Pre-payment cards given to UK asylum seekers by the Home Office are collecting purchasing data with restrictive rules.
This creates 'new modes of social control' with detrimental impacts on well-being.
New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow ⬇️
#dataprotection #migrants #privacy #digitalprivacy #ukpolitics
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-prepayment-technology-socially-financially-isolating.html