In the United Kingdom, Scotland Yard announced their trial of facial recognition technology lead to zero arrests (archived). This follows a popular "viral" story earlier this week that offered juggalo style makeup as a countermeasure against facial recognition schemes (archived).
Category Archives: UK
British Police Warn Of Nerve Agent Attack
Police in the United Kingdom are saying they believe two individuals in their 40's who were initially suspected of overdosing on recreational drugs have been exposed to a nerve agent (archived). The same nerve agent being alleged now is alleged to have been involved in another British scandal earlier this year.
British Court Places Rappers Under Musical Court Supervision For 3 Years
A court in Britain has imposed restrictions on a group of young 'Drill Rap' musicians (archived). The five young men have been ordered to inform police every time they release new music, and they have been barred from mentioning death, violence, or injury in their songs or social media postings.
Security Researcher Continuing To Receive New USG Charges For Authoring Popular Code
British researcher Martin Hutchins, who reverse engineered the WCry/WannaCry virus afflicting Windows Machines, is the target of US prosecutorial aggression as the criminal gang in Washinton DC refuses to stop issuing charges against Hutchins for unsolved malware attacks. The case against Hutchins amounts to code in assorted libraries Hutchins contributed to having become popular with malware system integrators due to its quality. Because other people profited from code Hutchins authored in a manner the USG deems criminal, they have decided to hang him.
Beyond the obvious pressure the USG is trying to exert corralling independent security researchers to subscribe to their own "irresponsible disclosure" schemes, the US prosecutorial strategy is strongly incentivizing everyone who produces code which might eventually be used in malware to make the jump and profit from exploits in the shitstack themselves.
"Visa" Payment Card Network Down In Europe and the UK
The "Visa" payment card network is down for users in the European Union and United Kingdom (archived).
Outage After English Leader Sentenced To 13 Months And British Court Orders Media Blackout – Cowardly Mainstream Publications Including Breitbart Withdrew Articles
Outrage over the arrest of English leader Tony Robinson continues after a British court sentenced the Englishman to 13 months in prison for "contempt of court" and further issued an order banning media from reporting on the arrest and sentencing (archived). In the wake of the court order articles covering Robinson's initial arrest began disappearing from publications ranging from British newspaper the Mirror to US based Breitbart media.
The court imposed restrictions on reporting the case were eventually lifted. In its reporting that the court lifted its blackout, Breitbart has failed to apologize or explain why they aided and comforted the terrorist regime in the United Kingdom (archived).
Protests After English Leader Arrested
There are reports of protests in the British capital following the arrest of English leader Tony Robinson (archived). The English leader was arrested late last week by British police for raising awareness of child sex grooming outside of a courthouse.
Brits Hassle Business Man Over "foreign cash deemed not conducive to public good"
British immigration authorities are demanding businessman Roman Abramovich "prove" the legitimacy of his wealth (archived). Abramovich has numerous business ties to the United Kingdom developed over the years including his personal ownership of the Chelsea football club. For years Abramovich has held a "Tier 1" investors visa, but is latest renewal application is being held up pending a new and invasive AML/KYC demonstration of the money's "legitimacy", in the eyes of the government ruling for the crown.
Airstrip One To Arm Rural Police As Insecurity Grips The Land Of Ingsoc
Frontline rural police in Britain are likely to be routinely armed in the near future after an effort to recruit "specialist counter terrorist firearms officers" has failed (archived). When rural British police call for armed support, the current British SOP calls for "Armed response vehicles" with 13 "specialist firearms officers" to make their way to the scene.
Acid Attacks Growing As A Cornerstone of New Ingsoc Culture
Today in the South London district of Brixton a woman was sprayed with corrosive liquid on a crowded bus and later doused nude, with water, by firefighters in the street (archived). Meanwhile on Sunday three men were injured in a single East London acid attack (archived). Unknown in England before the 21st century, corrosive liquid assaults are swiftly becoming one of the most dominant kinds of assault on the Airstrip.