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Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.

It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.

This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.

Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.

#privacy #migrant #ukpolitics

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/migrants-stripped-of-smartphones-ahead-of-rwanda-flights/