openrightsgroup , 24 days ago to random 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/
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/
openrightsgroup , 1 month ago to random Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data. This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment. Read our briefing for more ⬇️ #dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/
Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data.
This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
Read our briefing for more ⬇️
#dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/