surveillance
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Big Brother Watch responds to £7.5m Clearview AI fine by the ICO
“This important enforcement action by the ICO should be another nail in the coffin for facial recognition in the UK.” Continue reading
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Malcolm’s Growing Socialist, Anti-imperialist, Anti-Zionist and Pan-African Outlook Made Him Target of the “Deep State”
Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has now cleared Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam who were wrongfully convicted of Malcolm’s 1965 murder. Vance and other government authorities, however, refused to investigate the FBI, NYPD, CIA, and other government agencies for their role in his killing. Continue reading
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Pegasus spyware row is really about who controls cyber weapons
The Israeli spy software firm NSO Group has rarely been out of the headlines over the past year. Its spyware tool Pegasus worms its way into phones, accessing data and turning on the microphone and camera to act as round-the-clock surveillance equipment. Authoritarian states have reportedly bought the cyber weapon from NSO and put it to nefarious… Continue reading
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UK can join EU surveillance schemes with no parliamentary scrutiny, warns new report
The UK can join intrusive EU surveillance schemes including a pan-European network of police facial recognition databases with no need for parliamentary debate or scrutiny, says a new report published last week by Statewatch. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch responds to new government anti-encryption campaign
“The Home Office’s bizarre attack on end-to-end encryption is an attack on a technology that Government ministers use for communication every day. It’s disturbing to see such a cynical campaign launched in attempt to justify yet wider and deeper state surveillance of everyday, private conversations. Continue reading
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OTF – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps – is Staffed Full of Spies
WASHINGTON – The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is one of the most influential and celebrated organizations in the hacking and internet freedom communities. Well over two billion people globally use OTF-produced software, including communications app Signal and web browser Tor, services that are specifically marketed to privacy-conscious consumers looking to circumvent government censorship and surveillance. Yet its close… Continue reading
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The Covid Vaccine War
SPR and several independent geopolitical analysts have been warning since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that the pandemic might be used as a rationale or pretext to impose a global digital biometric identity system, introduced as “vaccine passports”, that may later be expanded into a Chinese-style “social credit” population control system. Continue reading
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WATCH: Digital ID: Freedom-As-A-Service. The Lure of Entitlement as the Method for Entrapment
From the roll-out of vaccine credentials/accreditations, to obtain health passes (under ID2020 Good Health Pass framework) in order to access services – experimental jabs are the portal to achieving a digital identification global infrastructure – an imperative for a seamless functioning of “ecosystems” (digital finance/wallets, data economy, smart cities, etc.) within the fourth industrial revolution… Continue reading
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From citizen scores to facial recognition – we’re fighting back!
13 November 2021 — Big Brother Watch t’s been a busy few weeks at Big Brother Watch, as ever! Here’s a quick run down of what we’ve been doing to fight facial recognition, ‘no jab no job‘ policies, censorship, and citizen scoring in the welfare system. Continue reading
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On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies
On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies 26/10/2021Tim Street SkyGuardian flight trials over the UK in September 2021 In the last few months Drone Wars and UK Drone Watch have organised protests outside RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and RAF Lossiemouth in North East Scotland. We were protesting the decision to allow US arms… Continue reading
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The PATRIOT Act And The Whistleblowers Who Challenged Mass Surveillance After 9/11
[Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter continues a retrospective on this transformation in policing and government.] Mark Klein worked for over twenty years as a technician for the AT&T Corporation. He blew the whistle on the AT&T’s collaboration with… Continue reading
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What’s Really at Stake with Vaccine Passports
In May 2020, Elizabeth M. Renieris, an adviser to the ID2020 Alliance, which aims to bring digital identities to billions of people, resigned over the organization’s direction on digital immunity passes and COVID-19. In her resignation Renieris cited ID2020’s opacity, “techno-solutionism” and corporate influence along with the risks of applying blockchain to immunity passes. Continue reading
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Covid passports – illiberal, intrusive, and counterproductive
We consider that the ‘Plan B’ outline of Covid-status certification removes fundamental liberties, while having no justification in public health. Continue reading
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Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners
Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on the rise of Big Tech speech police. Continue reading
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Watch SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups
As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with political activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners’ double lives. Continue reading
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Blinken comes riding the Pegasus
Pegasus, the winged divine horse from Greek mythology, symbolises a range of things. The mythological salad can include many symbolic narratives — ranging from soul’s immortality to poetic inspiration — even the Marxist eschatological myth of the withering away of the state. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 