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Big Brother Watch has repeatedly warned that the UK is quietly creeping into a surveillance state. Live facial recognition is being deployed across streets, train stations, shopping centres and even at public protests. But this technology is not just targeting criminals. It is scanning millions of innocent people without their knowledge or consent.

False alarms with real consequences

Studies show that the vast majority of facial recognition matches are false. According to Big Brother Watch, in 80 deployments across the UK, 89.7% of alerts were false positives. In London alone, 150 out of 173 matches by the Metropolitan Police were incorrect, resulting in an error rate of nearly 87%. In some cases, people were stopped, searched or fingerprinted as a result.

These mistakes are not harmless. They are invasive, humiliating and difficult to challenge.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Biometric-Britain.pdf

It is all connected

Facial images from passports, CCTV, phones and even social media are increasingly fed into large government and private databases. Big Brother Watch has raised concerns that a digital pound or central bank digital currency would allow the state to track every payment in real time. Combined with facial recognition and phone surveillance, this creates a fullmap of your movements, your spending and your associations.

Your phone is not private

Every step we take with a smartphone in our pocket feeds data to corporations and authorities. Location, biometrics, browsing history and more. If that is tied to payment systems and real time identity scanning, we move closer to a system where everything we do can be watched, recorded and judged.

Know Your Customer (KYC) rules are already mandating identity checks for basic services. This is not theoretical. It is happening now.

Where does this lead?

The future we are heading toward is one of forced compliance. A world in which you are monitored constantly. In which you are guilty until proven innocent. In which dissent is quietly suppressed by the knowledge that you are being watched.

We are at a turning point

If we do not push back, we risk building a society where privacy is gone, autonomy is restricted, and control is centralised in the name of convenience and safety. This goes far beyond retail surveillance. It marks the steady build up of a digital infrastructure designed for monitoring and control.

It's 1984

George Orwell warned of a future where every move was watched, every word monitored, and every thought shaped by fear. But even he did not imagine a world where your money could be used to control you.

With facial recognition and CBDCs combined, we are building something even more invasive than Orwell foresaw, a system where surveillance is not just constant but transactional, embedded into the very fabric of daily life.

When every face is scanned, every step tracked, and every payment recorded, we are not living freely. We are living under watch.

Thank you to Big Brother Watch for continuing to shine a light on these issues and holding power to account.

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Noisy signal 6mo ago

Dude I love your solutions .

During lockdown I learned that you could muck up the QR Codes with a black marker pen.

Old women are practically invisible. Amazing what they can get up to.

I refused to use my phone and instead fill in an admission form - names like Beau peep and fictional numbers and addresses.

Scoping out cameras out of range while I rest my weary feet and pull down my cap when I walk past.

Currently learning about cybersecurity from IBM lecturer Jeff Crume - to learn about the capabilities of IOTA, ph, laptops, networks , software, app and web servers. The podcasts are a year old, and practically beyond me, but now I don't feel so dumb reading Hacker news and OWASP.

No social media. My kids have divorced me. Told them if they want to talk to me - join Nostr.

Got kicked off FB - when someone was pushing vax jabs - told him I'll get out of his way, while he fast tracks himself to the check out lane. Deemed harmful speech.

Got kicked off Twitter, before Elon took over when someone was lecturing me about too many humans, making too much carbon dioxide - told him to stop breathing would help the planet - deemed harmful speech.

So, I'm new to Nostr and still finding my way around.

Run 2 phones - use top ups - one for general. Working on the other to set up for BTC buying - A new BTC ATM has arrived in my town.

I use proton mail and vpn. Family have done the same.

All transactions in cash.

Sold my share of our farm - some of it paid in BTC - locked up in a Trezor wallet - seed phrase farmed out between 8 recipients - ALL have to work together to access the funds, after I kick the bucket. No lawyers needed.

Downsized to rent a room and 2 suitcases. Currently working on one backpack.

Gave my car to a brother His was a heap. Now I catch a bus and occasional taxi.

I have surprised myself the amount of data I gave away

Birth certificate.

Bank account.

IRD record.

Social welfare.

Marriage certificate.

Education records.

Passport - now outdated

Drivers license

Gmail

Google sign in

Health reference #

Twitter

A lot of data - now in the ether.

Slowly reeling them in and fudging them.

And yes I'm in a crypto meetup. But have refused to share my data with any, but the host. I'm into Bitcoin. One is a BTC miner. The other is a crypto guru. All the others are casuals who want help with self custody, recommended exchanges, wallets, how to start ......etc

I know my choices are not everyone's cup of tea. And my family think I'm looney tune. But even though I had a great life in my prime - this end of the spectrum is the best time of my life.

Learning , learning , learning.

Andreas Antonopolous is my hero.

Despair has no room. Hope is delusional . Taking back my time and sharing knowledge, because we oldies need to get out to help the future generations is where I want to be. We owe them.