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Are the “clear and effective safeguards” another secretive internal process, by any chance?
What happens if you put on a balaclava and sunglasses anytime you see one? Is that even illegal?
No then society will collapse from terror attacks. Unless it’s corona then everyone can wear a full face mask and nothing happens.
To make things worse: according to a freedom of information request filed in 2020 with all 32 councils in London, as well as 20 other major UK cities, about two-thirds of public cameras are made by two Chinese companies (Hikvision and Dahua) that are both accused of links to the repression minority groups in China, including allegations of forced sterilisation, slave labour and mass internment.
This will expose ordinary citizens to a foreign dictatorial regime, including those who fled from China and other countries to the UK to escape repression.
What a time to be alive.
Did they have to get the whitest guy on the Met to announce this?
We need a crowd-sourced parallel surveillance network that tracks cops and politicians. Faces, license-plates, Bluetooth…
