Charlie Whelton

Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition Technology will now be used up to 10 times a week across five days, up from four times a week across two days

We can expect to see a lot more of it unfortunately. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Times headline: Tony Blair: Bring in digital IDs to get tough on populism The former Labour prime minister is driving the idea that the public will sacrifice privacy for efficiency

Find someone who loves you as much as Tony Blair loves ID cards.

Some very good news from Asylum Aid. The Safety of Rwanda Act was a nasty and nonsensical affront to the rule of law and the UK’s international obligations. Good riddance.

🎉 HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Katy Watts for being named in Big Issue's Top 100 Changemakers of 2025!

She's leading the fight against Government anti-protest laws that were ruled unlawful in our landmark legal challenge.

#DefendDemocracy

The retention of custody images of people never even charged with a crime is made even more concerning by the growth of unregulated and dangerous facial recognition technology. The police must urgently correct this serious intrusion on people's privacy.

We had hoped right up until this week that the new Home Secretary would see sense and drop her predecessor’s appeal. Unfortunately not!

We at Liberty are back in court today protecting your rights against the new government’s defence of the last government’s dodgy laws.

Katy has led all this work. If you’re interested in the right to protest and our attempts to hold the government to account, follow her.

Seven hundred and fifteen million pounds. The cost is obviously not what is wrong with the Rwanda scheme, but nonetheless that figure is extraordinary.

Screenshot from House of Commons order paper showing Sir Desmond Swayne's nomination as member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights

Oh come on.

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Thank you! Been hoping for something like this.

Our client was one of the last on the plane to Rwanda in June 2022. Worth remembering that if it weren’t for the European Court, he & other asylum seekers wd’ve been unlawfully sent to Rwanda where they cd’ve been exposed to a variety of human rights abuses incl return to their countries of origin.

Rees-Mogg complaining about Mcvey getting a “tokenistic” job when he had one too

Times Diary.

Fun seeing who has and hasn't read the Supreme Court judgment based on which people are just continuing to witter on about the ECHR.

The Supreme Court explicitly states that today's Rwanda appeal decision does not depend on ECHR.

In other words: UK leaving ECHR would not make a difference to this decision.

Very pleased that the Rwanda plan has been ruled unlawful. Listening to Lord Reed today, it’s amazing it could even have been in doubt. Full judgment here:

www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

The best Brian Jordan Alvarez character, however big ‘sitting’ gets.

Absolutely. But even beyond that since he changed it to push the worst people on the site to the top of all replies, it’s just unusable without the ability to block them.