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@NicolaKelly
reports in the
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@ukhomeoffice
plans to surveil migrants through smartwatches, informed by our
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Nicola Kelly
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🚨Scoop: From autumn, migrants will be required to scan their faces on smartwatches up to five times a day. In May the @ukhomeoffice awarded tech co @wearebuddi a £6m contract to produce facial recognition watches, which will track location 24/7. theguardian.com/politics/2022/
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Privacy International
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In an effort to monitor even more people and reach levels of total surveillance, the Home Office now wants to roll out smartwatches also recording 24/7 location data AND requiring people to scan their faces up to 5 times a day.
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@privacyint
This is meant to be “less invasive” & “more proportionate” than GPS ankle tags. Who is the Home Office trying to fool? Facial recognition is a dangerous, discriminatory tech - it regularly misidentifies people of colour & is disproportionately used against minorities.
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@privacyint
Wearables are the last frontier in total digitalisation and surveillance of our lives, leading to inevitable human rights abuses when used by powerful institutions against vulnerable populations.
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Greg Lubel #Return 🇪🇺
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@IndependentCI
Just vote tactically for a centre-left party at the next GE. Support electoral reform asap after a Tory rout, then repeal the facist-lite policies at leisure. Bingo, fairer country (Well, we could also prosecute and tax all the Tory beneficiaries to recoup their unfair gains)