Adam Wilkinson 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Protect our green spaces.

⚠️ WARNING: FACIAL SCANNING MANDATORY IN ALL EU VEHICLES They say it is just "for your safety" (just like age verification is just to "keep the kids safe online") but did you know as of July 7, 2024, all newly registered cars in the EU must be fitted with specific driver-monitoring systems. By 2026 and 2027, this will apply to every single new vehicle sold on the European market (heavy trucks). If you buy a new car it will have a camera looking at your face, but it is (FOR NOW) legally barred from "recognising" you or saving that video. It is there to beep at you if you fall asleep or look at your phone. Except it isn't... as it looks like they can use this data in court against you (see below). The EU's General Safety Regulation (GSR2) mandates two specific systems: DDAW (Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning): Monitors your "fatigue level" by analysing how you steer or by using cameras to watch for yawning and long eye-closures. ADDW (Advanced Driver Distraction Warning): This is the more "advanced" part for 2026/2027. It uses cameras to track your gaze. If you look away from the road (at a phone or a passenger) for more than 6 seconds (at low speeds) or 3.5 seconds (at high speeds), the car alerts you (who will it alert in the future though? What legal punishment will you be subjected to? What penalties will you recieve? Will you be able to even start your vehicle if you break rules? EU law (GDPR) supposedly governs how these "face-scanning" cameras work to ensure they don't become surveillance tools but do we REALLY believe we are not headed into a centralised system of global governance and mass surveillance (digital ID for "your convenience" is being rolled out across many countries as is facial recognition tech - it is in your supermarkets at the self service checkouts for example). They claim that laws already in place (laws can be changed in the future...remember "emergency legislation" that restricted your freedom of movement?) forbids using this technology for biometric identification (facial recognition). The car "sees" a human face to track eye movement, but it is not allowed to "know" who you are (supposedly). It is claimed a closed-loop System means your data must stay inside the car (but can be used in court remember!). The camera’s "vision" is processed in real-time by a local chip and then "immediately overwritten" (supposedly). EU cars are "generally" prohibited from sending your video or "distraction logs" to the cloud, manufacturers, or insurance companies (supposedly). The EU does not CURRENTLY mandate a "breathalyzer" or "kill switch for everyone" (kill switch will knock off your car and prevent you starting or driving it). Instead, they mandate that all new cars must have a standardised interface that makes it easy for authorities to install an alcohol interlock device. So yes, authorities CAN interfere with your vehicle and movements. Since July 2024, all new EU cars must also have an Event Data Recorder (a black box recorder). Why? If your data is yours and isn't going to be shared? They say this is purely for recording technical data (speed, braking, steering) in the seconds before a crash. This can and will be used as evidence against you. They claim these systems are anonymous and cannot be used to identify the driver or owner; its "only legal purpose" is to help investigators understand why an accident happened (will this always be the case though?) Now if you have read all of and think it is necessary then you are welcoming a lockstep loss of your privacy and rights. You are accepting being treated as a criminal before you ever have even committed a crime. You are accepting pre-emtive evidence gathering before you have ever committed a crime, and remember a crime could be anything in their eyes. They make the rules, and those who swap liberty for "security" and a surveillance state [by accepting that] will regret it. But by then it will be too late. By Susanne Delaney

Zack Polanski’s ‘Green’ Party is one of the greatest threats to Jewish people in the UK. He has offered up his Jewishness as a tool for mass laundering of antisemitism. He’s done so not because he is antisemitic, but because he is an opportunist and is tapping into a large and growing market

The antisemitic attack in Golders Green is utterly appalling. Attacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain. Thank you to Shomrim, Hatzola and the police for acting swiftly. Those responsible will be brought to justice.

Mexico passed a law requiring all 127 million cell phone users to register their SIM to a biometric government ID by June 30. Every number, every device, every call: tied to a name and a face. USA Herald is already asking when the US does this. That is not a rhetorical question.