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🚨BREAKING: We’re outside Number 10, handing Keir Starmer your message to reject digital ID.
We refuse to be treated like barcodes, we will not live in a surveillance state, and their spin will not wash with us.
This day belongs to all of us.
It’s for the 175,000+ of you who stood with us and signed our petition and for the millions who added your voices to the Parliament petition calling for this to end.
ALT Left to Right: Sian Berry MP, Matthew Feeney and Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch, and David Davis MP in front of No 10 holding a box with the petition 'Reject Plans for Mandatory Digital ID'
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"Protecting public health".
@PoliceScotland stormed into a family home yesterday - on suspicion they had guests around... In fact their seriously ill daughter had just been discharged from hospital.
This is disgraceful. Serious questions must be answered - now. @NicolaSturgeon
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🚨BREAKING: We've launched a legal challenge to Johnson's Covid ID scheme in England.
Mandatory Covid passes are draconian, discriminatory and pointless, and we are concerned that the new scheme breaches the Human Rights Act and equality law.
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🚨 WE DID IT 🚨
From today the domestic NHS COVID Pass is no longer available for venues or events to use as a condition of entry.
From legal battles, protests, billboards, events & much more we made our voices heard.
🎉Congrats to everyone who made this victory possible
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
In case they weren't getting the message... we've taken it right to parliament
#NoCovidID | #NoVaccinePassports
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
We've launched a legal challenge to mandatory Welsh Covid passes.
The Covid ID scheme was expanded in Wales tonight to include cinemas + theatres.
We strongly believe these authoritarian, invasive + unevidenced internal health passports need to be scrapped, now.
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🚨BREAKING 🚨 We're broadcasting Ministers' lies that there would be #NoVaccinePassports across Westminster, all day!
We just bumped into Health Secretary @SajidJavid on College Green, but for some reason he couldn't bear to watch our video and promptly left...
#NoCovidID
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"It's a bit totalitarian".
A supermarket is forcing those exempt from wearing masks, primarily disabled people, to wear *yellow stickers*. After this man politely refused, shop staff called the police + recorded him.
@Morrisons will you apologise and stop this discrimination?
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You’ve made it illegal to sit on a park bench.
“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man.”
Churchill’s words in his famous Iron Curtain speech 75 years ago resonate as true today as they did in the post-war era. The UK stands by these values.
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⚠️ History warns us against digital ID.
Keir Starmer recently told his Cabinet & the media that he is considering plans for a mandatory digital ID scheme, which could give the state enormous control & treat the population with suspicion.
They must reject these plans.
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🚨Extraordinary + welcome return to rationality by Vaccines Minister today:
"Mandating vaccinations is discriminatory & completely wrong. I, like @SteveBakerHW, urge businesses listening to this today not to even think about this. We've absolutely no plans for vaccine passports"
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🚨BREAKING🚨
YouTube removed our video of civil liberties champion @DavidDavisMP's speech against domestic vaccine passports, claiming that it "contradicts expert consensus".
This ought to be a wakeup call that free speech is under severe threat online.
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/…
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🚨YET AGAIN, a monthly review by the CPS has found that *every single* charge under the Coronavirus Act was unlawful.
This continues the abysmal record of 100% unlawful prosecutions - 246 so far - of innocent, healthy people under this draconian Act.
The Act must be repealed.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Keir Starmer to announce Orwellian mandatory digital ID for all UK adults
"Plans for a mandatory digital ID would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives, turning us into a checkpoint society that is wholly unBritish.
Digital IDs would do absolutely nothing to deter small boats but would make Britain less free, creating a domestic mass surveillance infrastructure that will likely sprawl from citizenship to benefits, tax, health, possibly even internet data and more.
Incredibly sensitive information about each and every one of us would be hoarded by the state and vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Starmer has no mandate to force the population to carry digital IDs and millions of us will simply not do it.
The cost to the public purse will likely run into the billions, much like Blair's failed scheme, but the cost to our freedoms would be even more serious.
He is making an enormous mistake and should drop the plans sooner rather than later."
