🔴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? 🧵 👁️ Snowden blew the whistle on GCHQ's operation OPTIC NERVE

Britain's intelligence headquarters intercepted & stored webcam images from Yahoo chats of millions of users to trial automated searches using facial recognition.

🚨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 ⤵️
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-facial-… 🔔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⤵️
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-facial-…

🚨🧵 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... 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...

but carried on anyway

🧵How can @UKLabour protect civil liberties in an age of enormous technological change?

@silkiecarlo kicks off our event during #Lab23 describing the dangers of emerging technologies that "reverse the presumption of innocence" Last week 65 parliamentarians & 32 rights groups called for an immediate stop to live facial recognition surveillance.

Baroness Chakrabarti explains why this intervention is needed now more than ever.

🚨 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

🗣️“The fact that experts were treated as threats shows that the genesis of this is profoundly anti-democratic"

@silkiecarlo tells @JuliaHB1 about the CHILLING overreach of secretive Gov't units censoring speech online.

✊SHUT DOWN the #MinistryOfTruth:

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/mini… 📲“The Counter Disinformation Unit has a HOTLINE to Big Tech…they can pressure them and ask for things to be taken down.”

@JHurfurt slams DCMS and the Cabinet Office for suppressing dissent under the guise of misinformation. #MinistryOfTruth

🚨BREAKING🚨

Today we can expose... the #MinistryOfTruth

Secretive government units & the British Army have been spying on the public, academics, journalists, human rights campaigners & MPs in the UK...

under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation’.

➡️minitruth.co.uk These secretive truth units don't just monitor disinformation - we've found they monitor, record and suppress criticism of government policies.

⚠️The #MinistryOfTruth must be shut down immediately - please sign & share our petition NOW!⤵️

change.org/p/shut-down-th…

Deliberate arrests of 3 journalists this week - under new anti-protest laws - is evidence the powers are a danger to democracy, as we warned.

We’ve written to @SuellaBraverman to urge a review of “public nuisance” powers & to pause the Public Order Bill.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/suella… The Public Order Bill would empower police to fit innocent people with GPS ankle tags to monitor their every move 24/7; to spy on & restrict their internet use; & to ban them from demonstrations.

They’re some of the most disturbing anti-democratic powers proposed in decades.

🚨NEWS🚨

We made dummy Facebook accounts to test MPs' controversial statements against Facebook's extensive content rules.

Statements by @BorisJohnson @NadineDorries & @AngelaRayner breached content rules & were removed.

The Online Safety Bill gives state backing to such bans. A comment made in 2013 by @NadineDorries - now the minister leading the Online Safety Bill - was removed by Facebook for breaching its “Community Standards on violence and incitement”.

She recently defended her comment, telling the @OnlineSafetyCom it was “totally appropriate”.

🚨BREAKING🚨

We've joined 40+ parliamentarians, 15 rights NGOs & human rights lawyers to urge @DominicRaab to launch a review of ALL Covid fines + prosecutions - now!

@DavidDavisMP @SteveBakerHW @HackneyAbbott @RLong_Bailey @amcarmichaelMP @AdamWagner1

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2022/02/covid-… ❌We estimate 25,000 of covid fines may have been unlawfully issued

❌100% of charges reviewed under the Coronavirus Act found unlawful so far - an historic failure rate - but many more have evaded review

❌Our analysis indicates thousands of further unlawful prosecutions

🚨The House of Lords is now debating the draconian #PolicingBill at Report stage.

Rushed amendments to this Bill seek to STOP some citizens from taking part in protests altogether.

❌These unprecedented measures need to be quashed. 👮‍♂️Lord Coaker (@Vernon_Coaker) addresses one of the most dangerous provisions in the Bill; allowing police to limit protests based on the criteria of noise.

🗣️The internet & social media platforms are the public squares of the modern-day. They've allowed us to communicate, organise, expose corruption & build new communities.

⚠️But our online public spheres are at risk.

🎥Join our live discussion ⤵️
"Why would we want to give more power to Big Tech to decide what is misinformation and what's not?"

- @Fox_Claire

🔴 Watch live ⤵️

🚨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.

TAKE ACTION ⬇️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop… Here's what you can do on our campaign page:

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!

#StopCoopSpying

🚨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.

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/10/youtub… 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..!).

👏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

#NoCovidID '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.

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.

🔴 LIVE NOW

Civil Liberties in a Crisis: Conservatives against Covid IDs.

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

Do you have a question to ask the panel?

Comment below ⤵️

🚨 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!

📨Use our quick tool to email your MP/MSP

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop…

🚨NEWS🚨 We've just launched our new report:

🟥The State of Free Speech Online🟥

We document the growth of big tech censorship & explain why Johnson's Online Safety Bill could be the greatest threat to free speech in the UK in living memory.

Read more: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/free… Far from “reigning in” social media companies, the Government is seeking a share of the extraordinary power to monitor, suppress + censor lawful speech on a scale never seen before.

The Online Safety Bill is disastrous for the future of free speech in the UK.

#SaveOnlineSpeech

🚨 The House of Lords is now debating *mandatory Covid vaccines* for care home workers after MPs voted to destroy our rights in a shocking snap vote last week.

⬇️More to follow ⬇️ This Statutory Instrument is:

▪️ Muddled

▪️ Confused

▪️ Disjointed

Baroness Wheeler asks for urgent publication of clear and detailed guidance for this seismic vote.

BREAKING🚨

Our new report exposes the hidden algorithms councils have been using to screen, monitor and profile people who receive benefits without their knowledge. ⬇️

These hidden algorithms “treat the poor with suspicion and prejudice".

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-578696… Find all the details in our new report, ‘Poverty Panopticon: the hidden algorithms shaping Britain’s welfare state’ ⬇️

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/upl…