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Content type: Report

PI submission on the GPS Tracking of Migrants in the UK

Privacy International’s submissions for the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration inspection of the Home Office Satellite Tracking Service Programme The Home Office have introduced 24/7 electronic monitoring and collection of the location data of migrants via GPS ankle tags. This seismic change cannot be overstated. The use of GPS tags and intention to use location data, kept for six years after the tag is removed, in immigration decision-making goes far beyond the mere…
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Content type: News & Analysis

UK High Court rules blanket seizure of asylum seekers' phones breached Article 8 ECHR

Background Today judgment has been handed down in the landmark case of R (HM and MA and KH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department. This is a Judicial Review decision concerning the UK Home Office’s secret and blanket policy of seizing mobile phones of all migrants who arrived to the UK by small boat between April 2020 and November 2020, and extracting data from all phones. PI was a third party intervener in the case. The case revealed that migrants were searched on arrival at Tug Haven…