Data protection is a "critical line of defense against government overreach and the continued weaponisation of technology against racialised and migrant communities."
Read more about the dangers of the #DataGrabBill from the Racial Justice Network.
"AI raises the stakes... data is not only used to make decisions about you, but rather to make deeply powerful inferences about people and communities."
Beware greater automated decision-making with fewer safeguards over our data.
The fight for algorithmic justice is imperiled by the #DataGrabBill.
More decisions that impact our lives will be made by automated systems without human review.
When students were downgraded by unfair AI during the pandemic, GDPR was there to challenge it. Students could rely on the right not to be subject to fully automated decision-making when the outcome impacted their futures.
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 #DataGrabBill weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.
“Exposing pupils to the level of risk associated with the use of biometric data to solve an arguably inexistent problem... should represent a primary concern.”
The #DataGrabBill will put children at risk of harm from the collection of their indelible biometric data.
"The increasing use of biometric surveillance risks automating the inequality and discrimination already baked into the immigration services and policing."
Find out more about about the digital hostile environment from Migrants' Rights Network.
The #DataGrabBill ignores a critical concern for privacy: the rise of biometrics.
It leaves surveillance tech like facial recognition and CCTV open for police and local authorities to use unhindered by effective oversight or data rights.
The words of the Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner – a post that’ll be abolished by the #DataGrabBill.
Advances in #facialrecognition tech without proper oversight and a political will to double its use in policing means innocent people will be subjected to authoritarian biometric #surveillance and discredited predictive #policing.
“The UK government’s determination to deregulate data protection is putting the adequacy agreement with the EU in jeopardy, which is a risk that the UK economy cannot afford.”
🚨 Health data will be opened up to exploitation by multi-national firms like Palantir 🚨
Contracts such as the NHS DataStore and Federated Data Platform give predatory private companies a stake in sensitive health data for profit over care.
The involvement of multi-national companies like Palantir in the NHS means our most sensitive information is primed for a #DataGrab at home and abroad.
Data that'll be used for the surveillance economy at our expense.
“This measure will give the Government the right to inspect the bank account of anyone who claims a state pension."
Broad new powers slipped into the #DataGrabBill will let the UK Department of Work and Pensions surveil the finances of benefit claimants, including child benefit and pensions.
Sneaking in a welfare surveillance clause without scrutiny is another new low for this government.
The #DataGrabBill will make it possible to process students’ personal data more easily in the UK by introducing a legitimate interest basis for ‘safeguarding interests'.
Gambling companies have used data-driven advertising to target serial gamblers.
They've been held accountable by obtaining profile data through Subject Access Requests to confirm malpractice. But the #DataGrabBill will make it harder to request our data.
Knowledge is power. We need the right to know what data is being held about us to know what's driving predatory commercial behaviour.