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Surveillance
Citizens should retain meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance, with the detailed rules not yet settled.
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DerivedFacial Recognition
Permanent or indiscriminate facial-recognition surveillance of the general population should be prohibited.
Position
Facial recognition may have narrow legitimate uses for serious criminal investigations, but public space should not become a permanently monitored biometric environment.
Policy
- Prohibit universal real-time facial tracking of citizens in ordinary public life.
- Prohibit permanent biometric cataloguing of everyone entering streets, shops, churches, demonstrations or public transport.
- Permit targeted use for serious criminal investigations subject to legal authorization, necessity, proportionality and time limits.
- Require lawful standards for biometric watchlists and correction of false identification.
- Do not routinely catalogue political or religious gatherings biometrically.
- Restrict private companies from constructing permanent biometric profiles without a strong lawful basis.
Implementation note
Implementation note
The manifesto does not name facial recognition, but expressly protects meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance.
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Communications Metadata Retention
Indiscriminate permanent retention of the communications metadata of the entire population should be rejected.
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Digital Identification
Digital identification may exist as an optional convenience, but ordinary civic participation must not require compulsory digital-only identity.
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Technology: General Doctrine
Technological development is not synonymous with human progress, and should be judged by its effects on autonomy, family, community and work.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.