathered by Border Force — also increased sharply, reaching 102 last year, seven times higher than in 2020. The databases contain images of people who have never been convicted of a crime, yet campaigners say the searches take place with minimal legal oversight. While officials claim the technology is reserved for serious offences, evidence suggests it is being used for a wide range of investigations. Currently, there is no national guidance from the Home Office or the College of Policing on the use of facial recognition in law enforcement. Big Brother Watch has issued a legal warning to the Government, threatening court action over what it calls an “unlawful breach of privacy.” Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said: “The Government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database without the public’s knowledge or consent and with absolutely no democratic or legal mandate. This has led to repeated, unjustified and ongoing intrusions on the entire population’s privacy.” Sir Keir Starmer has voiced support for expanding police use of facial recognition — including live street surveillance, retrospective image searches, and a new app for on-the-spot suspect identification. Sir David Davis, Conservative MP, accused the Government of creating a “biometric digital identity system by the backdoor” without Parliament’s consent. The position of Biometrics Commissioner, responsible for oversight of such technology, was vacant for nearly a year until July. Government officials maintain that facial recognition is already bound by existing laws, and stress its role in catching dangerous criminals. They say a detailed plan for its future use — including the legal framework and safeguards — will be published in the coming months.

UK Police’s Passport Photo Searches Spark Privacy Row Amid Facial Recognition Surge #BigBrotherWatch #Biometricdata #DataBreach

UK passport database images used in facial recognition scans updated: Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’

UK secretly allows #facialrecognition scans of passport, immigration databases
www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/u...

Campaigners brand #HomeOffice lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’
#DataProtection #DataPrivacy #BigBrotherWatch #Surveillance #TechNews #Technology #Tech

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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 […]

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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 […]

"Asda secretly scanning customers' faces - Don’t shop there until you watch this..."

#Asda #FacialRecognition #BigBrotherWatch

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🚨 Will you STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras #asda?

I will no longer shop at #Asda supermarkets if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech.

#StopAsdaSpying | #BigBrotherWatch

“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 reali…

“Zero arrests! Proves it’s working, doesn’t it?” | Big Brother Watch
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112880
#BigBrotherWatch #FacialRecognition #surveillance #wales

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Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Government - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error. It will force banks to fla...

#Petition:
Stop the #UKGovernment from #spying on all of our #bankaccounts
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Big Brother Watch condemns UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff — Big Brother Watch Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy

#Cardiff making the news but for the wrong reasons... Facial recognition deployed during 6 nations city wide, condemned by #BigBrotherWatch bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-broth...

“[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 pa…

“[Tony Blair] believes the public will gladly sacrifice privacy for efficiency” | …whose, precisely?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111082
#BigBrotherWatch #DigitalId #TonyBlair