- Silkie Carlo | @silkiecarlo
ALT Breaking: Keir Starmer to announce Orwellian mandatory digital ID for all UK adults
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Today we can expose... the #MinistryOfTruth
Secretive government units & the British Army have been spying on the public, academics, journalists, human rights campaigners & MPs in the UK...
under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation’.
➡️minitruth.co.uk
ALT minitruth.co.uk
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🚨BREAKING🚨
We’ve launched a cross-party campaign with 70+ MPs opposing divisive and discriminatory Covid passes.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Mandatory Covid passes SCRAPPED in England from next Thursday.
👏 This is a HUGE victory for all those who have supported our campaign and fought against this dangerous authoritarianism.
✔️ Businesses now need to follow suit
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🤯Even Palantir - the surveillance giant mining health and security data worldwide - is saying that the UK’s digital ID plan is a step too far...
We've truly gone through the looking glass.
Keir Starmer must take note of the mounting opposition and scrap plans for an intrusive mandatory digital ID system.
Nobody wants this - not even spy tech companies.
ALT The Times: Software giant Palantir snubs 'undemocratic' digital ID scheme
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🚨🚨🚨 STOP COVID PASSES PROTEST: SATURDAY 11 DEC | starts 12pm @ Parliament Sq 🚨🚨🚨
Rights & equality groups come together to stop Johnson’s Covid passports ✊
The time to fight back is now…
🪧 BE THERE!
📢 Spread the word!
#NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere
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🚨YOUR passport photo has secretly been turned into a facial recognition police mugshot - putting everyone's privacy at risk.
📢 We can announce today that we're set to pursue legal action against the Home Office & Met Police alongside @privacyint.
READ | telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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🚨NEWS: We've launched a crowdfunder to grow the greatest possible fight against Covid passes - including a legal challenge as soon as necessary.
We cannot - will not - let the Government create a two-tier nation of division, discrimination & injustice.
crowdfunder.co.uk/join-the-c…
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🚨BREAKING🚨
PM announces plan for increased use of Orwellian facial recognition
The alarming pledge to roll out facial recognition in response to recent disorder is a pledge to plunder more police resources on mass surveillance that threatens rather than protects democracy.
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👀 When the past comes back to bite you...
Divisive | Discriminatory | Wrong
#NoVaccinePassports | #caughtin4k
🖥️ stopvaccinepassports.co.uk
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A woman was fined for going for a walk on the beach with her young daughter. This is NOT against the law.
1. @MerseyPolice can you confirm you will revoke this fine & apologise?
2. Does anyone know this woman? Please put her in touch with us, we can help her challenge the fine.
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🚨 Revealed
Tony Blair's think tank wants digital IDs to turn neighbours into informants, including for noise complaints...
With each complaint contributing to your 'community impact' score.
The proposal is buried in a report released just two days before Keir Starmer announced plans for a mandatory digital ID.
The Prime Minister is saying publicly that the government is mandating them for every adult for right to work checks... but keeping quiet about how many areas of our public life they could be used for.
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✊NO ID CARDS✊
Today is an important day to say loud + clear: no national ID, no vaccine ID, no voter ID!
69 yrs ago today in 1952, Winston Churchill’s govnt scrapped ID cards. Why? In his words, to “set the people free”.
Here’s a story about Britain’s rejection of ID cards.
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"Covid Status Certification" is now how you spell "vaccine passports" 🙃
A disturbing U-turn in the roadmap.
And it is precisely because of the exclusion, discrimination and privacy concerns that millions of us will never accept them.
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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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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer announces Orwellian mandatory digital ID scheme
If we don't urgently build the biggest campaign possible, every one of us will be required to carry a digital ID to go about our daily lives.
Join the fight back⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/join/…
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🚨Boris Johnson's Covid IDs:
❌ Don't tell you if a person has Covid
❌ Don't tell you if a person is spreading it
❌ Failed in Scotland
❌ Failed in Wales
but...
🚩 Introduce a digital ID
🚩 Distract from No 10's rule-breaking parties...
✅Vote NO to @BorisJohnson's Covid IDs!
