It appears the previous Government's plans to snoop on our bank accounts are back under Starmer's Labour in the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill. - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-be-introduced-to-crack-down-on-fraud #surveillance #DWP #Benefits
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 20:10:50 JST Open Rights Group “The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) has a legal duty to investigate complaints. By omitting to act upon ORG's complaint, the ICO is taking the side of Meta’s commercial interests rather than the rights of the British public.
Meta’s plans remain on hold in Europe. We call on the ICO to respond to our complaint and explain how these proposals comply with the UK #GDPR.”
🗣️ @marianods on Meta's data scraping to train #AI.
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 22:18:58 JST Open Rights Group “LinkedIn is the latest social media company found to be processing our data without asking for consent.”
The opt-out model is “wholly inadequate to protect our rights: the public cannot be expected to monitor and chase every single online company that decides to use our data to train AI.“
Opt-in consent is a must.
🗣️ ORG’s @marianods
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 22:30:00 JST Open Rights Group What's wrong with e-Visas?
Replacing physical documents, migrants' proof of status (UK) will be checked in real-time online.
Using error-prone algorithmic guesswork, records will be live matched and rematched across multiple databases.
It's a recipe for disaster.
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 22:29:55 JST Open Rights Group Real-time checking carries the risk of potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of errors. Errors that can have life-changing consequences.
Reports collected by @the3million show cases of data errors and failures under the previous EU Settlement Scheme.
#stopEvisas #migrants #digitalrights #eVisa #ukpolitics
https://the3million.org.uk/our-proposal-fixing-digital-status
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 23:42:16 JST Open Rights Group Meta has admitted to scraping images from users in Australia to train its AI without offering an opt-out option.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
This distain for privacy is why ORG has complained to the Information Commissioner's Office to issue a legally binding decision in the UK to prevent this practice without opt-in consent.
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 18:16:12 JST Open Rights Group Up to 4 million migrants could face a repeat of the Windrush scandal as physical documents get replaced by e-Visas.
With a flawed rollout and unreliable systems, people may be unable to prove their right to be in the UK.
Sign the petition to #stopEvisas.
#migrants #digitalrights #ukpolitics
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-stop-e-visas-becoming-next-windrush-scandal
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 21:20:58 JST Open Rights Group WATCH AGAIN. Our webinar is now available to watch on demand.
Hear from our expert panel about the problems with the e-Visa scheme and the risk to migrants of removing physical proof of status.
A digital Windrush scandal must be averted. Find out how ⬇️
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 21:42:54 JST Open Rights Group We've joined 27 rights and racial justice groups to oppose the expansion of live facial recognition in the UK.
Use of this intrusive, discriminatory surveillance technology and the mass collection of biometric data must be halted.
Read more about the open letter from Big Brother Watch ⬇️
#StopFacialRecognition #surveillance #facialrecognition #ukpolitics
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 17:19:34 JST Open Rights Group Is privacy back on the chopping block in the UK? 🤔
A Digital Information and Smart Data Bill has been announced with a narrower scope around #dataprotection reform.
We warn against reintroducing elements of the disastrous #DPDIBill – from liberalising data sharing to threatening the data watchdog and the UK-EU adequacy agreement.
We need socially responsible innovation within limits... strong data protection in other words.
Read now ⬇️
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:40:41 JST Open Rights Group 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
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:40:39 JST Open Rights Group 'Predictive policing’ uses AI to identify, profile and target individuals and groups.
This disproportionately impacts marginalised communities.
Attempts to 'predict' criminal acts, or the 'risk' of criminalised acts, only compounds power imbalances.
#SafetyNotSurveillance #AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:40:38 JST Open Rights Group Today 17 civil society groups have written to the UK Home Secretary about AI in policing.
We want:
⚫ An outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance systems
⚫ Transparency, accountability, accessibility and redress for all other automated and AI systems in policing
Our open letter ⬇️
#SafetyNotSurveillance #AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:32:59 JST Open Rights Group We were pleased to see the Government reject Tony Blair's calls for ID cards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87rgj4e0rzo.amp #IDcards #DigitalRights #Privacy
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 07:40:08 JST Open Rights Group “What we’re talking about is a kind of self-negating paradox. You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop.”
@Mer__edith telling it as it is when it comes to attempts to crush encryption with client-side scanning on private messaging apps.
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 00:46:10 JST Open Rights Group ORG has launched our Manifesto to protect digital rights ✊
From URL to IRL, digital rights keep us safe from government and Big-Tech surveillance, as well as hackers and criminal threats.
Here are six pledges the next UK government should prioritise ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-rights-manifesto/
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #dataprotection #adtech
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 00:46:08 JST Open Rights Group 1. Protect our right to send secure messages.
Everyone, including children and young people, should have the right to use end-to-end encryption to ensure that our communications are safe, secure and private.
The next UK government should protect, not undermine encryption.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #e2ee
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 00:46:07 JST Open Rights Group 2. Provide migrants with digital sanctuary.
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the same data and privacy rights as everyone else so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
The next UK government should commit to ending the #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #migrants
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 00:46:05 JST Open Rights Group 3. Ban the use of pre-crime AI by the police.
Using AI to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour undermines our right to be presumed innocent and exacerbate discrimination and inequality in our criminal justice system.
The next UK government should ban dangerous uses of AI in policing.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #policing #AI #surveillance
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Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 00:46:02 JST Open Rights Group 4. Defend our right to freedom of expression online.
Freedom of expression online is being undermined by age verification, content takedowns, social media censorship and unfair copyright claims.
The next UK government should commit to protecting freedom of expression online.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics
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