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The majority of refugees and asylum seekers surveyed with Positive Action in Hosing said they don’t know how to clear their cookies and cache.

This stored information can contain personal data that can be susceptible to unauthorised access.

Read this guide for more ➡️ https://cybernews.com/resources/an-easy-to-use-guide-to-clear-browser-cookies/

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Data is revealing of people’s personal lives. It can used to profile and surveil in invisible ways.

With Positive Action in Housing we asked refugees and asylum seekers what they're concerned about when it came to their digital rights.

A lack of control over data came through clearly.

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The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."

We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.

Read in full here ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Tg6VoNvWEj8x3Qw2FZnxPO2DRC3gdP/view

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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 data across all sites could be seized by security services through secretive powers.

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

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

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Real-world harms result from data misuse.

We need an independent regulator to ensure strong protections and get redress when things go wrong.

But the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (UK) weakens the role of the Information Commissioner's Office. That’s why we've presented amendments.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico-must-toughen-up/

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The (UK) places duties on the Information Commissioner's Office that compete with enforcing data protection.

From promoting competition and innovation to law enforcement and national security, the Bill muddies the ICO’s function.

✅ ORG’s amendment would remove potentially counterproductive objectives.

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The (UK) gives the government powers to interfere with the Information Commissioner's Office.

This gap for political interference exposes the regulator to corporate capture and corruption.

The EU Commission has warned that this could result in the withdrawal of the UK adequacy decision with negative consquences for the UK economy.

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ORG’s amendment would:

✅ Limit the UK government’s powers to interfere with the Information Commissioner's Office through instructions and recommendations.

✅ Transfer budget responsibility and the appointment of non-executive members of the ICO to the relevant Select Committee, not government ministers.

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The (UK) gives the Information Commissioner's Office discretion to dismiss complaints unless you’ve first contacted the organisation that holds your data.

This will worsen their already poor track record of enforcement.

✅ ORG’s amendment removes this discretion from the Bill.

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MPs are now debating new powers in the Investigatory Powers Amendment Bill. The law would give the Government the power to stop companies deploying security updates that impacted on their capacity to snoop on your private messages.

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“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.

#X

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

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This report showing car insurance quotes are more expensive in areas of greater mixed ethnicity is further evidence of how algorithms can embed discrimination and carry real-life harms.

The UK will make this worse:

🔴 Changes to subject access requests will make it harder to find out what data insurance companies hold on you to challenge a decision or incorrect data.

🔴 Protections from solely automated decisions are weakened.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68349396

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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.

https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/

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Lacking in oversight and transparency, the national Prevent database operates in the shadows.

Prevent masquerades as a safeguarding measure while the police exercise security exemptions over data to limit protections in favour continued surveillance of mostly Muslim communities.

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

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The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimise a explosion of biometric surveillance.

At the same time as the weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67149222

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Power to the… government and corporations? 🤔

The removes controls over our data, exposing us to State surveillance and commercial exploitation.

⌛ Contact your MP before the Bill returns to the UK Parliament on 29 November!

➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill

The Data Grab Bill will: Make it harder to access your data by giving organisations more powers to refuse requests / Increase the role of automated decision-making / Expand exemptions for data sharing, use and reuse / Increase political interference over the ICO without oversight / Create new powers to approve international data transfers
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    ⛔ The is a 'closed-door event' ⛔

    Over 100 global groups, experts and campaigners have signed an open letter convened by ORG, @ConnectedByData and the Trades Union Congress.

    We warn that the people most affected by have been marginalised in favour of vested interests.

    Businesses who create and profit from AI systems are being allowed to uncritically set the UK’s agenda.

    We must democratise the future of AI!

    Read the now ⤵️

    https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/letter-to-rishi-sunak-ai-summit/

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    "The UK government has bungled what could have been an opportunity for real global AI leadership due to the Summit’s limited scope and invitees.

    The agenda’s focus on future, apocalyptic risks belies the fact that government bodies and institutions in the UK are already deploying AI and automated decision-making in ways that are exposing citizens to error and bias on a massive scale."

    🗣️ ORG's @abigail

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    🚨 Facial recognition in public spaces and at our borders treats us all like suspects.

    We deserve to enjoy our rights to assembly, expression, asylum and more without intrusive surveillance.

    ✊ We’ve joined 180 organisations and experts to say police, state authorities and companies MUST stop using facial recognition tech to surveil us.

    https://edri.org/our-work/global-civil-society-and-experts-statement-stop-facial-recognition-surveillance-now/

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    Would you trust Elon Musk with your biometric data?

    With a history of complying with requests from authoritarian regimes, Musk's record will give human rights defenders and marginalised communities cause for alarm.

    Biometric data is permanent and unchangeable to a person. If it gets shared, it can mean lifelong impacts.

    A prospect made ever more threatening without knowing how long the data will be retained, how it's secured, or if it's ever deleted.

    https://cyberscoop.com/twitter-x-user-biometric-data/

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    “Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.

    It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."

    🗣️ @marianods for ORG

    https://theferret.scot/uk-privacy-watchdog-threads-app-probe/

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    Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’ - Computer Weekly report on the legal opinion that states provisions in the Online Safety Bill are unlawful. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366545215/Online-Safety-Bill-screening-measures-amount-to-prior-restraint

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    Threads launches today with the promise of working with other services like Mastodon.

    Will Meta's new platform live up to the potential of a federated network, or just end up being the Threadiverse?

    If it truly federates "we can begin to hope for a real competitive environment... Users find it easier to stay in control, and companies find it harder to exploit people, as you just move somewhere else."

    Our Exec Director @jim has a look ⤵️

    https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/meta-on-the-fediverse-thread-or-opportunity/

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    The UK is a useful idiot for authoritarian regimes.

    The Online Safety Bill is set to puncture the security of messaging apps to enable mass surveillance. It’ll give permission for it to be done in other countries.

    World-leading stuff 🇬🇧

    📽️ Channel 4 News @Mer__edith

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    Detecting a person’s age with facial scanning is something “all parents should be very worried about.”

    The mass collection of “children's biometric data by private companies” with no governance structures in place isn’t online safety.

    🗣️ Dr Monica Horten for ORG https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66065600

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    🚨 The latest in UK government wishful thinking has dropped.

    Suella Braverman (Home Secretary) takes to The Telegraph with claims about encryption that don't stack up.

    There's a failure to grasp how the Online Safety Bill will harm privacy, despite repeated warnings from experts.

    ➡️ Read our response: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/online-safety-bill-suella-braverman-fails-to-understand-encryption-risk/

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