Notices by Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org), page 3

ORG and Positive Action in Housing surveyed migrants, refugees and asylum seekers about digital rights. The results show a distrust over how the government handles their data.

When people migrate, their data migrates with them. Data that can expose people to the threats they were escaping.

Migrants should enjoy the same human rights as everyone else, including the protections of digital rights. This is #DigitalSanctuary ⬇️

#humanrights #privacy #dataprotection

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-migrants-need-digital-sanctuary/

Open Rights Group fights to protect digital rights in the UK 🦾

Becoming a member helps us to campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to our human rights.

Join the movement today ⬇️

#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/

Free CCTV! What's the catch?

The UK Home Office has extended a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment through the US-owned Esotec Ltd.

We're highlighting the risk that cloud stored #CCTV data across all sites could be seized by security services through secretive #surveillance powers.

This would happen without the knowledge of people running or attending places of worship, community centres or faith schools.

#ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/home-office-surveillance-cctv/

The Investigatory Powers Amendment Bill returns to the UK Parliament today.

The Bill could force tech companies to apply to the Home Office before introducing updates to improve the security and privacy of their products.

This will extend the government’s powers for mass surveillance and undermines safeguards and restrictions that ensure our online interactions are safe and secure.

These powers must be dropped.

#surveillance #InvestigatoryPowersBill #IPAB #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/investigatory-powers-amendment-bill-will-threaten-peoples-access-to-security-updates-and-privacy-friendly-apps/

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

So that’s socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion added to the drag net of thought that is Prevent (UK).

Freedom of expression shouldn’t be ring-fenced by the governing party’s preferred system of reality, but a means of debating important issues.

#Prevent #PreventDuty #freedomofexpression #freespeech #censorship #ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/socialism-anti-fascism-anti-abortion-prevent-list-terrorism-warning-signs

“It’s extremely concerning that X has rolled out a new feature that has serious implications for users privacy and security quietly, without making users aware of the changes.

Profit is the motivating factor over user safety and security.”

🗣️ ORG's Abby Burke on the new audio and video calling feature that can reveal users' IP addresses.

Introduced to all users and automatically enabled, it shows a reckless disregard for safety.

#privacy #X #Twitter #Musk #ElonMusk

https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/x-feature-leak-location-2938704

Claims of police covert surveillance on journalists go before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (UK) this week.

ORG joins Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International UK, Index on Censorship and Reporters Without Borders UK to support Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey in the fight for press freedom.

A free press is essential for an open and functioning democracy and the police must be held accountable for any misuse of powers.

#surveillance #journalism

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-accountability-for-covert-surveillance-of-journalists/

The majority of Prevent referrals don’t need any action.

Yet data is kept for at least 6 years, profiling young people as pre-criminals for continued surveillance.

We call for a ban on retaining data when the threshold for intervention isn’t met.

➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/

#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #DataProtection #ukpolitics

🚨 REVEALED 🚨

Data of people referred to Prevent in the UK is being retained and can be shared widely, potentially even if no action is taken.

A new report by ORG exposes how data is used to profile mainly young people for discriminatory surveillance.

Read now ⬇️

#prevent #policing #dataprotection #surveillance

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/

The world is becoming increasingly hostile for LGBTQ+ rights.

For #LGBTQHistoryMonth (UK) we're highlighting @eff's round-up of digital rights for LGBTQ+ people globally.

We need an Internet that can give safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community to find strength together.

#LGBTQ #privacy #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/digital-rights-lgbtq-people-2023-review

The Internet can offer space for support and expression.

The key for marginalised communities is privacy – the reassurance against being outed, tracked or put in danger at home and overseas.

For #LGBTQHistoryMonth we’re revisiting the pride in privacy.

#privacy #LGBTQ

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/putting-pride-in-privacy/

The Gangs Matrix is finally being disbanded after years of criticism.

BUT the discriminatory profiling of racialised communities is unlikely to end as the institutionally racist Met Police rebrands the database as the Violence Harm Assessment.

It's data discrimination by another name.

#policing #precrime #ukpolitics

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-gangs-matrix-black-londoners-violence-harm-assessment-sadiq-khan-b1138828.html

🚨 Data protection in the UK is changing 🚨

The #DPDIBill is taking a sledgehammer to our data rights. But we're here to tell you what's going on and what you can do.

REGISTER NOW for our online briefing.

🗓️ 19 February 2024, 7pm
💻 Zoom

#DataProtection #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/briefing-on-data-protection-and-digital-information-bill/

Significant privacy-weakening changes to the UK’s surveillance regime are being rushed through in the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill.

This is despite ongoing litigation over existing powers that enable massive, suspicionless surveillance.

Read the joint briefing from ORG, Big Brother Watch, Internet Society, Liberty, Privacy International and Rights & Security International.

#privacy #surveillance #investigatorypowers #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-briefing-on-the-investigatory-powers-amendment-bill/

If the government has its way, we'll be vulnerable to our data being used against us and less able to do anything about it.

Here's what's wrong with the #DataGrabBill ⬇️

🦾 Take action: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

The enemy is within 🕵️♂️

An authoritarian government grants itself powers to spy on the bank accounts of all benefit claimants. Even the pensioners.

A gripping abuse of power in a Parliament near you NOW.

Don’t miss your chance to stop it.

➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #parody

There are 12.6 million people on the State Pension... suspicious.

Or so the government thinks. That's why they're seizing welfare surveillance powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Whoever claims a benefit, including the State Pension, could have their bank account frisked.

➡️ Say no: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof

Move fast and break rights.

That’s what you get with powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Welfare surveillance is an exciting opportunity to spy on the bank accounts of benefit claimants, including the State Pension.

Tell the government: Rethink. Reverse. Redo.

➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof

🚨 WE WON AGAIN 🚨

The Court of Appeal has confirmed the Immigration Exception is UNLAWFUL in the case brought by ORG and @the3million to defend migrants' access to their data.

The UK Home Office can't sidestep Parliament when using data to profile migrants.

#dataprotection #migrants #privacy #ukpolitics #gdpr

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-and-the-3million-win-in-court-again/