▶️WATCH: Your passport photo = police mugshot
https://youtube.com/shorts/CBmPynU9Tj0
The Government has secretly been allowing police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with Orwellian facial recognition technology.
That is why we are set to pursue legal action against the Home Office and Metropolitan Police alongside Privacy International.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/CBmPynU9Tj0
The Government has secretly been allowing police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with Orwellian facial recognition technology.
That is why we are set to pursue legal action against the Home Office and Metropolitan Police alongside Privacy International.
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🚨Your passport photo = police mugshot
The Government has secretly been allowing police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with Orwellian facial recognit...
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⚠️The Government are rolling out funding for a new AI-powered policing tool to PREDICT crime before it has even happened.
These plans for Minority Report-style policing are deeply chilling and dystopian.
Read⤵️
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/uk_to_use_ai_to/
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These plans for Minority Report-style policing are deeply chilling and dystopian.
Read⤵️
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/uk_to_use_ai_to/
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The Register
Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork
: Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners
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▶️WATCH: "This doesn’t seem LEGAL"
https://youtube.com/shorts/MmuMc4Cfgjw?si=0EU4f3r29w1xhEXT
We asked the public what they thought about their passport photos being subverted into a facial recognition database & used for surveillance.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/MmuMc4Cfgjw?si=0EU4f3r29w1xhEXT
We asked the public what they thought about their passport photos being subverted into a facial recognition database & used for surveillance.
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"This doesn't seem LEGAL"
We asked the public what they thought about their passport photos being subverted into a facial recognition database & used for surveillance.Join our fight t...
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🚨BREAKING: The Met Police's use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL - the UK's human rights regulator believes
Today we can reveal to you that the EHRC will intervene in a landmark legal challenge to stop facial recognition brought by our director Silkie Carlo & Shaun Thompson, a Londoner who was falsely flagged as a criminal by this tech.
"The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s intervention in this landmark legal challenge is hugely welcome, necessary, and incredibly timely.
The rapid proliferation of invasive live facial recognition technology without any legislation governing its use is one of the most pressing human rights concerns in the UK today...
Given this crucial ongoing legal action, the Home Office and police’s investment in this dangerous and discriminatory technology is wholly inappropriate and must stop.”
– Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director
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Today we can reveal to you that the EHRC will intervene in a landmark legal challenge to stop facial recognition brought by our director Silkie Carlo & Shaun Thompson, a Londoner who was falsely flagged as a criminal by this tech.
"The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s intervention in this landmark legal challenge is hugely welcome, necessary, and incredibly timely.
The rapid proliferation of invasive live facial recognition technology without any legislation governing its use is one of the most pressing human rights concerns in the UK today...
Given this crucial ongoing legal action, the Home Office and police’s investment in this dangerous and discriminatory technology is wholly inappropriate and must stop.”
– Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director
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🚨 Stop this alarming step towards a Scottish surveillance state
Alongside 14 rights & equalities groups, we condemn Police Scotland's decision to move ahead with plans to introduce live facial recognition technology
“Live facial recognition technology has no place in a democratic society and poses a grave risk to the rights and freedoms of the Scottish public” - Madeleine Stone
Read⤵️
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25418037.police-scotland-urged-immediately-abandon-live-facial-recognition/
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Alongside 14 rights & equalities groups, we condemn Police Scotland's decision to move ahead with plans to introduce live facial recognition technology
“Live facial recognition technology has no place in a democratic society and poses a grave risk to the rights and freedoms of the Scottish public” - Madeleine Stone
Read⤵️
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25418037.police-scotland-urged-immediately-abandon-live-facial-recognition/
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🔔HUGE NEWS: The Met’s use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL & incompatible with fundamental rights - the UK’s human rights regulator believes
▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/IKTv-x5Y34M
We’re backing a legal challenge to stop facial recognition & the regulator is now weighing in.
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▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/IKTv-x5Y34M
We’re backing a legal challenge to stop facial recognition & the regulator is now weighing in.
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🔔HUGE NEWS about live facial recognition
The Met’s use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL & incompatible with fundamental rights - the UK’s human rights regulator believesWe’re backing a legal c...
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🚨Breaking: Sainsbury's has just announced that it will be trialling Orwellian live facial recognition in select UK shops:
📍Sydenham, SE London
📍Oldfield Park, Bath
With plans for nationwide rollout
For one of the UK's largest supermarkets to trial this intrusive tech is deeply disproportionate and chilling.
"Facial recognition surveillance turns shoppers into suspects, with devastating consequences for people’s lives when it inevitably makes mistakes...
Sainsbury's should abandon this trial and the government must urgently step in to prevent the unchecked spread of this invasive technology."
