Do you think all people deserve a level of life that affords them human dignity? Are you not a fan of fascists? According to the UK government, you could be…
#UK#FacialRecognition#PoliceState#Facewatch#Biometrics#Privacy#Surveillance: "Senior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by the Observer.
Correspondence reveals that the Home Office wrote to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warning that policing minister, Chris Philp, would “write to your commissioner” if the regulator’s investigation into Facewatch – whose facial recognition cameras have provoked huge opposition after being installed in shops – was not positive towards the firm.
An official from the Home Office’s data and identity directorate warned the ICO: “If you are about to do something imminently in Facewatch’s favour then I should be able to head that off [Philp’s intervention], otherwise we will just have to let it take its course.”
The apparent threat came two days after a closed-door meeting on 8 March between Philp, senior Home Office officials and Facewatch."
#UK#Surveillance#PoliceState#DataProtection#Migrants: "The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice and a warning to the Home Office for failing to sufficiently assess the privacy risks posed by the electronic monitoring of people arriving in the UK via unauthorised means.
The ICO has been in discussion with the Home Office since August 2022 on its pilot to place ankle tags on, and track the GPS location of, up to 600 migrants who arrived in the UK and were on immigration bail, after concerns about the scheme were raised by Privacy International.
You may remember Phoebe, who was pre-emptively arrested in central London recently on suspicion of "conspiracy to commit domestic burglary", based on (false) information provided by the Daily Mail.
Celeste Burgess sentenced to 90 days prison b/c she took abortion pills when she was 17 y.o.
charged with removing, concealing or abandoning a human body; concealing the death of another; & false reporting, after burying her miscarriage w. her mothers help
"Amazon.com Inc.’s Ring home doorbell unit says it will stop letting police departments request footage from users’ video doorbells and surveillance cameras [without a warrant], retreating from a practice that was criticized by civil liberties groups and some elected officials."
When I was younger, I learned about how the authorities persecuted civil rights leaders in the '60s. Especially some of the earliest lessons, which might even have been in high school, came with the flavor of "of course this was wrong, and we've revised government so this doesn't happen anymore."
Bullshit. The #StopCopCity arrests are more of the same, like COINTELPRO and the FBI going after MLK.
"[F]rom 2008 to 2011, Simcox worked at the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), a right-wing think tank which produced work focusing on counter-terrorism and Muslims ... [i]ts director was Douglas Murray."
"One of its founders, Matthew Jamison, denounced it as a 'monstrous animal' and a 'deeply anti-Muslim racist organisation'."
🇷🇺 “The intelligence services are focused on political investigation and intimidation of citizens. They do not fulfill their direct responsibility to protect society from real threats,” political observer Dmitry Kolezev wrote.
"I've asked the police what powers they need to bring order to our streets. Those who abuse their right to protest undermine public safety and our democratic values."
After directly relating the rise in antisemitism to the ceasefire protests.
If you claim to be against the #PoliceState in the U.S. and claim to support #BLM yet still defend and try to justify the #Genocide in #Palestine that #Isreal is committing right now, then you aren't living your values. Please reflect and take some time to look up #DeadlyExchange to start.
Detained at a US airport & asked about Israel & #Gaza for 2 hours. Why? Ilan Pappé
Border agents asked whether I believe #Israel is committing #genocide & what I think of popular #protest slogans shortly after landing in Detroit
My initial attempt to find out why I was stopped was disregarded. It was clear the agents were asking the questions & my role was to answer them. So until today I did not officially receive any explanation for detention
Netpol: "The National Security Act 2023 introduced to counter "malign activity undertaken by foreign actors" created a new offence of entering a "prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK". It was always open to abuse - and now a gate of an Elbit arms facility has this warning" 👇
Very concerning: An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to US-Police Departments. A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by Israeli police & many settlements. There’s a documented history of US-Israel security tech exchanges, which civil rights & racial justice advocates have long criticized for contributing to the militarization of the police: #Surveillance#PoliceState#Racism#Droneshttps://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/
AFTER RAIDS, NYPD DENIED STUDENT PROTESTERS WATER AND FOOD IN JAIL
STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.