by Mordechai Sones, interview by AFLDS South America Coordinator Keren MacíasThe Constitutional Court of Ecuador today will hear a petition by doctors’ and lawyers’ organizations and private citizens challenging Green Pass vaccine mandate restrictions declared by the South American country’s version of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), called the National Emergency Center of Operations (COE).Naming COE Legal Representative and National Director police Captain Juan Ernesto Zapata Silva as a defendant, the complaint claims that the COE requirement that the National Health Authority “issue a technical standard to require mandatory presentation of a vaccine certificate for entry to public venues to any person over 12 years of age” is unconstitutional. The complaint also challenges police control and surveillance and enforcement measures, the requirement that the National Transit Agency prevent entry of passengers without a vaccine card to the various modes of transit, and the obligation to vaccinate children from the age of 5 years.&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe class="rumble" width="100%" height="500" src="https://rumble.com/embed/vqbxgq/?pub=ogg5j" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>The complaint cites Ecuador’s constitution and international law. The constitution, approved by Ecuador’s electorate in a September 2008 constitutional referendum, is one of the first in the world to recognize the right to food.Article 281, labelled Food Sovereignty, reads: "Food Sovereignty constitutes an objective and strategic obligation from the State to guarantee its people, communities, pueblos and nationalities self-sufficiency in healthy food, culturally appropriate in a permanent form."Claiming the COVID restrictions violate constitutional norms and rights to freedom, the complaint also lists the constitutionally-protected right to equality and non-discrimination, and the right to access quality public and private goods and services.&nbsp;“The Right to personal integrity includes the prohibition of the use of genetic material and scientific experimentation that violate human rights,” say the complainants, including “the right to make free, responsible, and informed decisions about their health … the right to conscientious objection … the right to protection of personal data … the right of freedom that establishes that no person may be forced to do something prohibited or stopped from doing something not prohibited by law … the right of adolescents and young people to enjoy recreation … the right of persons with disabilities to access in an adequate manner all goods and services … and the right of everyone to dispose of goods and services of the highest quality, and to choose them freely.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="/uploads/i_Stock_532049496_6dc1841beb.jpg"></figure>Besides citing Ecuador’s constitution, the complaint lists human rights violations contained in international treaties: the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) of UNESCO, related to the autonomy of the individual to make decisions with free and informed consent, the fundamental equality of all human beings, discrimination and stigmatization, fundamental freedoms, and human dignity; the Declaration of Human Rights (1948) on equal protection before the law against discrimination and any provocation to such discrimination; Nuremberg Code (1947), in general dealing with how experiments on human beings are to be carried out, and the established limits; Declaration of Helsinki (1964), dealing with how medical research in humans is to be conducted, indicating the need for informed consent for participation in medical research.“Food and nutrition are fundamental rights called rights to a dignified life, enshrined in Article 66, Numeral 2 of our Constitution,” the complaint reads, “which only in nefarious and shameful episodes of our history (as in Nazism) have heartless individuals dared to violate, that humanity remembers with repudiation and disgust; however, this right is being violated by the national COE…“In its illegitimate resolutions of December 21, 2021 and January 3, 2022, the national COE directly and wantonly violates the right of a segment of Ecuadorian citizens to access several of these public and private services, attacking constituents with these provisions, and ignoring the fact that their actions must comply with the Constitution and the laws of our country.“The inhuman acts of experimentation on people, committed under the Nazi regime at the time of the Second World War, provided the impetus for the guideline to incorporate in treaties, conventions, and other international instruments, the prohibition of the use of genetic material and scientific experimentation, which have been correctly included in our Constitution, as one of the rights to personal integrity of citizens, considering that such practices violate human rights.“In the case at hand, it is appropriate to point out that the substances called ‘vaccines’ did not fully comply with the preclinical and clinical stages that science establishes before their release to the market, as has been admitted by the same manufacturers, as is general and worldwide knowledge, therefore, these laboratories have not been responsible for their effects, refusing in their contracts to assume compensation, which the Ecuadorian government does not assume either; however, and despite the fact that in the same vaccination card or certificate, it is indicated that the vaccine is NOT MANDATORY, the national COE, through its unconstitutional resolutions of December 21, 2021 and January 3, 2022, coerces the population to get vaccinated, suppressing the constitutional rights of those who do not want to be vaccinated.