24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.
It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
#migrants #ukpolitics #surveillance #privacy #GPS #GDPR
https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/
So when #Starmer said the other day that he thought that the police shouldn't waste their time arresting people who incite violence against trans people on social media and should concentrate on going after real crime instead, was this the sort of thing he had in mind?
"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” Officer A continued. “It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore.”
#PalestineAction #Protests #Justice #UKPolitics
Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban | Novara Media
https://novaramedia.com/2025/09/04/police-officers-admit-they-feel-ashamed-enforcing-mad-palestine-action-ban/?mc_cid=ed2505f3cd&mc_eid=17822c0d3a
The foundational belief of the right wing is this:
I am rich because of my hard work, not just because I was born rich. You are poor because you are lazy, not just because you were born poor.
#ukpolitics #tory #uspol #politics
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.
Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.
Tory offer to young people:
1. We’ll take away your smartphones;
2. Compulsory maths exams until 18; and
3. “Compulsory voluntary” service thereafter.
They just need:
4. You’re not going out looking like that; and
5. Don’t use that tone of voice with me. #UKPolitics
#FarRight #Immigration #Migration #GE2024 #UKPolitics
🚨*BREAKING NEWS*🚨
Far Right thug & leader of the anti-foreigner #EDL, Tommy Robinson arrested at an extremist event in #Canada on suspected immigration offences!
Plain-clothes police detained him under an outstanding immigration warrant.
The Far Right activist was due to speak at several other events in Canada. He's been ordered to stay in the country & hand in his passport.
Oh dear... Oh well 🤷🏾♂️
https://news.sky.com/story/tommy-robinson-arrested-over-immigration-offence-in-canada-13158512
Predictive policing is UNJUST.
It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.
With 16 other civil society groups, we say:
BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.
Read our open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf
The UK e-Visa scheme could create another Windrush scandal.
By the end of 2024, proof of the right to be in the UK will be fully digitalised.
Up to 4 million migrants will be at risk of not being able to prove their status offline.
Tell your MP #stopEvisas ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-stop-e-visas-becoming-next-windrush-scandal
“We’re seeing teens being prevented from accessing content about sexual health, politics and news.
If adults want to see this content, they are forced to prove how old they are with unregulated age verification companies.
Meanwhile, small websites are closing down because they are worried about being fined because of these onerous demands.”
🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #freedomofexpression #censorship #ukpolitics
Under the NI Protocol and under the Good Friday Agreement the ‘borders’ on the entire island of Ireland are at ports and airports. This should also apply to these new ETA. NI gets a lot of tourism revenue from coach and cruise liners who stop here for just a couple of days to visit key attractions. Then there are people who come to visit family and research their history and stay for varying lengths of time doing this. There are also international students attending University in Northern Ireland, and limiting them to the six counties of NI inhibits their education as well as their ability to attend events around the island. These ETA’s should only apply at the borders of the entire island. The economic damage implementation of these will do to the six counties is frightening to consider. Both the Irish and UK governments should press to change the planned implementation asap. #Think32 #NIPolitics #Ireland #UKPolitics #GFA
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/tourism-in-northern-ireland-risks-210m-loss-a-year-as-new-eta-comes-into-force/a720404297.html
We can’t explicitly petition for the Trump invitation for a Royal Visit to be cancelled, but we can give MPs an opportunity to bring this up in debate. Please sign and share this petition.
Edit: thanks to all those who have boosted this.
#UKPolitics #Trump
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/724217
🚨 Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 🔐
Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.
This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!
⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.
Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText 💬
ACT NOW ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
#e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #ofcom #security #cybersecurity #whatsapp #signal
Remember, UK Technology Minister Peter Kyle thinks we're all 'peados'
This is the state of British politics right now, the state of UKGOV
💡 Encryption IS online safety 💡
Keeping data secure is key when hackers are skilled at unpicking accounts.
So why does the UK government want to make us unsafe by ordering a backdoor to Apple encrypted services?
✍️ Sign to save encryption this #SaferInternetDay.
#encryption #privacy #Apple #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights #e2ee
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/
Outlook not so good 🎱
Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.
Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.
Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/
#policing #AI #precrime #justice #criminal #police #ukpol #ukpolitics #surveillance
NEW: ORG investigation reveals Meta enables vulnerable people to be targeted with disinformation and fraudulent ads.
With ads offering fake identity documents still running on Facebook, Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis.
Read more about our report on Meta's surveillance capitalism advertising model ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-how-meta-is-monetising-the-migrant-crisis/
#meta #facebook #dataprotection #adtech #privacy #gdpr #data #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol
Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!
Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.
We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #NetPlurality #ukpol #ukpolitics #wikipedia #freedomofexpression
THOUSANDS!
There are more of us than there are of them!
https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/thousands-rally-london-emergency-trans-31473770
#London #LGBTQIA #Trans #UKPOL #UKpolitics #TerfIsland #TransRights
"KPMG’s contract raises a real question: if [Palantir’s] software is so good, why does the government need to give £8 million of taxpayers’ money to a management consultancy to encourage NHS hospitals to use it?”
Another set of Streeting's dodgy deals.
#NHS #KPMG #UKPolitics #Palantir
UK government withholding details of Palantir contract
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-government-withholding-details
This week's net.wars, "Negative externalities", watches Texas police use license plate data to search for a woman they think might have self-managed an abortion; pushes back on a report that suggests a publicly funded NHS period-tracking app is a better idea; and notes the passage of the UK's new data bill weakening citizens' rights over their data: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/13/negative-externalities/ #NetWars #UKpolitics #Abortion #DataBill #Privacy
The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group starts tomorrow.
This is a dangerous escalation in the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK.
It’ll increase surveillance, particularly under the Prevent Duty, and censorship under the Online Safety Act.
Read our blog ⬇️
#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech
Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.
The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.
That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.
https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky
