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reports in the

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plans to surveil migrants through smartwatches, informed by our

@LucieCAudibert

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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. https://theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/facial-recognition-smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-foreign-offenders-in-uk…

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Organisations like

@BIDdetention

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@migrantsorg

alerted us a while ago to the roll-out of GPS ankle tags to monitor migrants released on immigration bail.

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BID's Briefing on Electronic Monitoring

Read our briefing on the Home Office's plans to implement new GPS monitoring of immigration detainees on immigration bail.

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GPS tags are a dehumanising, invasive method of control that monitors people’s precise location 24/7. The Home Office knows where they’ve been, when, every second of the day.

privacyinternational.org

Electronic monitoring using GPS tags: a tech primer

Introduction/Background Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice offender management for over 20 years, being used in the United States since the mid 1980’s and in the UK and some...

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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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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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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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Combined, they form an instrument of total surveillance and control. This is why we made submissions to the

@IndependentCI

to denounce this cruel Home Office practice.

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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

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This is, sadly, just one of the myriad callous facets of the UK #HostileEnvironment, which we and migrant rights organisations will keep condemning.

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Shining a light on the hostile environment

Last night, PI, Migrants Organise and Bail For Immigration Detainees joined forces to shine a light on the enduring plight of migrants in the UK who are subject to hardline and dehumanising Home...

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