“The freedom of autonomy that every human being has, universally recognized by all International Treaties and Instruments, is reflected in our Constitution in its Article 66, Numeral 10, indicating that Ecuadorians enjoy the right to make free, responsible, and informed decisions about their health…“It is inadmissible that a committee such as the COE, through its unconstitutional resolutions of December 21, 2021 and January 3, 2022, in a bold and arbitrary way, seeks to appropriate the will of the citizen, violating their right to make their own decisions in a free, responsible and informed way, acting – without any legal power – as if it were a fascist regime that subjugates those of us who are actually part of its constituents…“The harmful resolutions of the national COE led by Captain Juan Zapata Silva, issued on December 21, 2021 and January 3, 2022, seriously injure the freedoms of citizens who, freely and sovereignly, have decided not to submit themselves to an experimental vaccine, putting these citizens in a situation of slavery, one of the most execrable and condemnable practices that can exist.”America’s Frontline Doctors (<a href="https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AFLDS</a>) South America Coordinator Keren Macías spoke to one of the plaintiffs in the case, Doctors for Truth Ecuador Founder Dr. Mauricio Quiñonez. Born in Puerto Bolivar in the province of Oro, married and a father of four, Dr. Quiñonez specializes in general surgery.&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe class="rumble" width="100%" height="500" src="https://rumble.com/embed/vqai34/?pub=4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Regarding deaths listed as COVID-caused in his country, Dr. Quiñonez says the wrong protocols were used to attend to those cases.&nbsp; “They were dismantling health in the country because they used another pathology, they instilled fear in us that we were going to die, there were deaths of people and it was not&nbsp; known if it was COVID or not and for those deaths nobody is responsible, those erroneous protocols that made health professionals and patients lose their lives; the only culprit is the WHO and all the supposed experts who implemented these protocols worldwide.”He continues: “I heard one doctor say that unvaccinated patients should pay the state health service for not having been vaccinated. That is unethical, because doctors are forgetting why they became doctors.&nbsp; The pharmaceutical company is the one that has co-opted the Hippocratic oath that doctors made, saying evidence-based medicine, but the truth is that whoever dominates the evidence is the one who dominates medicine.&nbsp; With so much misinformation we have to help humanity with alternative treatments because what we’re seeking is to save them.”Dr. Quiñonez says that the issue is to have common sense, not who is right. He does not consider himself anti-vaccine: “The fact is they are subjecting society to a gene experiment, they must be honest and provide informed consent so that each individual who is vaccinated knows he is part of an experiment, it is unknown what products the experimental substance has, the pharmaceutical company is not responsible for the adverse effects that may exist, neither are governments, and neither is the Health Ministry, but if a person doesn’t inject the substance, he’s called irresponsible. So that situation leads to you wanting people to be informed on both sides, these vaccines have been experimented with since 2005 but all the trials have failed.”&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe class="rumble" width="100%" height="500" src="https://rumble.com/embed/vqbwtd/?pub=ogg5j" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Dr. Mauricio Quiñonez joins allied citizen’s organizations on Thursdays, when they go out to the streets of the main artery of the city of Guayaquil.&nbsp; They already have some congregations and social groups that have joined along with the marches and demands through the social networks. “These so-called vaccines are a Trojan horse,” Dr. Quiñonez says. “First, they force you to vaccinate, then, later they will demand control over where we go, with whom we go, and what to decide in our lives. They want total control.”Regarding the omicron variant, Dr. Quiñonez says: “The Spanish government and the Argentine government say they have not sequenced the natural virus, but this information is dismissed by doctors because they say it’s fake news.“The vast majority know it’s an experiment, and the ones who are emitting the variants are those who received the gene therapy. This is already recognized by many people who do the science, and the most serious thing is that they are injecting our children and the WHO itself doesn’t recommend that.”“In Spain, the government was questioned and sued for deficient handling of the pandemic. This doesn’t come to light in the mainstream media. The use of masks, social distancing, lockdowns - in the middle of the 21st century we have to lock up the healthy - the sick must be locked up. This generated suicides, deaths due to lack of medical attention because if they didn’t have COVID they weren’t attended. These issues are not treated openly. The pandemic was handled with terror and not with technique, the number of deaths seen in Ecuador is doubtful because autopsies weren’t performed, and this we must demand of the doctors, because to learn we must perform autopsies of those who die.”In closing, Dr. Quiñonez says the pandemic ends when we turn off the TV, the pandemic ends when we lose our fear: “The pandemic ends when we take responsibility for our own health. Remember that the government does not want us healthy, but sick, because that is its business, and if it manages to make us mentally ill, it creates even more business because they already have us paranoid.&nbsp;“Society is self-destructing, we are destroying the most valuable thing we can make on this planet - future generations! When subjected to these inoculations, parents will see the results as the child develops, and when he presents problems, I hope to be there so I can lend you a hand.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="/uploads/i_Stock_1197028991_b35d90a504.jpg"></figure>

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<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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