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🚨"We will not be going ahead with plans for #VaccinePassports"
WELL DONE to everyone who's fighting Covid passes, and THANK YOU for supporting our tireless campaign.
We're winning. But eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. We won't take our eyes off the ball.
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🧵Last night MPs debated the Government's new digital ID proposal for the first time.
Politicians from ALL major parties raised concerns - even from Labour's own ranks.
👏 Well done to all those who spoke out against turning Britain into a database state.
ALT Splitscreen image of mps debating digital ID
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🚨NEW: We've just launched a petition to REJECT plans for a 'BritCard'
This digital ID would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives
Britons have repeatedly rejected mandatory IDs - we must reject this too⤵️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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⚠️The Government is considering forcing the entire UK population onto a digital ID scheme called ‘BritCard’’
An inquiry is now open & we've created an easy guide for you to say #No2DigitalID
Make your voice heard⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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🔔HUGE NEWS: The Met’s use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL - the UK's human rights regulator believes
We're backing a groundbreaking legal challenge to #StopFacialRecognition & the regulator is now weighing in.
👋See you in Court, @metpoliceuk
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We have offered to provide support to the young woman concerned if required.
We will also pursue answers from @policescotland.
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🚨BREAKING: Legal documents reveal Ministers knew Covid passes “might” have “small, and probably unmeasurable” impact at best on Covid cases.
This draconian, unevidenced & pointless ID scheme must be scrapped across the UK - now!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/join-the…
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⚠️We warned about this
UK citizens are being forced to choose between handing over their most sensitive personal data to online platforms or being blocked from freely accessing the internet, as the Online Safety Act comes into force
These measures will have a catastrophic impact on privacy & freedom online. The Act needs to be urgently re-examined.
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"As a matter of social responsibility"...? 🤔
🚫We will name, shame and boycott companies that demand divisive and discriminatory Covid Passes.
A checkpoint society will *not* make us any safer.
#NoVaccinePassports
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🚨Breaking: Mass bank spying powers BINNED as #DataBill gets scrapped
We've just won against the Government's plans to sneak in powers to spy on all of our bank accounts.
This is a huge win and a result of relentless campaigning
🔸170,000 of you signed our petition, and masses of you wrote to your MPs
🔸40+ organisations and charities spoke up against mass bank spying
🔸MPs and peers across the political spectrum supported our campaign to stop these powers
We built STRONG public and parliamentary resistance to this financial snoopers' charter—and now, it's been binned.
These proposals were Orwellian, cruel and intrusive in the extreme, but thanks to your support, we have stopped these mass bank spying powers in their tracks.
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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"
@silkiecarlo speaks against digital ID on @triggerpod
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In a bold censorship move that would make China proud, YouTube has removed @talkRADIO’s entire channel.
This is an assault on free expression + must be overturned. We’re meeting Google to ask why they buried @gbdeclaration - we’ll be asking about this appalling censorship too.
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🚨Thousands of people are seeing our stopvaccinepassports.co.uk billboards across London and Manchester this weekend 🚨
Visit our campaign site to email your MP before the Covid pass vote on Tuesday!
📷 Take a snap if you see our billboards!
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The Government repeatedly told us there were no plans for vaccine passports...
We now know that while these clips were recorded, plans for Covid passes were already in the works.
👀 Why did they lie?
✊ It's time to fight back
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🚨@sajidjavid says a Covid pass will require 3 jabs, not 2, in the New Year.
There’s nothing temporary about a Covid pass. It’s an obliteration of medical privacy + free choice.
MPs must vote NO to Covid passes & mandatory vaccines for the NHS tomorrow.
BBC Politics
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🚨BREAKING: The Government in considering introducing a digital ID "BritCard" for all UK citizens.
💪 We must stop this!
“Make no mistake: the new digital ID proposal reportedly being considered by the Government is another plan for a mandatory universal ID under a new guise." - @rebecca_vincent
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🚨The Government just made a law - without parliament or even publicity - allowing police to access NHS Test & Trace data of people who are self-isolating.
