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2 Dec
🚨NEWS: Co-op supermarkets @TheSouthernCoop have DOUBLED their live facial recognition cameras.

Face scanners are now in stores across Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brighton & Hove, Chichester, Southampton, West London and West Ewell.

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1. Use our quick email tool to tell Southern Co-op to drop facial recognition

2. Use our Tweet tool to spread the word

3. Download our leaflet - if your local store is using facial recognition, let people know!

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The @TheSouthernCoop supermarkets using live facial recognition are:

In Portsmouth: Devonshire Sq; New Road; Great Southsea Street; Northern Parade; Twyford Ave; Eastney Road; Fawcett Road; Tangier Road; The Hard; Winter Rd; Copnor Rd; Elm Grove; Tregaron Ave; Drayton Havant Rd
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14 Oct
🚨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.

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YouTube removed Davis’ speech, filmed at our conference fringe event, for violating its policy on “medical misinformation” but did not specify what content had breached the rules.

YouTube's claim is potentially libellous - Davis' speech was wholly accurate (and brilliant..!).
In the censored speech, @DavidDavisMP promoted vaccine benefits but warned that Covid IDs are “illiberal, demanding that we an ordinary British citizen produce our papers to do something which is normal in our daily lives.”

The speech can be viewed here:

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11 Oct
👏A huge thanks to everyone who took part in our event during #CPC21.

⚠️ Covid IDs will not protect public health but will lead us to a checkpoint society.⚠️

@JuliaHB1 | @SteveBakerHW | @DavidDavisMP | @MorrisseyHelena | @SirGrahamBrady | @CGreenUK

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'Not only are vaccine passports illiberal, they are also deceptively dangerous,'

@DavidDavisMP says Covid IDs will have the opposite effect of that which is intended.
'It's the job of the politician to say no, we're going to restrain power because the price you demand is just too great...'

@SteveBakerHW on the need to stand up to coercion and rebel against discriminatory & divisive Covid IDs.
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5 Oct
We are outside the Senedd with one clear message:

No Covid ID for Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Senedd Members will be voting at 7pm - updates coming

#NoVaccinePassportAnywhere
❌We cannot have a checkpoint society where you reveal your private medical data to go to a club, to go to university, to go on public transport.

@JHurfurt speaks outside the Senedd.
🤞 Opposition is stacking up...

#NoCovidID

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4 Oct
🔴 LIVE NOW

Civil Liberties in a Crisis: Conservatives against Covid IDs.

#CPC21 | @DavidDavisMP | @JuliaHB1 (Chair) | @SteveBakerHW | @CGreenUK | @MorrisseyHelena | @SirGrahamBrady | #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere

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6 Sep
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

In case they weren't getting the message... we've taken it right to parliament

#NoCovidID | #NoVaccinePassports
❌We will not accept a two-tier society, exclusion or checkpoints. We will not accept Covid IDs.

Snap votes on mandatory Covid IDs will be held within days. The time to act is NOW!

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❌No to exclusion
❌No to checkpoints
❌No to discrimination
❌NO TO COVID ID

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