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Stop Spying on Asylum Seekers!

Take action with us and write to Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary, to demand that the Home Office stops spying on asylum seekers through their 'Aspen Card' debit payment card.
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Migration Surveillance Regime

The UK’s Privatised Migration Surveillance Regime: A Rough Guide for Civil Society

Privacy International has released a guide to how UK authorities track and monitor immigrants and the companies which profit.
 

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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.

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To make sure your rights are respected, there must be an order that can protect them.

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News

10th February 2021

The Hostile Environment is incompatible with public health: PI joins the Vaccine For All campaign

26th August 2020

UN experts report highlights role of private military and security companies in immigration management

17th August 2020

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

2nd April 2020

The EU needs to provide assistance to migrants affected by Covid-19. But their latest proposal does nothing of the kind.

18th September 2019

New Report Underlines the EU’s Strategy in the War on Migration: Border Externalisation

24th May 2019

ICE is Paying Millions to Surveillance Company to Spy on People’s Communications

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[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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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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