This is a disastrous move that's draconian, undemocratic and misguided in equal measure.
legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021…
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You Cannot Be Serious! 😲
Everyone one at Wimbledon has to wear a *red wristband* to prove they have shown their Covid pass.
This is not “getting our freedom back”.
At all.
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❌ Reject digital ID
✊Britain has a long and proud history of rejecting proposals for mandatory ID, and we should reject this one too.
Sign & share the petition ⤵️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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🚨 NEWS 🚨
With Northern Ireland set to hold a vote on discriminatory Covid passports within days... we're on the front line!
Our billboards are all over Northern Ireland this weekend...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Northern Ireland ministers vote in favour of mandatory Covid IDs in a snap, knife-edge vote.
Everyone in NI will need a Covid ID from 29th Nov - even for pubs and restaurants.
This is invasive, unjustified and dangerously authoritarian.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i…
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This marks the first human rights legal challenge in the UK against Covid passes.
You can be a part of this historic fight today by joining the challenge now! ⤵️
crowdfunder.co.uk/join-the-c…
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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.
ALT Revealed: Plans to turn entire London borough into open air prison
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India’s massive biometric ID system is a case study for a FAILED digital ID system.
🔒 Personal data of a billion citizens was sold online for just £6 as a result of a breach - this included names, home addresses, phone numbers & photos
🍽️ People have starved to death after being denied food - for either not linking their ID card to their ration card or for not having an ID number in the first place
🩺 HIV patients have avoided treatment, fearing disclosure of their identities
A sweeping identity database will put all of our rights and freedoms at risk + it will have a huge bearing on equality.
The UK must say NO to mandatory digital ID.
ALT Al Jazeera: Starmer meets Modi - What the UK can learn from India's digital IDs
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🆔A mandatory digital ID would change "the nature of the relationship between a British citizen & the state"
@DavidDavisMP 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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This is irresponsible and discriminatory. “The unvaccinated” will include all children, pregnant women, women trying to conceive, immunosuppressed people, people who decline for reasons of religion or conscience and more. No, we never allow their freedom to be taken.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Boris Johnson announces discriminatory mandatory Covid passes for 'nightclubs & venues where large crowds gather'.
We’re outraged by the Prime Minister’s imposition which we will seek to challenge through Parliament and the courts.
crowdfunder.co.uk/join-the-c…
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🚨BREAKING🚨
We've just published...'Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected'
No one voted for digital ID, and the Government has no clear mandate to implement one.
Yet we're now on the brink of having every adult in the UK forced onto one, inserting the state into our everyday lives.
Today we can reveal the major risks of barcoding Britain.
Download & read our report⬇️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
ALT Checkpoint Britain report cover
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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 make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives, eroding our rights and freedoms.
We're saying no to digital ID & a checkpoint Britain. Read our joint letter⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press…
ALT Joint letter to Keir Starmer: "Abandon any digital ID plans", rights groups urge
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🚨Breaking: Sainsbury's has just announced that it will be trialling Orwellian live facial recognition in select UK shops:
📍Sydenham, SE London
📍Oldfield Park, Bath
With plans for nationwide rollout
For one of the UK's largest supermarkets to trial this intrusive tech is deeply disproportionate and chilling.
"Facial recognition surveillance turns shoppers into suspects, with devastating consequences for people’s lives when it inevitably makes mistakes.
@sainsburys and @Facewatch are adding customers to secret watchlists with no due process, meaning people are being falsely accused, grossly mistreated and blacklisted from shops, despite being entirely innocent.
Sainsbury's should abandon this trial and the government must urgently step in to prevent the unchecked spread of this invasive technology."
- Madeleine Stone [@madeleine_st0ne]
ALT Breaking: Sainsbury's to start spying on customers using live facial recognition
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🚨"This [Online Safety Bill] is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation for freedom of expression of recent years."
"It's a danger to democracy."
Today, we gave evidence to @OnlineSafetyCom on the #OnlineSafetyBill's impact on free speech.
Our director @silkiecarlo⤵️
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🔔TOMORROW: Politicians will be debating Starmer's Orwellian digital ID plans in Westminster Hall led by @PeteWishart MP
A digital ID scheme would be a civil liberties nightmare and turn Britain into a checkpoint society.
👉Follow for live coverage tomorrow at 4:30pm
ALT The National: SNP to lead first Westminster debate opposing Labour digital ID plans
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⚠️A digital ID system in the UK could be HACKED easily, whistleblower reveals
It’s clear, a centralised digital ID scheme would be disastrous for privacy - that’s why we’re fighting back💪
The Government must take heed & reject proposals to barcode Britain | Read⤵️
dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
ALT Daily Mail+ How a whistleblower passed me devastating proof Starmer's dream of a digital ID card could allow hackers to extort billions from the British taxpayer
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❌ Digital ID won’t stop the boats...
But it will make Britain less free
💪 Now is the time to fight back
Join us | bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/join/…
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The evidence doesn't exist.
We have begun legal action against the Welsh government for Covid passes. We can't disclose correspondence yet - but if evidence supporting Covid passes exists at all, the Welsh govnt is unwilling to provide it. Even when facing a legal challenge.
Jo Gideon MP becomes 78th revel against vaccine passports.
Rumours of resignations tomorrow of gvt members who can’t vote for this unless gvt can produce evidence that vaccine passports would have any meaningful effect on transmission
Updated list⬇️ spectator.co.uk/article/full…
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Thanks @BBCNews, but we live in something called a "parliamentary democracy" which means introducing internal health passports isn't something ministers can just "start" but something parliament has to vote on.
Well fight tooth and nail for the Government to lose that vote.
Covid-19: Vaccine passports to start in England this month bbc.in/38FmOPx
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🆔Starmer is on the verge of introducing a digital ID card for all of us
Britons have repeatedly rejected any form of mandatory ID and fought against plans for a checkpoint society.
This is our history - we can't stand back now⤵️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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🚨SCOOP: Docs reveal Covid certificates were in advanced stages last year - when Ministers were claiming there were “no plans” for them.
Covid passes are shrouded in government cover ups, lies and shady contracts...
#StopVaccinePassports
theguardian.com/world/2021/a… @peterwalker99
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How it started: 'Once powers are yielded to the state at moments of crisis or emergency, it's very rarely the case that the state hands them back.'
How it's going: @michaelgove to lead #vaccinepassport review.
📨Email your MP to #StopVaccinePassports! stopvaccinepassports.co.uk
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🚨UPDATE: Mandatory Covid passes to be SCRAPPED in Wales from next Friday!!!
👏 🎉✌️👊
🚨BREAKING: Legal documents reveal Ministers knew Covid passes “might” have “small, and probably unmeasurable” impact at best on Covid cases.
This draconian, unevidenced & pointless ID scheme must be scrapped across the UK - now!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/join-the…
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⚠️The Online Safety Act forces tech companies to censor lawful content or pay severe fines
"We’re now in a ludicrous situation where all UK internet users only have access to a childproofed version of the web unless we’re willing to undergo intrusive age verification processes” - @rebecca_vincent
Read⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
ALT Social media giants face fines for curbing free speech
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🚨The Covid vaccine status feature is now *live* on the NHS app - supposedly, for international travel.
But a close read of the privacy notice reveals:
"this data will be useful for further aspects of unlocking as they arise, e.g. (..) attendance at domestic events" 🤔😬
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🚩🚩🚩A member of the Cabinet (@NadineDorries), boasting about the existence of an opaque Whitehall Unit that forces the censorship of citizens' online speech, at its own discretion.
This is devastating for the rule of law and free speech in the UK. It cannot be tolerated.
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Please watch this - it's so important.
The #CHISBill being rushed through Parliament today is simply unconscionable.
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NEWS: The Scottish Government will use the Coronavirus Act to impose vaccine passports.
We understand Ministers will impose vaccine passports under Schedule 22, which we have warned against since March 2020.
The Act should have been repealed long ago. #RepealtheCoronavirusAct
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Q: Will you need “a domestic vaccine passport to go into a supermarket”?
A: “It’s something that hasn’t been ruled out, it’s under consideration” - @DominicRaab
A dangerously irrational and draconian response from one of the highest offices of state.
