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Half A Million Daily Shoppers Face Biometric Scanning On London's Oxford Street
Oxford Street is becoming a test case for making mass surveillance feel like urban furniture.
British Transport Police Facial Recognition Trial Scanned 926,912 People With Zero Arrests
Half a million faces scanned, one false alert, and still the experiment got an encore.
UK Expands Live Facial Recognition as First Legal Challenge Targets Met Police Misidentification
Facial recognition quietly scales nationwide as police double down on a tool still lacking clear legal ground.
Innocent People Are Already Getting Caught Up in UK Police’s Dystopian Facial Recognition Scans
A face flagged as dangerous was actually working to keep danger off the streets.
Internet Blackouts Backfire as Protests Escalate in Bangladesh
Despite repeated shutdowns, the government’s control over the protests crumbled, leading to unprecedented economic losses.
Ireland’s Elections Watchdog Says His Department Has Been Given “Safe Channels” to Big Tech Companies
Supposedly to deal with matters after meeting with them to discuss how they’re dealing with “misinformation.”
Barclays Bank Pays Out Settlement for Deplatforming Christian Group
The Christian group was deplatformed after an online campaign.
Google Is Ordered to Censor YouTube Rippers From Search Results in UK
Media companies want to stop people downloading videos.
UK Leadership Candidate Kemi Badenoch Wanted to Stop Police Investigating People Over Tweets
The only online free speech candidate.
UK Gets Massive Free Speech Win as Court of Appeal Rules Police’s Definition of a “Hate Incident” Is Unlawful and Had “Chilling Effect” on Speech
Occasionally the courts get something right.
UK Police Face Pushback Over Secret “Non-Crime Hate Incident” Lists
People are starting to speak out.
