👁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.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/technology/britain-facial-recognition-digital-controls.html

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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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"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.

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https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Digital-ID-risks-turning-UK-into-Checkpoint-Britain

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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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🆔"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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⚠️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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❌"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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🚨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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▶️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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▶️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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📩 Send this video to a friend who says “If I’ve got nothing to hide so nothing to fear”

WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/6jUq-llJiVg

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👁“This is a massive expansion of the surveillance state”

Our director Silkie speaks on BBC Politics Live after the government announced they want to “ramp up” facial recognition

▶WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/Ji8Q5OBsFdg

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⚠️The Government is proposing a FIVEFOLD increase in Orwellian facial recognition snooping

▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/lPsb7YLE3zk?si=gKtU3vTO4EB7USED

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🚨NEWS : Orwellian live facial recognition cameras have been installed at London Bridge station.

▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/3ESAZKTk8_s

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👁 Sainsbury's are quietly installing Orwellian live facial recognition cameras in several London shops...

▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZnLZwS_PhOg?si=SNfnZMHLwDXMw_2I

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If free speech only protects views we like, is it truly free?

▶️WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/UT2USKsc4dI

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⚠️Digital ID + facial recognition

WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/45a1ECgzeUc

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👁️Essex Police has halted live facial recognition deployments over racial bias findings

But this is part of a much bigger story...

WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/HG1O3ThRLAE

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⚠️ A social media ban for under-16s = digital ID checks for all

WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/WhBjhUMaLUk?si=2DVU-RP1dQ6542T9

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"I'm stuck with a CHILD'S phone"

UK iPhone users must now prove their age under a new update, or have their internet access RESTRICTED.

WATCH: https://youtube.com/shorts/VvGrS1AV1ro?si=yBrmr6sc-L4zCcxQ

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