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Location and Geographic Surveillance Tech

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Powerful countries encourage and enable other governments to deploy advanced surveillance capabilities without adequate safeguards.

Migrants are bearing the burden and losing agency in their migration experience: their fate is being put in the hands of systems that are feeding the surveillance and data exploitation ecosystem.

The use of data and new technologies are driving a revolution in immigration enforcement, and affected people are going to be at greater risk.

White House (Pete Souza) Maison Blanche (Pete Souza) [Public domain]

Increasingly counter-terrorism strategies and policies are decided at the international level, most notably by the UN Security Council, and are used to erode human rights, with no accountability.

Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.

Aerial surveillance can impose widespread systematic monitoring on specific individuals, groups, and populations infringing upon their right to privacy and associated freedoms, including freedoms of assembly, movement, and protest.

Light projection on UK Home Office building reading "WATCHING MIGRANTS 24/7"

This legal challenge relates to a complaint filed with the UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) against the UK Home Office's policy and practice of using GPS ankle tags to monitor migrants released on immigration bail.

Privacy International filed a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against the Home Office’s policy and practice of collecting and processing data through two algorithms used in immigration enforcement operations.