#digitalhostileenvironment — Public Fediverse posts
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We need more transparency about when and how AI is being used in the UK asylum process.
We need to know what safeguards are in place to prevent errors and who is accountable when AI gets it wrong.
Without these vulnerable people will be harmed and these tools will be rolled out across government.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
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The digital hostile environment spreads with AI in the UK asylum process.
AI isn't neutral. It can be easily tweaked to produce preferred results.
Alongside the UK Home Office's ever-increasing hostile narratives, we ask how can migrants trust such automation?
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment #homeoffice
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The use of AI tools to clear the asylum backlog prioritises speed over accuracy.
The UK Home Office’s own evaluation reveals that 9% of AI-generated summaries were so flawed they had to be removed from the pilot.
And 23% of caseworkers lacked full confidence in the tools’ outputs.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
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The UK Home Office has a track record of using controversial tech to target migrants.
They're not even telling people that AI is being used on their asylum application.
Using these tools in critical situations without safeguarding, transparency and accountability could lead to fatal results.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
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🔔 NEXT WEEK 🔔
Hear from ORG's @sarahalsherif on how pervasive data-sharing creates a digital hostile environment.
Sign up for the 'Oversharing Migrants' Data and the Narrative of the Harm' workshop. #StandUpSpeakOut
🗓️ 15 May
🕔 5–6pm BST
💻 Onlinehttps://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/suso2025
#migrants #dataprotection #surveillance #privacy #digitalhostileenvironment
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Previous research funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research found that Meta’s profiling tools allowed the UK Home Office to build ‘patchwork profiles’ of likely refugees.
This stitches together interests, behaviours and language categories to target them with scare campaigns.
https://www.sipr.ac.uk/news/influence-policing-published/
#meta #facebook #homeoffice #dataprotection #data #privacy #gdpr #adtech #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
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The Digital Hostile Environment is expanding 🚨
The UK Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill gives broad powers to impose conditions on a person with lawful leave in the UK, including electronic monitoring and any other conditions the Home Secretary sees fit.
We demand #DigitalSanctuary for all migrants!
#DigitalHostileEnvironment #hostileenvironment #migrants #migrantdigitaljustice #immigration #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol
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This #RefugeeWeek ORG is celebrating #OurHome by calling for digital sanctuary 🧡
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the safe data and privacy rights as everyone else, so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
End the #DigitalHostileEnvironment!
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2. Provide migrants with digital sanctuary.
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the same data and privacy rights as everyone else so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
The next UK government should commit to ending the #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #migrants
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Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.
It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.
Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.
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Data can unwittingly leave a trail of our movements. This potentially exposes migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to various threats.
Read about what our survey with Positive Action in Housing found and the need for #DigitalSanctuary.
Find out more ⬇️
#digitalrights #privacy #dataprotection #DigitalHostileEnvironment
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-migrants-need-digital-sanctuary/
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Data can be weaponised for surveillance and profiling.
So how can migrants protect their privacy in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment?
Have a look at all our privacy tips, translated in English, Farsi, Arabic and Ukrainian here ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/refugee-week-digital-rights-tips/
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The UK government claimed the right to access any relevant data collected by GPS tags, referred to as ‘trail data’.
The harmful policy of GPS tagging migrants with the involvement of third-party companies such as Capita was fought by Privacy International in court.
The government was defeated for extensive breaches of privacy and data protection law.
Find out more ⬇️
#DigitalHostileEnvironment #dataprotection #privacy #migrants #ukpolitics #digitalrights #surveillance
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The dehumanising approach of the UK Home Office was stark in the decision to put GPS monitors on migrants.
This practice restricts the freedom to engage in everyday activities and can contribute to feelings of stress and anxiety.
GPS tracking devices allowed the Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data to make decisions on asylum and immigration applications.
#DigitalHostileEnvironment #dataprotection #privacy #migrants #ukpolitics #digitalrights #surveillance
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“We just do not have rights to privacy”
In our digital rights survey of refugees and asylum seekers with Positive Action in Housing, we asked people about their data being shared online.
There's a lack of trust with the government over how data is used in the UK #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#dataprotection #privacy #migrants #ukpolitics #digitalrights
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Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data.
This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
Read our briefing for more ⬇️
#dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/
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The scope for unchecked data use and sharing under the UK #DPDIBill will infringe on rights and increase existing power imbalances in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
Read our run down on how the Bill will impact migrants, refugees and asylum seekers ⬇️
#privacy #dataprotection #DPDIBill #migrants #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/migrants-data-rights-under-attack/
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The UK Home Office’s #DigitalHostileEnvironment was revealed by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office in a policy to unlawfully confiscate and extract data from migrant’s mobile phones.
The #DPDIBill will weaken the ability to challenge such abusive practices.
#privacy #dataprotection #DPDIBill #migrants #ukpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/25/home-office-illegally-seized-asylum-seekers-phones
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Surveillance measures in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment will intensify if the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill succeeds in weakening data rights.
Yet the majority of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers we surveyed with Positive Action in Housing haven’t heard about the Bill.
Here's why it's a problem 🧵
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Our survey of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with Positive Action in Housing found that most people worry about the UK government sharing their data with third-party organisations.
This is a reality experienced by migrants under right to work checks in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
Right to work checks on #migrants are run through apps run by a range of companies certified by the government as Identity Service Providers.
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Home Office Creating New 'Digital Hostile Environment' with Targeted Social Media Ads – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/07/home-office-creating-new-digital-hostile-environment-with-targeted-social-media-ads/