This week we held an online briefing about our report, 'Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation.'
Hear more about the UK Prevent programme and its dangers from Sara Chitseko (ORG), Dr Layla Aitlhadj (PreventWatch), Ilyas Nagdee (Amnesty International UK and Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly (The University of Warwick).
Under the pretense of safeguarding, the programme harvests and retains people's data, mostly children, even when no action is taken.
We need to stop Prevent before it becomes a global problem.
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“Despite the lack of utility to state security, [Prevent] referrals – and their storage, retention and sharing – can have disruptive and lasting impacts on individuals, including children as young as 6-years-old.”
If you’re referred to Prevent, your data rights are made difficult to enforce.
The right to erasure is weakened by a lack of transparency about data sharing between multiple databases and national security exemptions used by counter-terrorism police.
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Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs
A document from Prevent, the official scheme to stop radicalisation, includes believing in socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion in a list of potential signs of ideologies leading to terrorism.
It comes as the Conservative government considers widening what it will consider to be extremism.
So watch out folks - you’ll be on a list somewhere.
Unity is Division when it comes to the Sunak's speech on extremism last week (UK).
In all the sound and fury, our digital rights are put at risk – from free speech online to redoubling support for Prevent and the hostile environment for migrants.
"The overwhelming majority of people subject to Prevent referrals did not meet the threshold for a de-radicalisation intervention, yet their data is being retained for at least six years."
ORG's report raises serious concerns about the Prevent programme (UK).
Our report into widespread data misuse under the Prevent programme comes as referrals have spiked following the Israel/Gaza conflict.
Students should have safe spaces to process the world around them without fearing it’ll mark them for life. Prevent is a flawed programme that undermines freedom of expression and abuses data rights.
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.