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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"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.
Our report into the Prevent programme (UK) uncovered an FOI showing that the data of people who are referred to the programme is being shared more widely than previously known.
This includes with airports, ports and immigration services with little transparency or scrutiny.
"For too long authorities have been able to cite national security as a reason for undermining the data protection rights of people who have not been accused of a crime.
We need full transparency from authorities who have enabled this data protection disaster."
Our report reveals that the data of people who are referred to Prevent (UK) is being shared more widely than previously known, including with airports, ports and immigration services.
This can lead to many people being unfairly stopped at borders.
Our investigation into Prevent (UK) shows how the processing of personal data under the programme is neither proportionate nor necessary when the majority of referrals end with no action.
There’s especially no valid policing purpose for this when no criminal activity is involved.
The imbalance of power between individuals referred to Prevent (UK) and the State, especially the police, means that data can be retained and shared without transparency or oversight.
This puts marginalised and racialised communities at heightened risk of discriminatory surveillance.
Prevent (UK) turns safeguarding into surveillance.
Built around counter-terrorism, it conflates ‘victim’ with ‘perpetrator’. The foundation for this is a system of data sharing and retention that exempts itself from protections according to its own logic.
A catch-22 for data rights.
Read our full report, 'Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation'
And this should surprise anyone? Mental health patients are treated appallingly, mainly I think because of a lack of resources rather than deliberate neglect much of the time. Black patients have two disadvantages.