The #DataGrabBill (UK) lowers the threshold for organisations to refuse a Subject Access Request. If we can't find out what information an organisation has about us, we can't challenge the decisions that affect our lives. Join our campaign. #HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics
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We welcome the Supreme Court's ruling that the UK government's Rwanda policy is UNLAWFUL. Asylum seekers to the UK are often subjected to surveillance, decisions by biased algorithms and denied data rights. We need immigration policies that respect people's human rights! #Rwanda #humanrights #refugees #ukpolitics
The #OnlineSafetyAct is now UK law 😱 This grab bag of half-baked fantasy solutions to misunderstood (or misrepresented) problems has received Royal Assent, including powers to break #encryption in messaging apps and censor content before it's even posted. Scrutiny over how Ofcom implements the law and how the government exercises its powers is critical now that the threats to #privacy and #freedomofexpression have become law. ✊ Join ORG:
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WIRED
The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
The UK government says its Online Safety Act will protect people, particularly children, on the internet. Critics say it’s ineffective against da...
Would you trust Elon Muck with your biometric data? With a history of complying with requests from authoritarian regimes, Musk's record will give human rights defenders and marginalised communities cause for alarm. Biometric data is permanent and unchangeable to a person. If it gets shared, it can mean lifelong #privacy impacts. A prospect made ever more threatening without knowing how long the data will be retained, how it's secured, or if it's ever deleted. #musk
CyberScoop
Twitter, now X, will begin collecting users' biometric data
The policy, which takes effect Sept. 29, follows intense scrutiny over Twitter's lack of account authentication and fraud on the platform.
If the increasing application of flawed facial recognition across the UK wasn't bad enough, the Home Office's attempted intimidation of the regulator in favour of a private surveillance company is truly disturbing. #privacy #surveillance #facialrecognition #ukpolitics
the Guardian
Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings
“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe. It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards." 🗣️ @npub128ky...grvv for ORG #GDPR #dataprotection #meta #ukpolitics
The Ferret
UK privacy watchdog confirms Threads app probe
The UK Information Commissioner is probing data protection concerns with the Threads social networking app from Meta, the company behind Facebook, ...
Major data breaches to the UK Electoral Commission and the Police Service of Northern Ireland highlight the crucial need for strong data protection laws. The #DPDIBill prioritises short-term commercial interests and light touch regulation over data security. If enacted, the proposed reforms could compromise the Information Commissioner’s Office and weaken data governance, creating a serious risk of increased breaches and hacks. #GDPR #dataprotection #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
UK Shaken by Major Data Breaches: Security Concerns Surge Over Data Protection Changes
Recent major data breaches, impacting crucial institutions like the Electoral Commission and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, have brought a...
"Ignorance combined with arrogance is a dangerous mix." The government is pursuing a legislative agenda that'll leave people the UK without secure messaging services. Powers to scan everyone's private messages must be removed from the Online Safety Bill. #OnlineSafetyBill #e2ee #privacy #ukpolitics
BBC News
Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK
Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.
This week the UK Electoral Commission revealed that the electoral roll was hacked two years ago. Emails, identifying information and addresses have been at the mercy of cybercriminals. ORG's @npub128ky...grvv explains why this is so concerning for people who have opted out of the open register. #cyberattack #databreach #privacy #ukpolitics
"According to UK data protection law, a data breach of such an extraordinary scale and risk should have been notified immediately, yet we've been informed about it seven months after it was identified and two years after it happened." 🗣️ @npub128ky...grvv for ORG. #ElectoralCommission #cyberattack #DataBreach #ukpolitics
Electoral Commission suffers cyber attack on electoral registers | Daily Mail Online
Electoral Commission chief executive Shaun McNally said today that the UK elections watchdog