Are the “clear and effective safeguards” another secretive internal process, by any chance?
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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We need a crowd-sourced parallel surveillance network that tracks cops and politicians. Faces, license-plates, Bluetooth...
You know I really really like that. It's just for our protection, and the children, ofc
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.
Wtf is the point of cities if you can't lose yourself in the hustle and the bustle, fuck!
What a time to be alive.
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.
Did they have to get the whitest guy on the Met to announce this?
This man has dodged every photon that ever risked grazing his skin