LBC
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🚨BREAKING: The Government has just announced sweeping bank spying powers in a new bill.
“We all want genuine fraudsters to face the law, especially the multi-millionaire tax avoiders and Covid scammers.
But these extreme powers are not only about fraud but about correcting the government’s own frequent payment errors.
We must be extremely cautious about the government creating a second tier justice system reserved for people who rely on welfare that side-steps fair hearings in courts to take away people’s funds and freedoms.
The public and parliament will rightly be very sceptical about empowering the government to go directly into anyone’s bank accounts to take our money and even our driving licenses, least not to target the elderly, disabled and people on the poverty line whose lives could be destroyed by mistaken punishments.
This is not quite ‘the biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’, but one of the biggest assaults on the welfare system in a generation.
It’s part of a wider plan that is turning British welfare into a digital surveillance system, with the government also introducing mass bank spying of the population under the same Bill, on the premise of constantly investigating benefits claimants.
These are totally unprecedented privacy intrusions and punishments that will do more damage to fundamental British values of fairness and justice than to the serious fraudsters.”
- Silkie Carlo | @silkiecarlo
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We strongly oppose this coercive, divisive + discriminatory move by @NicolaSturgeon to enforce vaccine IDs in Scotland.
#VaccinePassports will seriously harm rights + equality with no public health benefit. This authoritarian move MUST be stopped @ScottishLabour @scottishgreens
The FM proposes a debate and vote on the introduction of vaccine certificates in "limited" settings:
🔴 Nightclubs
🔴 Indoor live events with 500+ people unseated
🔴 Outdoor live events with 4,000+ people unseated
🔴 Any event with 10,000+ people
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🚨BREAKING: Today, we're launching groundbreaking legal action against the use of facial recognition technology in the UK.
We’re supporting two members of the public, an anti-knife crime community worker and a teenager to bring legal challenges after the technology wrongly flagged them as criminals – and they sought our help.
And we're doing this for YOU - to stop the government's alarming push to expand live facial recognition technology, turning us all into walking ID cards.
With your support we can:
🔸Take groundbreaking legal action against police and shops' use of facial recognition
🔸Demand politicians roll back live facial recognition
🔸Give legal advice & support to people affected by live facial recognition
🔸Work with groups around the world fighting live facial recognition surveillance
Support our legal action - DONATE to our crowdfunder today ⤵️
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-fac…
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Apple is removing its most robust data protection tool from UK users.
“This decision by Apple is the regrettable consequence of the Home Office’s outrageous order attempting to force Apple to breach encryption. As a result, from today Apple’s UK customers are less safe and secure than they were yesterday – and this will quickly prove to have much wider implications for internet users in the UK.
“No matter how this is framed, there is simply no such thing as a “back door” that can be limited only to criminals or that can be kept safe from hackers or foreign adversaries. Once encryption is broken for anyone, it’s broken for everyone, and as we have cautioned: this will not stop with Apple.
“We once again call on the Home Office to immediately rescind this draconian order and cease attempts to break encryption before the privacy rights of millions are eroded and the UK further ostracises itself from other democracies around the world” - @rebecca_vincent
ALT Image of Apple's Tim Cook with text reading: "Apple removes encryption service for uk users after government demanded access"
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'I want to say thank you to Big Brother Watch who provided a helpful brief on why #Covid passes must be stopped'
@SteveBakerHW reads out our recommendations on why we need to #StopVaccinePassports.
📨 Join the fight, use our tool to email your MP NOW!
stopvaccinepassports.co.uk
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🚨EXPOSED: A secretive Government unit is spying on speech that is critical of the police & government policies, damning evidence obtained by the Telegraph reveals.
In situations of public outrage, pressuring platforms to interfere with lawful expression only breeds mistrust and division.
Legitimate concerns about racism and violence must not become a blank cheque for the monitoring and censorship of controversial speech, absent of any oversight or scrutiny.
This spy unit [National Security & Online Information Team] has an appalling track record of monitoring the lawful and accurate speech of journalists, scientists, parliamentarians, human rights advocates and members of the public during the pandemic.
