“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”

nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technol…

#Meta #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #Surveillance #Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

"The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of #FacialRecognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in #Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, trace, and abduct thousands of Palestinian civilians passing through checkpoints."

#UKPol #Surveillance #Israel

aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/u…

UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza

Concerns rise as UK partners with controversial facial recognition company used by Israel in Gaza.

^{Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera)}