Tell #UK Government: Protect #VPN use in the UK - Open Rights Group

VPNs help people to stay #private and #safe #online. However, the Government, wants to force us to verify our age when we buy a VPN effectively deterring many people from using them.

Sign the #petition to protect the use of VPNs, so that people can stay safe and #secure online.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

#authoritarianism #ToxicLabour #BigBrother #security #digital #surveillance

Tell the Government: Protect VPN use in the UK

Take action! Protect VPN use in the UK VPNs help people to stay private and safe online. Young people use them to avoid harassment, or protect location data. Companies use them to make sure remote log-in to their networks are secure. Journalists, campaigners and whistle blowers use them to protect their work and themselves. But the Government wants to force people to verify their age when they buy a VPN. This will deter people from using VPNs to stay safe and secure online. Why are the government proposing restrictions to accessing VPNs?

Open Rights Group

Keir #Starmer buys personalised cufflinks from Donald Trump for his son

The Prime Minister purchased the gift, which would otherwise have been held by Downing Street, for his teenage son, it is understood.

Details released by the Cabinet Office show #Starmer received the #cufflinks along with a personalised necklace and a golf club from the president, while his wife was given a pair of cowboy boots.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25863140.keir-starmer-buys-donald-trump-personalised-cufflinks-son/

#WankersOfTheWorld #ToxicLabour #KierStalin #UK #KissAss

Keir Starmer buys personalised cufflinks from Donald Trump for his son

KEIR Starmer has paid to keep a personalised pair of cufflinks given to him by Donald Trump during the US president’s state visit last year.

The National

Scrap #NHS #hospital parking charges NOW!

When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with #fees just to #park their cars. And these charges are going up!

The Government says it wants to help the British people through tough times. Well, ministers have a chance to show they mean it - by scrapping these charges now.

https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Scrap-hospital-parking-charges-now!?utm_source=Mastodon_Fediverse

#ToxicLabour #SaveOurNHS #parking

#PalestineAction saga shows #dystopian #doublethink now Labour policy

It’s cliché to bring up #Orwell’s #1984 in reference to govts

In latest twist of #Labour’s #proscription of #Palestine Action as a terror group, there is 1 concept it introduced that is more than fiction: doublethink is now UK Govt policy

High Court ruled Home Secretary made “significant” error in proscribing Palestine Action; , The move is “disproportionate” & unlawful

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25854074.palestine-action-saga-shows-dystopian-doublethink-now-labour-policy/

#ToxicLabour #Starmer

Stop scanning us! #FacialRecognition

Home Secretary Mahmood, revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”

Your #passport photo now being searched by police, even if you have done nothing wrong

#Driving licence photos are next

If we don’t set clear limits now, our rights to #privacy, #FreeSpeech, #protest & access to information are at risk

Sign:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition

#UK #ToxicLabour #authoritarian #BigBrother #Orwellian

Stop scanning us all with facial recognition

The government is about to unleash the “largest ever” roll out of live facial recognition surveillance. At the same time, shops across the UK are wiring up facial recognition cameras to their doorways and creating secret watchlists of their customers. Facial recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy. Unlike CCTV, facial recognition doesn’t just record what you do, your face becomes a barcode in the same way as your...

38 Degrees

Labour dodging security questions on #Scottish firm #Russian gas #ships

#SNP MP Chris Law tabled a parliamentary question asking whether the Foreign Office has assessed whether #UK-linked companies or #vessels, including Arc7 ice-class #LNG carriers operated or managed by #Seapeak, are contributing to LNG exports connected to Russian state or security agency activities at the #Arctic-based #Yamal LNG project.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25832397.labour-dodging-security-questions-scottish-firm-russian-gas-ships/

#ToxicLabour #corruption #DemocracyNOW #Scotland

Labour 'dodging security questions' on Scottish firm Russian gas ships

THE Labour Government has been blasted for dodging a question about whether a Scottish shipping firm transporting Russian gas could be using ships…

The National

Stop Replacing Our Doctors!

Physician/anaesthesia assistants are employed more & more, many working beyond their scope. #Patients have #died due to #PAs working above their #competencies

Trusts still advertising for PAs/AAs when role requires a doctor, many of whom face #unemployment

Patients are confused by various ‘consultants’ who are NOT #medically qualified. They think they’re seeing a #doctor

This should NOT be future of #OurNHS!

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/dhsc-stop-replacing-our-doctors-implement-the-leng-review?utm_source=mastodon

#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour

DHSC. Stop Replacing Our Doctors! Implement the Leng Review!

These professionals are being employed more and more, many working beyond their scope, eg. in GP, seeing undifferentiated patients (against the Leng recommendations). Patients have died due to PAs working above their competencies.  Trusts are still advertising for PAs/AAs when the role should be taken by a doctor, many of whom face unemployment. Patients are confused by these various 'consultants' who are not medically qualified. They think they're seeing a doctor. Doctors are being...

38 Degrees

Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir

In 2023 the Govt handed £330m #NHS data contract to #Palantir – spy-tech firm with links to #WarCrimes in #Gaza, mass deportations in #US and a founder who thinks the NHS makes people sick

This software is rolling out across #England. But Palantir can’t be trusted with our health. We’re fighting back and demanding that #OurNHS stops using Palantir’s #toxic tech.

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

#corruption #privacy #ToxicLabour #USAggression #USThreats

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

No to Palantir

Number of people in very deep poverty in UK hits record high

Hardship in #UK has worsened, with about 6.8 million people living in "very deep #poverty" — highest level in more than 30 years — a #charity said on Tuesday

Very deep poverty is defined as earning less than 40% of the UK median household #income after #rent. For a couple with two children, this amounts to £16,400 (€18,900) per year or less.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/27/number-of-people-in-very-deep-poverty-in-uk-hits-record-high-research-shows

#austerity #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #CapitalismFail #UnitedKingdom

Record number of people in UK live in 'very deep poverty', study shows

About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns.

euronews

Scrap #DigitalID cards

#UK Government plan for digital ID cards is £1.8 billion white elephant

It is little more than an echo of the failed Tony Blair ID card scheme, now with an expensive digital element bolted on

We rejected ID cards then and we reject them now.

Despite the government’s partial U-turn on some compulsory elements of the scheme, the huge cost remains – alongside many other problems.

https://r.ippl.es/digital-id/

#security #privacy #BigData #ToxicLabour #KierStalin #ID #Orwellian

Petition: Scrap digital ID cards

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