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EXC: Who is behind the controversial facial recognition software used by the government to register EU citizens post-Brexit, which has been condemned by Remainers and privacy campaigners?

Two five-figure donors to Change UK. You couldn’t make it up...

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Privacy International says the Home Office app equates to “border guards knocking on every door in the U.K. and forcing EU nationals to show documentation“ and that "such use of biometrics across our lives is incredibly dangerous”
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Remain campaigner David Lammy warned it put the government “on track for another Home Office scandal on the scale of Windrush” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
According to Forbes, the firm behind the facial recognition software – iProov – is “positively salivating at the prospect" of the UK leaving the EU and is “making millions from the Brexit immigration nightmare” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
Guess who are behind iProov? Jeremy Isaacs and Roger Nagioff... key donors to Change UK, which wants to stay in the EU and keep free movement buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
Why is pro-immigration, anti-Brexit Change UK accepting donations from investors in a company which is profiting from stricter Brexit immigration laws?

Change UK spokesperson: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
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EXCLUSIVE: Footage from a private meeting at the Ritz shows Nigel Farage soliciting Brexit Party donations from a millionaire Putin cheerleader and an influencer who has made a string of anti-Muslim comments

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