USA: "Rogue police officers turned nationwide Flock camera network into tool for stalking"

"Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime, but at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems"

We're told we shouldn't fear surveillance tech if we've "nothing to hide" - but what about those in power with something to abuse?

Sainsbury's has suspended its live facial recognition technology at one of its London branches after a customer "wrongly challenged and thrown out of store"

"What upset me was thinking this is what the future could be – people just listen to what the machine tells them to do without thinking about the consequences," said victim Matt Arnold

"The issue with calling a majority of the British public people 'far right', is it loses any sense of meaning" (Alan Miller)

Instead of resorting to name-calling, we should discuss ideas and address concerns, from all viewpoints

That’s how society progresses

Stronger #together

If you’re interested in censorship-resistant social media, take a look at Nostr.

It’s an open protocol rather than a company-owned platform. Your identity belongs to you, posts are cryptographically signed, and they can be published through multiple independent servers (“relays”). If one relay bans you or disappears, you can switch to others without losing your identity or audience.

It’s a simple idea with potentially huge implications for online freedom: https://nostr.how/en/get-started

FREEDOM: "Our children and grandchildren will inherit either a world of control or a world of freedom"

"If we don’t stand now, they’ll carry the burden of tyranny"

"That’s what’s at stake, and it’s worth fighting for"

Nathan Anderson at our 25 April Scrap Digital ID event in Belfast

Digital ID "wasn't in our manifesto"

No, it wasn't was it, Lucy Powell?!

Nor was allowing One Login, the GOV UK App and Government Wallet to become Digital ID in all but name through expansion, function creep or the erosion of offline alternatives
We must keep pushing #together

MEMBERSHIP: We’ve won a battle, but the war isn’t over

We campaigned hard for over a year against the official digital ID scheme

But with related issues like One Login to ID checks for the internet, we need you🫵

Join us from just £3 per month: http://togetherdeclaration.org/join

We're stronger #together

Action-takers influence things

Together supporters campaigned up and down the UK against the national Digital ID proposal

Cancelling the official scheme is only the first step

Now, we must ensure connected systems such as One Login, the GOV UK App and GOV UK Wallet cannot evolve into Digital ID in all but name through expansion, function creep or the erosion of offline alternatives

#PledgeTogether #ScrapDigitalID

COVID JAB: "We're usually very careful (with pregnant women, but) instead of using that normal common-sense approach, what they were saying at the time was 'forget about all the nuance, you must take it'"

- US NIH Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya

Andy Burnham announced the official Digital ID scheme would be scrapped after millions saw the danger in "Digital Papers Please"

At the same time, related platform One Login has quietly expanded across 200+ government services - with more planned

We need an immediate freeze on One Login pending independent National Audit Office review - no further rollout or expansion without safeguards and Parliamentary oversight

#OneLogin

"Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lawyers have created a fund for people to donate for his legal expenses."

"In his last year of service, Fauci made $480,654... The net worth of Fauci and his wife, chief bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health until 2024, reached $15m in 2023, according to a financial disclosure."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/faucis-lawyers-set-legal-defense-fund

SURVEILLANCE: "People find it deeply disturbing, the direction of travel"

"People feel a quite reasonable sense of paranoia about the amount of surveillance they’re under"

Jeremy Corbyn from December's petition debate

A digital driving licence on your phone is not the same thing as a compulsory national Digital ID

However, the Government is connecting digital credentials, the GOV UK Wallet and the One Login app - and something much bigger is starting to take shape

The question isn't just what each part does TODAY - it's what the combined system could become TOMORROW

We must not let these systems evolve into Digital ID in all but name, through expansion, function creep or the loss of offline alternatives

The surest way to stop One Login becoming the only way to interact with the state is to refuse to let it become the default

Wherever a genuine alternative exists, use it - and demand that government protects that choice in law