Simon Flett on Nostr: ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/surveillance-britain-police-photos-facial-recognition?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
The #Tories do this "quietly" because legislators who know the laws they are passing are wrong always do it quietly. In the dying days of GDR the Stasi secret police pulped files (visit Leipzig museum). They were "secret" too bc they knew spying on fellow citizens was morally wrong. This is not policing by consent, but policing by data theft & surveillance. So, in their final months of office, #EnglishNationalists file through the yes lobby like drones approving bad law.
The #Tories do this "quietly" because legislators who know the laws they are passing are wrong always do it quietly. In the dying days of GDR the Stasi secret police pulped files (visit Leipzig museum). They were "secret" too bc they knew spying on fellow citizens was morally wrong. This is not policing by consent, but policing by data theft & surveillance. So, in their final months of office, #EnglishNationalists file through the yes lobby like drones approving bad law.