Topic: Wales
Wales is increasingly becoming a focal point for issues surrounding surveillance and censorship, with initiatives like citywide AI-powered facial recognition and the introduction of vaccine passports raising significant privacy concerns. The handling of dissenting opinions, such as the suspension of a council member for alleged misinformation, highlights the risks to free expression in the region. These developments highlight the urgent need to protect individual liberties against state overreach and corporate censorship.
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Wales Becomes First UK Testbed for Citywide AI-Powered Facial Recognition Surveillance
Cardiff’s new AI-powered facial recognition network is a step toward permanent mass surveillance.
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Wales is threatened with vaccine passports
If cases don’t go down.
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Welsh party Plaid Cymru suspended council member after his posts were flagged as “misinformation” by Facebook
Williams shared links to content that said the death rate is “the same as it would be any other year.”
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Wales leaks data of COVID-19 test patients online
The database was online and open to the public for an entire day.
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UK Government Twitter account retweets pornographic video
They claim it was a “cyber-attack”.
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Very few “revenge porn” cases are being prosecuted, new UK data shows
Revenge porn cases are on the rise, yet most are not prosecuted.