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🛒"We’ve heard from people who have been wrongly barred from shops [using live facial recognition] due to misidentification" Our Advocacy Manager @M_feeney debates a former Met Police officer on live facial recognition. Read⤵️ https://t.co/RvJm3pv2zf
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As Sainsbury's uses facial recognition cameras to crack down on shoplifting, four experts debate the technology's pros and cons.
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INTRODUCING: Part 2 of our Stablecoin Payments Report! Co-written with @CastleIslandVC and @dragonfly_xyz, with data now through August 2025. Stablecoin payments hit $10.2B monthly, up 70% since February and 137% since Aug '24, now at a $122B annual rate. Here’s how the market
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👁️Police in Manchester have deployed live facial recognition for the first time this week. And despite scanning thousands of faces – Greater Manchester Police didn’t make a SINGLE arrest during their first live facial recognition deployment. #StopFacialRecognition
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Could this get any more desperate?! “Opening drawers is hard! Here, have this multi £bn mass surveillance system” Anyway, banks etc will simply require both a digital ID *and* a separate proof of address/utility bill. (See https://t.co/WmPWmz3Liu by @AlecMuffett )
alecmuffett.com
I spent the best part of 14 hours yesterday learning how to argue with people who, perhaps blindly, believe that Digital ID will bring “advantages” to “everybody”; a detaile…
It’s frustrating having to rummage around in a drawer, looking for an old electricity bill just to open a new bank account. Digital ID will make our lives easier.
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The only thing digital ID will empower is the state.
Digital ID will be a huge help in tackling illegal immigration. But it’s so much more than that. It will empower people every single day by giving you a new way to prove who you are. Saving time and money when you apply for a mortgage by cutting down unnecessary paperwork.
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Romans 13:1b "...For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God..." What are the implications if God were to establish Zoran Mamdani as New York City's mayor? If God establishes Zoran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City, it may
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⚠️We must say #No2DigitalID "Keir Starmer has already lost the public's trust on digital IDs. Within hours of the Prime Minister selling the mandatory national ID scheme to the public on the basis of tackling illegal working, government documents emerged touting sprawling uses
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👁️The Government is funnelling MORE taxpayers' money into AI to deal with fraud & error - despite existing models being riddled with bias. "It's WRONG to subject innocent people to shadowy automated decisions" without any explanation - @JHurfurt Read⤵️ https://t.co/f3k5mBmaf3
bigissue.com
Human rights campaigners fear that the government's methods for tackling fraud in the benefits system could have "devastating consequences".
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🆔The Government in March: You'll be able to use physical ID "in every situation" The Government in September: Digital ID will be "MANDATORY for the right to work" 'Backtracking on the promise of being able to use non-digital methods to prove your identity is yet another
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Stop Britain sleepwalking into a database state. Support the campaign to say no to a mandatory digital ID. https://t.co/3guV4eHK8r
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😱 MP reveals "very serious breach of national security" Well done to @roz_savage who wittily highlighted the risks of digital ID, after having her question photographed outside #No10 in a completely transparent folder #PMQs 👏
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Celebrate the materials that build America. Join us this ROCKtober 2025!
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The Government's mandatory digital ID proposal is scandalously insecure. Today I spoke at a Westminster Hall debate on this very issue, watch here 👇
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@PeteWishart @DavidDavisMP @TweetingCollins @RachaelMaskell ✊The opposition against digital ID is MOUNTING Britain has historically rejected various forms of mandatory ID. We must reject this one too. Stay updated on actions you can take to say #No2DigitalID⤵️ https://t.co/x6drNlyXX2
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@PeteWishart @DavidDavisMP @TweetingCollins 🆔A digital ID will NOT solve complex societal issues and the public see through it - @RachaelMaskell MP tells the room.
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@PeteWishart @DavidDavisMP 💷"Billions being spent. Millions excluded. Freedoms eroded. How much taxpayer money is the Government prepared to waste on the [digital ID] scheme for which they have NO mandate and NO public support" 🗣️Victoria Collins MP [@TweetingCollins] drops the mic
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@PeteWishart 👁️Starmer's digital ID scheme "will be WORSE than the Horizon scandal" - @DavidDavisMP As early as 2022, a security team revealed that the One Login system was being developed: ❌At unsecure work stations ❌By contractors without security clearance in Romania And it could be
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Being labeled doesn’t change the truth. It only proves how powerful truth really is - and how much others hate that truth. Thanks to @Tyler2ONeil for the deep dive into the corruption of the SPLC.
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⚠️A sweeping digital ID system raises serious concerns: "Threats to privacy and civil liberties the risk of mass surveillance the dangers of government overreach and the vulnerabilities that come with storing vast quantities of personal data" @PeteWishart MP opens the debate
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🔴LIVE: Politicians debate mandatory digital ID in Westminster Hall - led by @PeteWishart MP Follow for live coverage 🧵
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👁️Police are using live facial recognition in Brent & Hammersmith & Fulham today Hammersmith & Fulham Council recently proposed plans to funnel £3 million of taxpayers' money into even more AI-powered surveillance. These plans include drones, object recognition & crowd build-up
On Tuesday 21st October 2025, we are deploying Live Facial Recognition Technology to crime hotspots in Hammersmith & Fulham borough. Find out how we are using Live Facial Recognition:
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🔔TOMORROW: Politicians will be debating Starmer's Orwellian digital ID plans in Westminster Hall led by @PeteWishart MP A digital ID scheme would be a civil liberties nightmare and turn Britain into a checkpoint society. 👉Follow for live coverage tomorrow at 4:30pm
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Science is about a total commitment to truth. We are probably better off knowing the truth about all contentious matters, although there are no guarantees about the outcome. Dr Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein sets out the terms of engagement for scientific enquiry done properly.
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⚠️This week, Greater Manchester Police will start using Orwellian live facial recognition for the first time "We shouldn't be subjected to intrusive identity checks as we go about our daily lives" - Jasleen Chaggar We're backing a groundbreaking legal action to
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