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… for enjoying fundamental rights and freedoms and a tool for exclusion. Individuals and groups, especially marginalized …
Content type: Case Study
… it's in fact them identification, potentially leading to exclusion. But how can the system overseeing authority tweak … of abuse over the years, including massive data leaks, exclusion from access to benefits and even issues around … even bank details were leaked alongside Aadhaar numbers. Exclusion The Indian government has also made enrolment in …
Content type: Examples
… of processes to rectify any possible mistakes or cases of exclusion. Source: …
Content type: Long Read
… However, making these digital only raises concerns about exclusion and discrimination because of the well-documented … them into the design of such initiatives. Long Read Exclusion by design: how national ID systems make social … a national digital ID to access social rights led "to mass exclusion, shutting out as many as one third of Uganda's …
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… they are eligible. This mechanism could present risks of exclusion for those who fall between the cracks of data …
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… chosen could raise questions when it comes to the risk of exclusion. The government has been relying on a data-based … leave some families within the selected boroughs at risk of exclusion, for instance if they do not appear in census … the benefit, a practice that puts people both at risk of exclusion and perpetuates the need for ID. See more examples …
Content type: Advocacy
… privacy and security liabilities, as well as tools of exclusion. To accompany the soaring demand for a right to …
Content type: Long Read
… that is efficient and cost-effective. Areas of concern Exclusion One recurring area of concern with the deployment … are not reinforced and becoming yet another factor of exclusion. If difficulties emerge and it becomes apparent …
Content type: Case Study
… MOSIP's documentation, there have been concerns regarding exclusion through language in Morocco's implementation of …
Content type: Long Read
… that come from the implementation of such systems, notably: Exclusion - People can be excluded from accessing some … , which abrases people's hands and fingertips. Similarly, exclusion is likely to happen if someone ends up with an ID … of abuse over the years including massive data leaks, exclusion from access to benefits and even issues around …
Content type: Advocacy
… profiling at scale, is therefore a great cause for concern. Exclusion: Despite the presentation of the purpose of this …
Content type: News & Analysis
… appear on the card, and also there have been huge issues of exclusion with women unable to obtain an ID card, amongst … deemed a success, it brought with it huge concerns about exclusion, as it required the presentation of the e-Tazkira …
Content type: Advocacy
… so despite the numerous risks in terms of discrimination, exclusion, and normalisation of processing and surveillance … applications and will constitute yet another tool for exclusion and discrimination with the inherent implications … vaccination schemes that do not perpetuate and reinforce exclusionary and discriminatory practices and policies which …
Content type: News & Analysis
… to information, can affect public debate and can facilitate exclusion or discrimination if it is used improperly by the …
Content type: News & Analysis
… England, Scotland and Wales will lead to discrimination and exclusion. Key points Proposed legislation would make it a … to vote. That only highlights the levels of risks of exclusion with the UK legislation. Democracy is about more …
Content type: Long Read
… to reducing the lifelong consequences of poverty and exclusion. Programmes like cash transfers – including child … of country case studies from where one can observe these exclusionary consequences. Shortcomings revealed: social … in the digitisation of India’s food security programme: the exclusion of married women of Odisha Even after local …
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… misused In addition, biometric technologies can exacerbate exclusion and reproduce racial, gender, class, and other …
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The report on disinformation by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression follows a growing trend by international bodies (including the Organization of American States and the European Commission) to assess and regulate the global phenomenon that is disinformation.
The report strongly links the spread of disinformation with the gratuitous data collection and profiling techniques utilised by the online…
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… developed to reduce poverty, social vulnerability and exclusion. Our region - the most unequal in the world - has …
Content type: News & Analysis
… to recent studies on algorithmic racism, segregation, exclusion, and surveillance in the use of these … gender. It is no wonder that, in the face of a history of exclusion and institutional violence, in a brief survey … tech does not become another tool for gender violence and exclusion. The complete research (only in Portuguese) is …
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… in a database – is to entrench identities, and often exclusion. We have seen that play out for ethnic Somali … or outright refusals to be granted one, result in economic exclusion, social isolation and missed opportunities: ID … identify beneficiaries. Naturally, this has resulted in the exclusion of vulnerable populations – an issue that is now …
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… been unable to solve existing problems of corruption and exclusion, while creating exclusions of new kinds. This article deals with one such source of exclusion that remains unaddressed by such digitisation …
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We have set out our understanding of the NFI’s current functioning here.
The National Fraud Initiative is a data-matching exercise overseen by the Cabinet Office which allows a range of public and private sector entities to access personal data, exclusively for the purposes of preventing and detecting fraud. A current government consultation suggests expanding the NFI to include four new, wide-ranging purposes:
Data-matching to assist in the prevention and detection of crime (other than…
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You can access PI’s response to the consultation here.
This explainer is based on PI’s analysis and understanding of:
The Consultation text
The Draft Code of Data Matching Practice
The Cabinet Office’s data specifications for the public and private sector
The Cabinet Office’s 2015 case-studies both for the public and private sector
The Data Protection Impact Assessment for the current iteration of the National Fraud…
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Now more than ever with a global pandemic happening, our lives are being shaped by our interaction with the digital world. Work meetings on Zoom followed by Skype with family before a quick run with your favourite running app and a Google search for your next meal: technologies and services offer us a lot and greatly improve our daily lives. But what's the real cost of these tools we rely on so much?
A lot of these companies, especially those offering free services, collect data about you. It…
Content type: Long Read
This report is available in English.
La mayoría de los documentos nacionales de identidad y demás documentos emitidos por autoridades estatales incluyen un marcador de género. Estos marcadores suelen recibir el nombre de “marcador de sexo” aunque este término no sea preciso. La presencia de dichos marcadores, especialmente en los certificados de nacimiento, promueve el énfasis de nuestra sociedad en el género como criterio de asignación de identidades, roles y responsabilidades sociales. Al…
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… that Privacy International has been working on relates to exclusion. For example, what happens to migrant groups when … systems affect historically marginalised groups ? Yet exclusion emerges not only from those who can’t get their … State and society must make a major effort to revert that exclusion, and this requires very strong public policies …