Your gateway to a free society
Article
UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout
UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout
Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org,
Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network.
The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the technology, “over concerns it could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way”.
Specifically, their lawyers argued that the current powers claimed by police governing the...
aboutLiberty Portal
Liberty Portal is your gateway for free markets and free thinking. We aggregate open-sourced content to promote and popularize important people and lessons within the liberty movement.
suggested
Apr 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
US Industrial Production Unexpectedly Drops In March (After Huge Upward Revision For Feb)
US Industrial Production Unexpectedly Drops In March (After Huge Upward Revision For Feb)
At first glance the 0.5% MoM decline in US Industrial production (considerably worse than than the 0.1% MoM rise expected - and dragging YoY growth in IP down to +0.74%) is bad news... suggesting immediate impacts from the war are being felt and sparking headlines decrying President Trump's actions.
Source: Bloomberg
However, while we agree that the decline is notable, the fact that February's data was revised drastically higher, from +0.2% to +0.7% MoM, means that over the two...
Read more
Mar 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The 'Blame Game' In Private Credit Begins
The 'Blame Game' In Private Credit Begins
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
This morning I warned (again) this wasn’t a normal market in private credit. It was a liquidity event. And today it’s becoming something else too.
According to the Financial Times, the SEC is now questioning whether Egan-Jones, a small but deeply embedded credit rating agency in private credit, can “consistently produce credit ratings with integrity.” That’s not a routine inquiry. That’s the regulator openly wondering whether one of the key cogs in the machine was ever doing its job properly in the first place....
Read more
Mar 14, 2026 / Philip Giraldi
Time to Pull the Plug On Trump and Netanyahu
The extent to which Israeli interests have come to dominate US foreign policy in the Middle East can be measured in terms of its effectiveness if one considers the seven trips to the US made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Bibi received a passionate reception from […]
Read more
support
If you like what we do and want to support us, then you are a fine humanitarian. Click the link below to find out more.
Support the liberty movement
Want to get in touch?