👤 @RobertJenrick's plans to use AI to police benefit claimants is a recipe for mass false flags and discrimination. DWP’s existing AI black box is already fraught with errors and algorithmic bias, punishing innocent claimants. We are not anti-AI, but we are pro-fairness and pro-dignity. AI should be used to cut bureaucracy and support human decision-making, not as a punitive tool that automates suspicion against those who need help most.

🌹Heading to Labour Party Conference next weekend? Join us for a discussion on surveillance and civil liberties. Our founder, @cgdav135, will be part of a panel hosted by @BigBrotherWatch discussing how this government's approach to facial recognition technology and public order policing threatens free speech and protest rights. Details below ⤵️

🕶️ Big Tech treating our personal data and biometrics as free raw material for AI models is surveillance capitalism in its purest form. By harvesting our photos and pushing facial recognition tech on its smart glasses, @meta proves once again that tech monopolies care more about extracting our data than our right to privacy. Read more from @WIRED ⤵️ wired.com/story/meta-sued-ov…

The public backlash against wearable surveillance tech has reached @TfL. People do not want walking cameras invading their daily commute or violating privacy in public spaces.

Even in the homeland of big tech, California is proving that the real battle is over platform architecture, not digital exclusion. Gavin Newsom's move to ban infinite scroll and and auto play targets Silicon Valley's predatory business model at its source. But we cannot be complacent: clumsily drawn restrictions are a disaster for our privacy and risk becoming bans that isolate young people. True progress means forcing tech monopolies to dismantle their profit-driven addictive features while fiercely protecting user privacy and civil liberties. Read more ⤵️ theguardian.com/media/2026/s…

Our police forces are being left adrift by outdated, draconian speech laws. @BigBrotherWatch's report reveals 62,199 Britons were arrested for communications offences over 5 years - that's 34 arrests every single day. While officers are bogged down investigating absurd social media posts, working-class communities pay the price in lost neighbourhood policing. It is a complete distortion of priorities when officers spend hours processing online noise while violent crime and burglaries blighting our streets goes unaddressed. Labour must deliver a free speech reset: unburden our police and get them back to tackling genuine crime. Read more from @mayathomas98 in @spectator ⤵️ spectator.com/article/the-on…

Today's announcement mandating every phone, tablet and laptop sold in Britain must run default scanning and filtering software is a terrifying escalation. Our warnings about this were previously dismissed as "wild hyperbole", but today the state has proven us right. This legislation will not make children safer - instead, it delegates child protection and policing to unaccountable Silicon Valley giants, while subjecting the entire British public to automated population-wide surveillance. Let's call this what it is: state-mandated spyware in our pockets.

Banning social media won’t protect children - it will isolate them, cutting off vital support networks for vulnerable and marginalised kids. We must reject these lazy performative bans and hold the tech giants directly accountable by forcing them to dismantle their predatory addictive designs. Read more ⤵️ mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…

🚨 @politico reveals Meta is launching a campaign to "shame" competitors like YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat into adopting its exact same age-gating terms. This isn't a victory for online safety. It is the beginning corporate-led push to build a de facto age assurance cartel, opening the floodgates for mass biometric data harvesting. Read more ⤵️ politico.com/news/2026/08/26…

🚨 @Meta has settled with 47 US states over claims it deliberately engineered its platforms to addict and endanger children. The tech giant has been forced to implement major changes to their actual product design, including limiting screen-time features and removing addictive design choices. We have been saying this since day one: the root cause of online harm is not the users, but the toxic, profit-driven architecture of the platforms themselves. We don't need performative unworkable bans or invasive biometric digital IDs. We need to hold tech monopolies accountable and force them to dismantle their addictive algorithms. Read more ⤵️ nytimes.com/2026/08/26/techn…

🇫🇷France's highest court has struck down the under-15s social media ban, ruling that it disproportionately infringes upon freedom of expression and privacy. It is a massive win that exposes the unworkable reality of these policies: to block kids, you have to force every single adult to undergo invasive digital ID checks simply to access social media. But we cannot be complacent. President Macron has already ordered a swift rewrite to fast-track the ban before the next election. The fight for a free and open web goes on.

⚽ Football is a working-class game - not a playground for the surveillance state. The Met Police have accepted over £3 million in Premier League cash to unleash live facial recognition on matchdays. This flawed technology routinely misidentifies innocent people, relies on biased algorithms that disproportionately target minority communities, and forces matchgoing fans to sacrifice their right to privacy just to support their club. It's time to show a red card to the normalisation of digital suspicion. 🟥 Read more at @TheAthleticFC ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/7513376…

People are waking up to the reality that blanket bans are unworkable, threaten to eliminate online anonymity and isolate vulnerable people from the digital world. We don't need performative unenforceable legislation that opens the door to a mass surveillance state - what we need is a government willing to challenge Big Tech's predatory algorithms. Read more from @POLITICOEurope ⤵️ politico.eu/article/social-m…