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Content type: Long Read
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary school, secondary education, and in many cases well into adulthood.What was once a matter of paper registers and filing cabinets has become a complex infrastructure of digital systems, databases, and analytics tools, managed by both the state and private companies, for AI, surveillance, and more.…
Content type: News & Analysis
As the New York Times reports the health programmes are being cut by USAID cuts, the US Government declares them as “inconsistent with the national interest or agency policy priorities.” Sadly at PI we know the kind of foreign aid that governments believe are in the national interest: surveillance funding.We’re alarmed by aid budgets being cut by governments world-wide. People will be hurt, and people will die.And while most of the news has been dominated by the US’s cuts, the UK and France…