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Saturday, 4 October 2025

False arrests surge as UK police ramp up dystopian facial recognition scans

 The United Kingdom is rapidly morphing into a biometric police state, where citizens are no longer presumed innocent until proven guilty—but rather scanned, flagged, and detained based on faulty algorithms. 

The Labour government, under the guise of "public safety," is aggressively expanding live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance nationwide, despite mounting evidence of wrongful arrests, privacy violations, and systemic misuse. 

Shaun Thompson, a 39-year-old volunteer mentor working to reduce knife crime, became the latest victim of this Orwellian nightmare when he was falsely identified as a criminal and threatened with arrest—simply for walking past a camera. 

His case, now headed to the High Court, exposes the terrifying reality of unchecked surveillance: Innocent people are being treated as suspects in their own cities.....<<<Read More>>>.....