#UK#ClimateChange#ClimateActivism#Protest#PoliceState: "Trudi Warner is, in many ways, an unlikely rebel. The 69-year-old former child mental health social worker is, in her retirement, a keen organic grower, and she spent part of last year looking after sheep on the Isle of Eigg.
She is also worried stiff by the threat of climate change, and—after the resounding European Court of Human Rights verdict against the government of Switzerland this week—who’s to say she’s wrong?
Her concern about the climate crisis and how to draw attention to it has led to the prospect of being sent to jail. She is being prosecuted by the attorney general for, as we shall see, telling an accepted truth, or, as the authorities would put it, contempt of court. Her crime, if that’s what it is, was to tell the truth in the wrong place—on a pavement outside the Inner London Crown Court."
In an exclusive interview with The Times, the Met’s director of intelligence, Lindsey Chiswick, said that the tool had been a “game-changer”, triggering an arrest every two hours of alleged criminals including rapists, burglars and robbers since it was introduced last April.
A Whitehall source said that it had been so successful that the government was planning to make a policy statement setting out its facial recognition strategy in May or June.
Anti-surveillance sticker spotted in Burnie, Tasmania.
We've got a bunch of copies of these stickers, and numerous other designs.
If anyone is interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out: https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com/
Stamp out government mass surveillance and censorship everywhere!
It's not just the Trumps, Orbans, Putins, Tusks, Modis, and Bolsonaros that we need to resist. Mass surveillance and censorship are hallmarks and weapons of totalitarianism police states. And both have been growing in popularity among liberals throughout the world, including most of the elected Democrats in the U.S.
Time for Autonomous Action for Palestine: A Conversation with Within Our Lifetime
'We will also discuss the benefit of - and existing calls for - decentralized actions, de-occupations, assemblies and gatherings, public testimonies, research/writing, media-making and agitprop, mutual aid stations, trainings and teach-ins in the streets, roving shutdowns, disruptive poetry readings, sit-ins and slow downs, strikes and marches, singing and amplifying sound, painting walls, resistance parties, wheatpasting, and other happenings.
"Within Our Lifetime is not only a name, but a promise, a motivational cry, a rally, and a call to action. It is the steadfast belief that no matter what obstacles we will face, victory of the oppressed is inevitable."'
🇷🇺 “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.
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.
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…
Remember that young lady who got pre-emptively arrested by the Met the other day on the "suspicion of conspiracy to commit domestic burglary"? Turns out the Met got their intel from a super reliable source - the Daily Fail 🤣
source JSO on the dark side
"[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'."
#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.
"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.
"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."
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.
EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and members of the public who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment.
Whether it’s phone-based location tracking, ubiquitous video recording, biometric data collection, or police access to people’s smart devices, law enforcement agencies follow closely behind their counterparts in the military and intelligence services in acquiring privacy-invasive technologies and getting access to consumer data. Just as analog surveillance historically has been used as a tool for oppression, we must understand the threat posed by emerging technologies to successfully defend civil liberties and civil rights in the digital age."
😳”A copy of an emailed threat obtained by CNN showed government offices in at least 23 states listed as recipients. The sender claimed to have placed explosives inside “your state Capitol,” although no specific state was mentioned in the email. It’s not clear if other email threats were sent.”
The alerts are part of a larger surveillance system against ethnic minority students that tracks what books they borrow, their holiday destinations, family information, and more. This raises human rights concerns for targeting Uyghurs/Muslims, amid a broader PRC crackdown.
Hikvision was contracted to "meet the requirements of the tender" including the Ramadan alerts. However, after IPVM reached out, Hikvision told its international partners that it excluded these features out of concern for human rights without supplying any evidence.
PRC sources do not mention such an exclusion, and the project's successful completion was announced in December 2022."