Rebecca Vincent
@rebecca_vincent
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Interim Director of Big Brother Watch. Former Campaigns Director at Reporters Without Borders. Human rights | civil liberties | social justice ✌️
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Joined June 2010
That’s a wrap, after 3,054 days defending press freedom with @RSF_inter. It’s been the privilege of a lifetime (so far!). Thank you to our wonderful global team for everything over these 8.5 years - and the very best of luck with your crucial continued fight for journalism!
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🪪The Government wants to barcode Britain with a digital ID card. "We are sleepwalking into a dystopian nightmare where….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🆔The Government wants to turn Britain into a digital identity-backed database state. A mandatory digital ID would "sim….
independent.co.uk
Top minister says Britain ‘behind the curve’ in roll out of national ID cards
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨 Keir Starmer considering introducing MANDATORY digital ID cards for everyone. “We are alarmed by this escalation in….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚔Met Police used new DRACONIAN stop & search powers against 47 protestors - 40 of whom were demonstrating against the….
theguardian.com
Big Brother Watch finds 40 of 47 uses of new power were at Gaza protest, with zero arrests suggesting ‘no justification’
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨Breaking: Sainsbury's has just announced that it will be trialling Orwellian live facial recognition in select UK sho….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🔔HUGE NEWS: The Met’s use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL - the UK's human rights regulator believes. We're bac….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨BREAKING: The Met Police's use of live facial recognition is UNLAWFUL - the UK's human rights regulator believes. Tod….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨The Home Office has reportedly agreed to DROP its demand that Apple allow government spying on encrypted messages. T….
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RT @LBC: ‘This turns us all into a nation of suspects.’. @BigBrotherWatch’s Rebecca Vincent explains why the group is urging the Met Polic….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨 BREAKING 🚨. We've led a joint letter with the UK’s leading rights & racial justice orgs to the @metpoliceuk urging t….
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Police use of live facial recognition heats up over the summer, UK internet users are now forced onto a childproofed version of the web, and hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested for supporting Palestine Action. All in my new @CityAM column🗞️.
cityam.com
With the Met primed to use live facial recognition tech at the upcoming Notting Hill Carnival, primary legislation is needed urgently.
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👀 Is this the summer of facial recognition? . Seven more police forces across the UK will soon be rolling it out - a massive escalation. I’ve been speaking to media all day about the dangers of this invasive tech & why we urgently need legislation to protect our rights.
👁️Live facial recognition is "turning the whole nation into a country of suspects" - @rebecca_vincent. That is why we're backing a legal challenge to #StopFacialRecognition. There's no place for this Orwellian tech in Britain, we told the nation on Good Morning Britain today.
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: ⚠️The Met Police will be scanning everyone's faces at Notting Hill Carnival later this month. "Police and private sec….
cityam.com
With the Met primed to use live facial recognition tech at the upcoming Notting Hill Carnival, primary legislation is needed urgently.
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨Breaking: Home Office announces UNPRECEDENTED expansion of Orwellian live facial recognition technology. "This unpre….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨YOUR passport photo has secretly been turned into a facial recognition police mugshot - putting everyone's privacy at….
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RT @prospect_uk: 🎧: The government is considering introducing digital ID cards. But is it a good idea? Former Labour Home Secretary David B….
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett debates Rebecca Vincent, from the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🆔A secretive proposal drafted by the Tony Blair Institute on digital ID is being reportedly considered by the Governme….
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RT @IAI_TV: "You’re not going to want to miss our headline debate at the upcoming IAI Live: The Price of Being No One. Streaming live on th….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 🚨Urgent update from our director @silkiecarlo on her legal challenge to #StopFacialRecognition:. A court has just orde….
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: 👁️Live facial recognition to be used at the Notting Hill Carnival this year. "The Met should channel its resources in….
bbc.co.uk
The Met Police says the cameras will be used on the approach to and exit from Notting Hill Carnival.
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