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@BigBrotherWatch
Jan 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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🚨 We're officially launching our report, #MinistryOfTruth - The secretive government units spying on your speech

🔴 FOLLOW for live updates ⤵️
⚡David Davis asks if George Orwell was alive today, would he have invented the units in our #MinistryOfTruth report?

➡️ Find out more about them at minitruth.co.uk
@JuliaHB1 tells the room that the #MinistryOfTruth report is about sticking up for democracy.

⚠️ She gives multiple examples of how her tweets were flagged by these secretive units.
@carlheneghan says he is in favour of the Big Brother Watch call to shut down the #MinistryOfTruth

Sign our petition today: change.org/p/shut-down-th…
Gavin Millar KC says that NO ONE in the report is a national security risk, questioning the motives of these units and calling for full transparency.
Thank you to everyone who joined our report launch this evening.

Please help us to shut down the #MinistryOfTruth

1) Sing our petition: change.org/p/shut-down-th…

2) Become a Big Brother Watch supporter and receive a free #MinistryOfTruth T-shirt ⬇️

Bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/join/now/

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Jun 24
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Iceland's rollout of facial recognition is chilling ❄️

Thousands of people will have their privacy rights violated just to buy basic necessities, and Iceland will turn its shoppers into suspects, making them submit to a biometric identity check as part of their daily lives.

Just last week we saw @Facewatch embroiled in a scandal when its dystopian tech was used to falsely accuse a woman of shoplifting, and throw her out of the store.

@icelandrichard should abandon this rollout and put its customers' privacy first, and the government must act to rein in the uncheck expansion of this intrusive technology.

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Jun 16
🔴LIVE from Parliament: We're now launching our pioneering report, Big Bank is Watching You: Preserving Privacy Amid the Rise of #CBDCs

Follow for updates ⤵️Image
"A #CBDC would mark a profound shift in our relationship to the state because they have the potential for the Government to insert into every transaction we make"

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Feb 3
🚨LIVE: Powers to spy on ALL of our bank accounts buried in the the Government’s Fraud, Error & Recovery Bill are being debated in Parliament now

These powers aimed at Britain's poorest will impact all of us, taking away our financial privacy & freedom

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Jun 21, 2024
🔴11 years ago, @‌Snowden blew the whistle on mass surveillance.

UK intelligence agency GCHQ had spied on millions of Britons - with aid from the US National Security Agency

What surveillance operations did Snowden expose & where do we stand today? 🧵 Graphic of Edward Snowden
👁️ Snowden blew the whistle on GCHQ's operation OPTIC NERVE

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⚠️ Today, police are conducting facial recognition searches using our PASSPORT PHOTOS

Shops across the UK are also using facial recognition to spy on customers

This generalised mass surveillance of the population is reversing the presumption of innocence Image
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May 24, 2024
🚨BREAKING: Today, we're launching groundbreaking legal action against the use of facial recognition technology in the UK.

We’re supporting two members of the public, an anti-knife crime community worker and a teenager to bring legal challenges after the technology wrongly flagged them as criminals – and they sought our help.

And we're doing this for YOU - to stop the government's alarming push to expand live facial recognition technology, turning us all into walking ID cards.

With your support we can:
🔸Take groundbreaking legal action against police and shops' use of facial recognition
🔸Demand politicians roll back live facial recognition
🔸Give legal advice & support to people affected by live facial recognition
🔸Work with groups around the world fighting live facial recognition surveillance

Support our legal action - DONATE to our crowdfunder today ⤵️
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🔔The time to act is NOW

This legal action to #StopFacialRecognition is the culmination of seven years of relentless campaigning, marked by countless highs and lows and immense hard work.

Donate today⤵️
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👁️Wrongly stopped by facial recognition

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Dec 15, 2023
🚨🧵 Newly obtained documents expose British military operatives's bizarre social media surveillance during the pandemic.

Were they REALLY countering dangerous disinformation?

Or conducting Government reputation management?

YOU be the judge... Image
Internal documents that we have also obtained reveal British soldiers factored in the “potential risk” of “spying” or “conducting PSYOPs on the UK” in their “counter disinformation” work...

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