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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer threatens mandatory ID checks to use mobile phones "Protecting children online is vital, but these are outrageous plans that will fail to address the underlying causes of online harm. This will only result in population-wide ID checks for all of us to use our phones, tablets and laptops. "Put simply, the Labour Government is threatening ID checks for the internet. No one in a democracy should need to show their passport just to get online. "These plans would replace efforts for meaningful tech and parental responsibility with performative, authoritarian government control that children can easily circumvent by accessing adult-registered devices. However, for the UK's 50 million adults using the internet, this backdoor digital ID requirement would invoke the death of anonymity and internet privacy. "The Government's plan very likely means that unless you submit to intrusive identity checks when setting up your phone or computer, there will be a chokehold on your software and internet access leaving you with a child-locked device. Planned restrictions on messaging, streaming and browsing raise the potential of spyware in our pockets that will be exploited for other purposes before long. "The Government mandating that all phones in Britain require ID and surveillance software is a crossing of the Rubicon that would make the UK one of the most authoritarian internet regimes in the world. This extreme technological censorship requires rigorous public and parliamentary scrutiny that is currently totally missing" - Silkie Carlo | Silkie Carlo
Big Brother Watch210,803 views • 3 months ago
📢 Free speech is a fundamental right, core to our democracy & it's under attack Thousands are being arrested for controversial speech, online jokes & peaceful protest We've blasted the message to restore free speech across London, reaching the powerful in Westminster & beyond
Big Brother Watch18,181 views • 11 days ago
![😱This animal rights activist [Anneka Svenska] was told to do an "online thinking skills" course by the police Her so-called crime? Posting a video online about the incineration of beagles. The #OnlineSafetyAct is a censor’s charter. We need a legal overhaul urgently.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2086422823040328034/media/HPR00tzW4AAZpPS.jpg)
😱This animal rights activist [Anneka Svenska] was told to do an "online thinking skills" course by the police Her so-called crime? Posting a video online about the incineration of beagles. The #OnlineSafetyAct is a censor’s charter. We need a legal overhaul urgently.
Big Brother Watch49,945 views • 1 month ago
⚠️ History warns us against digital ID. Keir Starmer recently told his Cabinet & the media that he is considering plans for a mandatory digital ID scheme, which could give the state enormous control & treat the population with suspicion. They must reject these plans.
Big Brother Watch144,432 views • 1 year ago
⚠️We warned about this UK citizens are being forced to choose between handing over their most sensitive personal data to online platforms or being blocked from freely accessing the internet, as the Online Safety Act comes into force These measures will have a catastrophic impact on privacy & freedom online. The Act needs to be urgently re-examined.
Big Brother Watch157,924 views • 1 year ago
🆔A mandatory digital ID would change "the nature of the relationship between a British citizen & the state" David Davis MP joins us in delivering our petition REJECTING digital ID to No 10 Britain has historically rejected various forms of mandatory ID - we must reject this too
Big Brother Watch82,961 views • 10 months ago
⚠️Digital ID + facial recognition Snuck into the digital ID consultation is an admission that the police would be allowed to repurpose our digital ID photos as mugshots to create a population-wide facial recognition database. It is for precisely this reason that the public is rightly sceptical of a sprawling ID system that has been sold to us under various guises - whether to 'stop the boats' or improve public services - but which invariably hands more power and more of our personal information to the state, at our expense.
Big Brother Watch43,426 views • 6 months ago
👑The #KingsSpeech revealed plans to add yet more spying powers to the Snoopers' Charter. "The Government says it will give them the power to veto private tech companies' privacy and security features. Such powers would be more extreme than even the world's most despotic regimes. This would be yet another Bill that would exert extraordinary control to treat private companies as extensions of the state in order to conduct mass surveillance of millions of law-abiding citizens. It would be a major blow to the population's security." - Silkie Carlo, Director, Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch138,979 views • 2 years ago
🆔Social media ban = digital ID for the internet? Aside from FAILING to keep children safe, this proposal could force us all to "digitally verify to participate in the public square." Claire Fox opposes the proposed social media ban for under-16s at last night's debate
Big Brother Watch43,970 views • 8 months ago