Overcorrection Underway? UK Goes to War With The Internet After Social Unrest it Blames on Social Media
UK eyes crackdown on social media, while a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back.
UK eyes crackdown on social media, while a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back.
Declaring “far-right hatred” the immediate challenge, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a rollout of facial recognition technology.
The UK government’s Counter Disinformation Unit reportedly logged statements from a Green Party MP during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Thousands of Britons face the prospect of having coronavirus lockdown violations remaining on criminal background checks for the next decade.
A National Health Service (NHS) doctor confronted Britain’s Health Secretary over his decision to make vaccines mandatory for healthcare staff on camera.
The introduction of Covid passes in England will lead to mandatory vaccination, creating a “subclass of people who are treated as unclean, unsafe, and excluded”, privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has warned.
Tory MPs have called for Boris Johnson to end online anonymity in the wake of the suspected terror attack on Sir David Amess MP.
Facial recognition payment systems have been implemented in British schools under the guise of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The UK will implement a facial recognition system for public services after already introducing the technology for its vaccine passport app.
A speech by former Cabinet minister and Tory leadership contender David Davis MP against vaccine passports has been wiped from YouTube for “contradict[ing] expert consensus”.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart London, Sir Graham Brady, whose role as the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs makes him the most powerful Conservative in the United Kingdom outside of government, criticised the “heavy-handed” policing seen during Australia’s strict coronavirus lockdowns.
Boris Johnson’s government has once again raised the spectre of imposing a vaccine passport scheme under a so-called “Plan B” for the winter.
Tony Blair said the government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports to stop another lockdown.
The British government is said to be planning a advertising push against encrypted messaging apps such for supposedly subverting police.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Tory MPs to bring vaccine passports to attend a party at Downing Street.
Britain is facing a “dystopian” future in which facial recognition is used to turn public spaces into “open-air prisons” say campaigners.
Thousands of Britons gathered in London to protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson plan to mandate vaccine passports for daily life.
Tory lockdown sceptics are threatening to boycott October’s Conservative Party Conference if vaccination passports become a legal requirement for entry under government guidelines.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face a party rebellion over his recent announcement for mandatory vaccinations to enter nightclubs and other large social venues, with at least 42 Conservative MPs signing Big Brother Watch’s declaration against vaccine passports.
The UK’s vaccine passport system could be “redeployed” as a national ID card, a firm developing the health pass for the government has said.
Privacy campaigners have condemned as the makings of a “checkpoint society” calls by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for large venues to adopt entry by vaccine passport only “as a matter of responsibility”.
The British government has been reported to have secretly surveilled the movements of millions of citizens to track changes in behaviour following the administration of coronavirus vaccines.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly introduce a trial run for domestic coronavirus passports, testing the scheme at a few high profile events over the coming weeks.
One year after draconian lockdown measures were imposed upon the British public, a review from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has shown that all prosecutions brought under the Coronavirus Act have been unlawful. The Coronavirus Act, which was introduced by the
The British government is reportedly seeking to extend powers granted to police to crack down on protests even after lockdown restrictions are lifted, raising concerns about the state of freedom of speech in the country.
PM Boris Johnson has signalled that vaccine passports may be required domestically within the UK for Britons to go to the pub or the theatre.
A police force in Merseyside, England was forced to apologise after officers paraded around a local car park with a van emblazoned with an electronic billboard that read “Being Offensive is an Offence” during a so-called “hate crime awareness event”.
British scientists have warned that travellers will be required to take a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus every single time they go on a foreign holiday.
British foreign secretary Dominic Raab predicted on Sunday that businesses in the United Kingdom will begin requiring a form of vaccine passport for their customers. In the latest example of the mixed messages coming from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government
The European Commissioner for the internal market described the storming the U.S. Congress as the “9/11 moment of social media” and has called for the United States to work alongside the EU to implement more restrictions on speech on the
Internal documents from the European Union Council reveal that the bloc is seeking to ban end-to-end encryption on messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal, following the recent Islamic terror attacks in France and Austria. A draft Council of the
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of the United Kingdom will begin reviewing every charge, conviction, and sentence that has been brought under emergency laws following reports that overzealous police have wrongfully charged people during the pandemic.
Europe’s human rights court has handed a partial victory to civil rights groups challenging the legality of government surveillance programs.