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UK: Police Charge Kellie-Jay Keen Over X Posts
A speech offense with no clear boundary, now aimed at religious criticism.
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.
UK: Police Watchdog Questions Linehan Heathrow Arrest Over Tweet
The watchdog says the apology still leaves the central question unanswered: why was he arrested at all.
Arday's Law: UK Campaign to Limit Articles About One Person
A UK petition to cap news articles per person should revive prior restraint fears among free press advocates.
Khan Approves Oxford Street Live Facial Recognition
Permanent cameras are coming to Britain's busiest shopping street, and the only real disagreement is about which crowds should be scanned first.
London Police Crack the Case of the Three Polite Emails
Mark Rowley says the Met dropped the ball on its 4-month harassment case against reporter Jack Grove.
UK Police Warn Man Over Pub Tweets
Two officers, one pint, and a politician’s hurt feelings walk into a Chiswick pub. Nobody breaks a law, and somehow that is the scary part.
“Dystopian” Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests
The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for a burglary a hundred miles from home.
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Britain’s civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.
“Nothing to Fear” Is Back: The UK High Court Clears Way for Police Facial Recognition
The policy that turns every Oxford Street shopper into a biometric template just got the judicial nod its architects were waiting for.
Britain’s Great Speech Police Rebrand
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
Angela Lipps Spent 108 Days in Jail Because a Facial Recognition Algorithm Was Wrong
The software was wrong, but Angela Lipps still had to spend 108 days in a Tennessee jail proving it.
