If you were the victim of a serious crime, you wouldn’t expect police to treat you like the suspect and investigate your private life. But that’s happening to thousands of people reporting rape and sexual assaults. Police are demanding digital strip searches of victims’ phones and social media accounts. Victims have to choose between privacy and justice — and now, half are dropping their complaints. This needs to stop.

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Police and private companies in the UK have been quietly rolling out facial recognition surveillance cameras, taking ‘faceprints’ of millions of people — often without you knowing about it. The Met Police is planning to roll it out across the capital. This is an enormous expansion of the surveillance state — and it sets a dangerous precedent worldwide. We must stop this dangerously authoritarian surveillance now.

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