- Madeleine Stone
Read our response in The Guardian⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/02/sainsburys-tests-facial-recognition-technology-in-effort-to-tackle-shoplifting
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📍Sydenham, SE London
📍Oldfield Park, Bath
With plans for nationwide rollout
For one of the UK's largest supermarkets to trial this intrusive tech is deeply disproportionate and chilling.
"Facial recognition surveillance turns shoppers into suspects, with devastating consequences for people’s lives when it inevitably makes mistakes...
Sainsbury's should abandon this trial and the government must urgently step in to prevent the unchecked spread of this invasive technology."
- Madeleine Stone
Read our response in The Guardian⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/02/sainsburys-tests-facial-recognition-technology-in-effort-to-tackle-shoplifting
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▶️WATCH: Stop facial recognition
https://youtube.com/shorts/GiaCU3Rg30o
China has brought in new laws to limit facial recognition...
The UK? No law & it’s spreading across shops, bars & high streets.
At a time when many liberal democracies – and even authoritarian countries - are limiting the use of this surveillance technology, our politicians are falling behind and failing us.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/GiaCU3Rg30o
China has brought in new laws to limit facial recognition...
The UK? No law & it’s spreading across shops, bars & high streets.
At a time when many liberal democracies – and even authoritarian countries - are limiting the use of this surveillance technology, our politicians are falling behind and failing us.
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❌Stop facial recognition
China has brought in new laws to limit facial recognition...The UK? No law & it’s spreading across shops, bars & high streets.At a time when many liberal dem...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
We've just published...'Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected'
No one voted for digital ID, and the Government has no clear mandate to implement one.
Yet we're now on the brink of having every adult in the UK forced onto one, inserting the state into our everyday lives.
Today we can reveal the major risks of barcoding Britain.
Download & read our report⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#REPORT
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We've just published...'Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected'
No one voted for digital ID, and the Government has no clear mandate to implement one.
Yet we're now on the brink of having every adult in the UK forced onto one, inserting the state into our everyday lives.
Today we can reveal the major risks of barcoding Britain.
Download & read our report⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#REPORT
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WATCH: Stop Starmer's plans for a checkpoint Britain
https://youtube.com/shorts/JkA29JJCHxo
🪪A digital ID would give the state ENORMOUS control & usher in a new era of mass surveillance.
It will not solve illegal immigration or other complex societal issues. Instead, it would put the burden on law-abiding citizens.
Say no to digital ID!
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https://youtube.com/shorts/JkA29JJCHxo
🪪A digital ID would give the state ENORMOUS control & usher in a new era of mass surveillance.
It will not solve illegal immigration or other complex societal issues. Instead, it would put the burden on law-abiding citizens.
Say no to digital ID!
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👁Live facial recognition is expanding at an unprecedented scale in the UK
No other democracy in the world is using live facial recognition cameras in this expansive and draconian way. "There has to be limits", Jake Hurfurt told The New York Times.
Read ⤵️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/technology/britain-facial-recognition-digital-controls.html
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No other democracy in the world is using live facial recognition cameras in this expansive and draconian way. "There has to be limits", Jake Hurfurt told The New York Times.
Read ⤵️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/technology/britain-facial-recognition-digital-controls.html
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NY Times
Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?
British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.
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🚨 NEWS 🚨
Hammersmith & Fulham Council IS GOING FULL ORWELL proposing:
🔸 Permanent fixed cameras with live facial recognition
🔸 A fleet of drones to monitor people
🔸 Cameras with retrospective facial recognition to trace people’s movements across the borough
🔸 500 AI cameras with object recognition, automatic vehicle tracking with GPS tagging, crowd build-up alerts, instant search through thousands of hours of footage
🔸 Attaching speakers to cameras so officers can directly address people in public
All for a cool £3 million of taxpayers’ money.
Read: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl5030lwkwo
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Hammersmith & Fulham Council IS GOING FULL ORWELL proposing:
🔸 Permanent fixed cameras with live facial recognition
🔸 A fleet of drones to monitor people
🔸 Cameras with retrospective facial recognition to trace people’s movements across the borough
🔸 500 AI cameras with object recognition, automatic vehicle tracking with GPS tagging, crowd build-up alerts, instant search through thousands of hours of footage
🔸 Attaching speakers to cameras so officers can directly address people in public
All for a cool £3 million of taxpayers’ money.
Read: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl5030lwkwo
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"Digital ID would usher in a new era of mass surveillance and irreversibly damage our civil liberties." - Rebecca Vincent
We must reject plans to turn Britain into a checkpoint society.