It should be suspended immediately and subject to a full parliamentary investigation.
ALT Government unit monitoring "two-tier policing" criticism, emails reveal
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🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨
We've issued a legal claim against the Welsh Government.
So far they have produced NO EVIDENCE to support the rollout of discriminatory and invasive Covid IDs.
@WelshLabour if you have any evidence, bring it forward!
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If people can continue to work in supermarkets, MPs can continue to work in Parliament.
#RecallParliamentNow
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🚨URGENT: @metpoliceuk has issued misleading and chilling statements ahead of today's demonstrations in London, denying our rights to organise and attend protests under current Coronavirus laws.
We have sent an urgent letter to the Met with @libertyhq to demand a correction. ⬇️
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🗣️"If there was a group of people whose accounts we would want to monitor because there has been a history of fraud-it would be MPs" - @johnmcdonnellMP
The Government's cruel mass bank spying powers target the poor - they have no place in Britain.
➡️stopbankspying.com
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🚨 Defence Secretary announces probe into Army's social media SPYING revelations 🚨
On Sunday we disclosed a whistleblower testimony that confirmed the 77th Brigade collected tweets from UK citizens posting about Covid & passed them to gov't.
📺WATCH: piped.video/tNIcapT2dfI
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TAKE ACTION: A week today, MPs will vote on whether to renew the Coronavirus Act.
-> WATCH our new short film on what you need to know about the powers in the Coronavirus Act
-> EMAIL your MP to tell them to repeal the draconian powers bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/Coron…
-> SHARE widely!
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A reminder of all the lies the Government fed us...
✊ It's time to fight back
#CovidPlanB
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🚨BREAKING: The COVID-status certificate ‘trials’ are not going ahead.
It’s unclear if they ever truly existed.
Thread! 🧵
At the start of April, the Government said it would trial COVID-status certificates to allow entry to 9 ‘pilot’ events in April and May... /1
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"We are going to say NO to vaccine passports"
... or covid status certificates, or whatever newspeak name comes next.
They're bad for trust in health authorities and bad for rights + equality. We won't comply with a future of coercion, discrimination, exclusion + surveillance.
Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, tells Julia "vaccine passports will not work," saying "the idea is absolutely ludicrous that each of us is treated like an individual biohazard."
Watch talkRADIO live ► piped.video/zc-9k1SbJ_Q
@JuliaHB1 | @silkiecarlo
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🚨The Government plans to create a massive facial recognition database out of your PASSPORT PHOTOS🚨
“Philp’s plan to subvert Brits’ passport photos into a giant police database is Orwellian and a gross violation of British privacy principles. It means that over 45 million of us with passports who gave our images for travel purposes will, without any kind of consent or the ability to object, be part of secret police lineups.
“To scan the population’s photos with highly inaccurate facial recognition technology and treat us like suspects is an outrageous assault on our privacy that totally overlooks the real reasons for shoplifting. Philp should concentrate on fixing broken policing rather than building an automated surveillance state.
“We will look at every possible avenue to challenge this Orwellian nightmare.”
- Silkie Carlo, Director, Big Brother Watch
Our full response ⤵️ | @silkiecarlo
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2023/…
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🆔 Keir Starmer is planning to force every adult in the UK to have a state-mandated digital ID to work.
Everyone in the UK should reject this.
Here are 5 reasons why⤵️
ALT 5 key arguments against a mandatory digital ID
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS
✔️The good: @BorisJohnson confirms that the Government will NOT make Covid Passes compulsory. This is a huge breakthrough! 🎉
❌The bad: Businesses are free to require Covid Passes via the NHS app if they want to. We'll boycott them... 🪧
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The Gov't repeatedly told us there were no plans for vaccine passports...
We now know that while these clips were recorded, a domestic Covid Pass was already being developed.
💪We're fighting back against this safety theatre!
🎥Watch | Subscribe 👇
piped.video/vTCea0SWDMs
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🚨From today's Urgent Question on #VaccinePassports it's clear that we have NO PLACE for divisive and discriminatory Covid IDs in our society.
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