In Europe, the controversy surrounding what is popularly known as the “Chat Control” project — proposed EU regulation officially aimed at combating child sexual abuse material — has, for months, been crystallizing massive opposition on both technical and civic fronts.
Totalitarianism is growing at a terrifying speed in what was once considered the free world. “Digital identification” (digital ID) is now being pushed by world leaders, the World Economic Forum, and the tech billionaire set.
Although this rollout has the potential to affect negatively everyone on the planet, the media, instead of reporting it, seems happy distracting the public with a Gaza obsession; unserious culture wars over wokeness, transgenderism, “climate change” and so on.
Britain has long been one of the most surveilled democracies in the world. But under Starmer’s government, things are about to take a more sinister turn. It seems we are all going to be watched by facial recognition cameras as well.
According to a Home Office consultation launched on Thursday, the government is developing a new legal framework to expand the use of facial recognition technology. Rarely seen outside of China, live facial recognition cameras – which constantly scan live CCTV footage – could be installed in every town centre up and down the country. It used to be that only hardened criminals would end up on a police line-up. Soon, every member of the general public will feature on its digital equivalent.
The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is launching a world-first trial of facial recognition-enabled Body Worn Video (BWV) cameras as part of a month-long Proof of Concept aimed at enhancing officer and public safety.
Starting Wednesday, up to 50 officers will use the new cameras during their regular shifts.
(Incognito)
British civil servants are reportedly being trained on how to monitor and push back against so-called “high-risk narratives” on social media, such as posts opposing the mass migration agenda imposed on the country.
A deep state team within the Cabinet Office, the Government Communications Service (GCS), has been tasked by the government with combating supposed “disinformation” while simultaneously promoting the government line through “counter-narratives” online.
Britain’s WhatsApping parents can sleep a little easier in their beds. Remember the Borehamwood couple, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, arrested in January after they had complained about their daughter’s primary school on a parents’ WhatsApp group? Well, Hertfordshire Constabulary have now conceded that the arrest, at the hands of six of their officers, was unlawful. Better late than never, I suppose.
Britain’s police state can today be unmasked as the Daily Mail can reveal which forces have made the most arrests for ‘offensive’ posts on social media.
Figures obtained by the Daily Mail show that some forces are making arrests for ‘offensive’ social media posts at ‘extremely concerning’ rates.
On Britain’s authoritarian turn
It is only appropriate that the head of Britain’s government should be Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer and former head of the nation’s prosecuting authorities, because Britain now prosecutes its own citizens—if they say the wrong things. The ideology and culture of human rights, whether by design or not, have served to make the country safer for criminals, increase mass illegal immigration, curtail freedom of speech, and entrench a sprawling ideological bureaucracy.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the economy, boosting productivity while simultaneously threatening widespread job displacement. As AI progresses, a growing number of workers face unemployment or precarious employment, fueling political pressure for Universal Basic Income (UBI)—typically understood as unconditional payments aiming to guarantee a basic standard of living.
The Ford government’s automated speed enforcement legislation will become law just two weeks after it was first introduced, compelling municipalities to remove speed cameras before roundabouts, speed bumps and flashing lights have been installed.
Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said an omnibus red tape bill, which includes the speed camera ban, will receive royal assent next Monday, with municipalities then required to remove the cameras by Nov. 14.
WRPS hosting public info sessions ahead of new tech launch
In an effort to remain transparent, Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS) will be hosting several public information sessions ahead of the installation of new closed-circuit television (CCTV) and automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.
WRPS plan to use new CCTV equipped with ALPR systems to help prevent and investigate crime.
Every day the screw tightens until it’s too late …
And the little ‘s lying through his teeth. Pure theatre.@fancypants_s https://t.co/tMhAjf5DSw
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 26, 2025
h/t Patti Jo and Auntie Polly
Many voices—this time, even on the political left—in politics and journalism sharply criticized the police search of author and scholar Norbert Bolz’s home on Thursday. Ricarda Lang, former leader of Germany’s Green Party, emphasized that such raids are “absurd” and that this broad interpretation of criminal law in matters of opinion “undermines public trust in the rule of law.”
A Conservative MP says the case of a gender transition critic who was told by a co-panellist her remarks could constitute “hate” speech shows how codifying such definitions into law is creating an atmosphere that could lead to censorship.
People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier called a new Liberal federal bill that, if passed, would empower the government to ban anyone’s internet access a “digital guillotine” designed to “silence critics.”
“I want to talk to you about a number that should send a chill down your spine: Bill C-8. The Liberals are trying to set it as a cybersecurity bill. Don’t believe them. This bill is a digital guillotine,” Bernier said in a recent X video post.
Bernier said that Bill C-8, named “An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts,” would give unprecedented power to federal officials with no due process.
Canada’s privacy watchdog says he was never consulted on a federal bill that could let cabinet secretly shut down a Canadian’s internet or phone access.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne told MPs the issue “never came up” before the Trudeau government tabled Bill C-8, legislation that would give Ottawa sweeping new powers over telecommunications companies in the name of cybersecurity.