Read ⤵️
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Digital-ID-risks-turning-UK-into-Checkpoint-Britain
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We must reject plans to turn Britain into a checkpoint society.
Read ⤵️
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Digital-ID-risks-turning-UK-into-Checkpoint-Britain
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ComputerWeekly.com
Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’
Proposals for mandatory digital ID have gained traction with alarming speed, with Keir Starmer now confirming he is considering implementing a digital ID scheme as a supposed means of combating ill...
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🚨 We've just written to Keir Starmer urging him to ABANDON any plans for a mandatory digital ID
A digital ID would tear up our rights & make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives
We're saying no to digital ID & a checkpoint Britain. Read our joint letter⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-mandatory-digital-id/
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A digital ID would tear up our rights & make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives
We're saying no to digital ID & a checkpoint Britain. Read our joint letter⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-mandatory-digital-id/
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🆔"Sounds Orwellian to me..."
WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/osoy9ybXGY0
The public speak out against Starmer's mandatory digital ID plans
If we do not urgently build the biggest campaign possible, every one of us will be required to have a digital ID card to go about our daily lives.
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WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/osoy9ybXGY0
The public speak out against Starmer's mandatory digital ID plans
If we do not urgently build the biggest campaign possible, every one of us will be required to have a digital ID card to go about our daily lives.
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🆔Digital ID "sounds ORWELLIAN"
"Sounds Orwellian to me..."The public speak out against Starmer's mandatory digital ID plansIf we do not urgently build the biggest campaign possible, every ...
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⚠️Fixed facial recognition cameras in London
WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/5oqefGNo3ys
We are alarmed by the Metropolitan Police Service installing an unprecedented network of fixed live facial recognition cameras across Croydon town centre, which marks a worrying escalation in the use of LFR with no oversight or legislative basis.
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WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/5oqefGNo3ys
We are alarmed by the Metropolitan Police Service installing an unprecedented network of fixed live facial recognition cameras across Croydon town centre, which marks a worrying escalation in the use of LFR with no oversight or legislative basis.
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⚠️Fixed facial recognition cameras in London
We are alarmed by the Metropolitan Police Service installing an unprecedented network of fixed live facial recognition cameras across Croydon town centre, wh...
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❌"We won't be carrying digital IDs
We have never been a population that lives on licence to authorities - the authorities work for us"
Silkie Carlo speaks against digital ID on the Triggernometry podcast.
WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/_UwHtxnRMCw
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We have never been a population that lives on licence to authorities - the authorities work for us"
Silkie Carlo speaks against digital ID on the Triggernometry podcast.
WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/_UwHtxnRMCw
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❌"We won't be carrying digital IDs
We have never been a population that lives on licence to authorities - the authorities work for us". Our director Silkie Carlo speaks against digital ID on t...
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🚨NEW: We've just launched a speedy tool for you to tell your MP to reject digital ID
Politicians will debate a petition rejecting mandatory digital ID signed by almost 3 million people on 8 December 2025.
This is our chance to create the strongest opposition to the Government's Orwellian plans to turn Britain into a checkpoint society.
Take action - email your MP today⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailMP
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Politicians will debate a petition rejecting mandatory digital ID signed by almost 3 million people on 8 December 2025.
This is our chance to create the strongest opposition to the Government's Orwellian plans to turn Britain into a checkpoint society.
Take action - email your MP today⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailMP
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Big Brother Watch
No2DigitalID — Big Brother Watch
A national digital ID system is not inevitable. We can stop Britain sleepwalking into becoming a database state. Support our campaign to create a legal right to use non-digital ID!
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▶️WATCH: Digital ID is a "TERRIBLE idea"
https://youtube.com/shorts/oNXARuTEwa8
David Davis MP joins us in delivering our petition REJECTING digital ID to No 10
Britain has historically rejected various forms of mandatory ID - we must reject this too
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https://youtube.com/shorts/oNXARuTEwa8
David Davis MP joins us in delivering our petition REJECTING digital ID to No 10
Britain has historically rejected various forms of mandatory ID - we must reject this too
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⚠️ Digital ID is a "TERRIBLE idea"
A mandatory digital ID would change "the nature of the relationship between a British citizen & the state"David Davis MP joins us in delivering our petition ...
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▶️WATCH: What is digital ID REALLY about?
https://youtube.com/shorts/8prWMt9ODSI
Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo gives evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on digital ID.
Reject digital ID.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/8prWMt9ODSI
Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo gives evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on digital ID.
Reject digital ID.
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What is digital ID REALLY about?
Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo gives evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on digital ID.This cannot be understated: Introducing a mandatory digita...
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