The watching has gone too far. Cameras on every corner. Scans you never agreed to. Images of ordinary people, kept long after they should have been deleted. Bit by bit, Victoria is becoming a place where the government watches you far more closely than it serves you.

This is not about letting dangerous drivers off the hook. It is not about protecting anyone who breaks the law. It is about a simple line every Victorian understands: the state works for you, not the other way round. When surveillance grows and oversight shrinks, that line gets crossed.

The proof is already on the record. The Auditor-General found the State and its contractor held camera images longer than the rules allowed. Pictures of everyday people, kept past the deadline, by the very system that is meant to follow the law. If the government cannot follow its own rules on your data, it has no business collecting more of it.

The demand is simple. Get out of our lives.

I will fight to stop the slide into mass surveillance in Victoria. Cap the cameras. Delete the images. Keep facial recognition off our streets unless Parliament votes for it in the open. Treat your privacy as something worth protecting, not something to quietly take.

Here is what that means in practice:

• Cap and publicly map every speed, red-light and phone camera in Victoria, and publish the revenue each one brings in.
• Delete every non-offence image on the statutory clock, no exceptions, after the Auditor-General already caught the State keeping pictures too long.
• No live facial recognition on Victorian streets, protests or public transport without a specific Act of Parliament — not a “trial” that quietly becomes the system.
• No VCAT order used to unmask ordinary political speech online by dressing it up as “vilification”.
• Workplace and public biometric scans only where there is no less intrusive option, and always with a fixed destruction date.

These are not radical ideas. They are the basics of a free state: you are watched when there is a real reason, not by default, and the government answers for every image it keeps.

A camera should catch wrongdoing. It should not catalogue your life. Your face, your movements and your private speech belong to you.

Sign the petition. Tell the government to get out of our lives.

Add your name  to cap the cameras, delete the images, and keep facial recognition off our streets without a proper vote in Parliament. Then share it with a workmate, a neighbour or a family member who is tired of being watched.