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EXCLUSIVE
The Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.
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🚨 noyb has filed complaints against #TikTok and #Grindr. As it turns out, TikTok tracks you across other apps. For example, TikTok tracked a person’s Grindr usage - which allows it to draw conclusions about his sexual orientation and sex life
👉 noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfully…
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A petition calling for the repeal of the UK's Online Safety Act has reached more than 550,000 signatures and will be debated this afternoon in the UK Parliament. Ahead of the debate, EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship wrote to politicians urging them to listen to their constituents and repeal the legislation. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/ef…
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A petition to repeal the UK’s Online Safety Act will be debated in Parliament at 4:30pm today. As MPs gather to debate it, we urge the government to rethink breaking end-to-end encryption which endangers journalism at home and around the world:
indexoncensorship.org/2025/1…
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Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/wh…
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A few comments on the Open Rights submission on the Online Safety Act: openrightsgroup.org/app/uplo… .../1
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DEFENDING TRIAL BY JURY
A brilliant and informative piece from @SaraChitseko @OpenRightsGroup
“Jury trials are not just a procedural detail, they are the cornerstone of democracy. They enable the public to participate directly in legal proceedings and provide a crucial check on state power.”
openrightsgroup.org/blog/def…
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👁️Live facial recognition is dangerously intrusive, discriminatory and disproportionate,
80% of the innocent people wrongly flagged by facial recognition in London this year were black.
“Plans to massively expand the use of this discriminatory mass surveillance technology will perpetuate existing biases on a mass scale and should be scrapped.” - @JHurfurt
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ALT The Times - Facial recognition will 'create' no-go areas for minorities
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🆕 Today we joined the launch of “Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for Migrants” - new research by Derya Ozkul and Marie Godin, from @MigrantVoiceUK and @OpenRightsGroup.
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💪Opposition to digital ID is MOUNTING
We've brought together 13 rights groups urging MPs to oppose measures that risk turning the UK into a Checkpoint Britain at Monday’s petition debate.
Before then we urgently need everyone to use our speedy tool to call on your MP to attend the debate⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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🚨 An investigation by The Times and @LInvestigates has revealed that children have featured at least 1,600 times on live facial recognition systems used by the six forces that routinely use the technology.
Read the full story here 👇
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/a…
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What’s happened to the ICO’s enforcement regime?
We’ve signed @OpenRightsGroup’s letter calling for an inquiry after the data regulator declined to formally investigate the MoD over the Afghan data breach.
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From Estonia to Venezuela..."lots of countries who've introduced digital ID have had various issues and problems"
@OpenRightsGroup's James Baker explains
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Our next focusing on the offender management app and paths to justice ad well as our film campaign challenging and shining a light on think family education is on the 6th of November at the #ECC. Here’s @OpenRightsGroup on #automatedracism
Learn more in our blog on why prevention not prediction should be the priority if safety is the goal openrightsgroup.org/blog/why….
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Alongside 60 politicians, 4 advocacy groups have also signed our open letter.
James Baker of @OpenRightsGroup said Google's violation of voluntary commitments underscores the need for the government to deliver on its promised AI legislation.
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🚨BREAKING: The Met Police's use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL - the UK's human rights regulator believes
Today we can reveal to you that the EHRC will intervene in a landmark legal challenge to #StopFacialRecognition brought by our director @silkiecarlo & Shaun Thompson, a Londoner who was falsely flagged as a criminal by this tech.
"The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s intervention in this landmark legal challenge is hugely welcome, necessary, and incredibly timely.
The rapid proliferation of invasive live facial recognition technology without any legislation governing its use is one of the most pressing human rights concerns in the UK today...
Given this crucial ongoing legal action, the Home Office and police’s investment in this dangerous and discriminatory technology is wholly inappropriate and must stop.”
– Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director [@rebecca_vincent]
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The UK's Online Safety Act's push to protect kids online through content blocking and age checks sounds good—until you look deeper. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/bl…
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The Met police’s claims that their use of live facial recognition is bias-free are not substantiated by the report they cite to support their case, a leading expert who led the only independent academic review of police use of facial recognition has said theguardian.com/technology/2…
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🚨WARNING
Facial recognition tech is being used at Notting Hill Carnival this weekend. If you are attending, know your rights - libertyhumanrights.org.uk/ad…
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
We've led a joint letter with the UK’s leading rights & racial justice orgs to the @metpoliceuk urging them to scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition at #NottingHillCarnival
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
ALT Headline graphic from Guardian article reading: facial recognition cameras too racially biasd to use at Notting Hill carnival, say campaigners.