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Infrared temperature screening

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Immunity passports and Covid-19: an explainer

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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target?

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Reports and Analysis

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...it protects our development

You have duties toward the community within which your personality can fully develop. The law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect others and to be respected.

Key Resources

A guide for migrants and asylum rights organisations about privacy settings

This guide is for anyone concerned about their social media accounts being monitored by public authorities, but it’s especially targeted at people from minority and migrant communities who may be disproportionately affected by various forms of surveillance.

Long Read

10 threats to migrants and refugees

This article presents some of the tools and techniques deployed as part surveillance practices and data-driven immigration policies routinely leading to discriminatory treatment of peoplee and undermining peoples’ dignity, with a particular focus on the UK.

News

17th August 2020

Dear Home Secretary: Channel crossings are already inviable for asylum-seekers and human rights

22nd July 2020

New Report on “The Use of Biometric Data to Identify Terrorists: Best Practice or Risky Business?"

15th June 2020

Ethnic minorities at greater risk of oversurveillance after protests

11th June 2020

Why Amazon's temporary ban of police use of facial recognition is not enough

3rd June 2020

Data protection: a piece of the puzzle to “do no harm” in the digital age

6th April 2020

We must protect people in vulnerable situations during lockdown or quarantine

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

[UK] Priti Patel under fire as Home Office bids to target child asylum seekers

Human rights experts have accused the home secretary, Priti Patel, of ignoring legal guidance in an attempt to target child asylum seekers who cannot prove they are under 18. A letter from the Home Office, seen by the Observer, reveals that the government is putting pressure on social workers to

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Our Advocacy

PI's joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Privacy International (PI), Fundaciòn Datos Protegidos, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) and Statewatch submission highlights examples on how digital technologies deployed in the context of border enforcement and administration reproduce, reinforce, and compound racial discrimination.

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