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Ban surveillance systems that can enable the suppression of organised resistance

Submitted on Monday 11th August 2025

Rejected on Monday 1st September 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

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Ban surveillance systems that can enable the suppression of organised resistance

Petition Details

Large-scale systems whose physical capabilities could, in the wrong hands, enable the mass identification of dissenters and the suppression of dissent—or prevent people from organising to remove oppressive governments—must never physically exist. If such systems already exist they must be dismantled

Additional Information

Our UK society has long solved its problems without mass surveillance and it can continue.

Laws banning uses aren’t enough. Governments change. History shows any tool of control will be misused.

Instead, such systems must be banned from physical existence to avoid the «we won’t misuse it» trap.

It includes systems able to:
–detect whereabouts (e.g. mass facial recognition)
–scan private messages
–impose digital ID
–link all online activity to verified identity
–enforce a cashless society
etc.


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