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The House of Lords are debating the new data protection and digital information bill. Currently Lord Clement-Jones is tearing into plans to water down protections for people’s personal data when it’s being transferred overseas https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/4008eeaa-16c4-42a5-bdcf-78cec311ba2f #Data #DPDI #dataprotection

Data shapes our lives in invisible ways. That’s why data protection is an essential defence from data brokers, State agencies and hackers.

But the UK #DPDIBill trades away our data rights to aid surveillance and profiteering.

📺 Watch our briefing live TONIGHT at 7pm GMT.

#dataprotection #GDPR #privacy #DPDI #HandsOffOurData #ukpolitics

https://www.youtube.com/live/0Qllerftlb8?si=PgV5UaQXZRE7vwai

How our data is managed and used has real-world impacts as automated decision-making grows.

Despite this, the UK #DPDIBill erodes our protections in favour of state and commercial interests.

Register for our online briefing taking place on 19 February at 7pm GMT.

#dataprotection #DPDI #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/briefing-on-data-protection-and-digital-information-bill/

Real-world harms happen when data gets abused, so we need an independent regulator to guarantee strong protections and offer redress when things go wrong.

That’s why we’re fighting powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that’ll weaken the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK.

Find out more.

#DPDIBill #dataprotection #DPDI #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-a-weaker-data-watchdog-impacts-you/

Mr Bates vs the Post Office reminds us how injustice can arise when computer systems get it wrong. We need stronger data rights to help people challenge digital harms that affect them. https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Post-Office-Horizon-scandal-explained-everything-you-need-to-know #privacy #dataprotection #DPDIBill #DPDI #GDPR #digitalrights

If the government has its way, we'll be vulnerable to our data being used against us and less able to do anything about it.

Here's what's wrong with the #DataGrabBill ⬇️

🦾 Take action: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

Tell them you’re doing all you can to remove data rights.

The government is gifting itself powers to check the bank accounts of anyone who claims a benefit.

And that includes the State Pension.

Or say no to welfare surveillance in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDI #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof #pensions

#GDPR has been used in employment disputes “to bridge the gaps in employment law... because these workers have no other recourse” according to Worker Info Exchange.

The #DataGrabBill will make it more difficult to contest or refuse to be subject to automated decisions.

This is in the face of warnings about the growth of AI into management by algorithm through increased employee surveillance.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/16/calls-stricter-oversight-workplace-ai-fears-staff-rights

Automated decision-making means racialised communities will experience greater discrimination from algorithmic bias.

We've seen discriminatory algorithms rejecting job applications due to foreign names or mentioning a women’s college.

The #DataGrabBill will make it more difficult to access data or contest automated decisions, meaning unfair practices could go unchallenged.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/robots-racism-algorithms-job-hiring-b1860835.html

Data protection is a "critical line of defense against government overreach and the continued weaponisation of technology against racialised and migrant communities."

Read more about the dangers of the #DataGrabBill from the Racial Justice Network.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://racialjusticenetwork.co.uk/stop-the-data-discrimination/

"AI raises the stakes... data is not only used to make decisions about you, but rather to make deeply powerful inferences about people and communities."

Beware greater automated decision-making with fewer safeguards over our data.

The fight for algorithmic justice is imperiled by the #DataGrabBill.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #humanrights #datarights #digitalrights #AI #codedbias #facialrecognition

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/11/18/unmasking-ai-and-the-fight-for-algorithmic-justice

More decisions that impact our lives will be made by automated systems without human review.

When students were downgraded by unfair AI during the pandemic, GDPR was there to challenge it. Students could rely on the right not to be subject to fully automated decision-making when the outcome impacted their futures.

The #DataGrabBill erodes that defence.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2020/08/17/we-put-a-stop-to-the-a-level-grading-algorithm/

Live #facialrecognition generates sensitive biometric data.

Where the stakes are high, such as in police deployments, thresholds for necessity and proportionality should also be high.

Indelible #biometric data shouldn’t be collected en masse.

Especially when the #DataGrabBill makes it easier for the police to reuse and share this data with terrifying consequences for our liberty.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/dpib_2_surveillance_oversight/

The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimise a explosion of biometric surveillance.

At the same time as the #DataGrabBill weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67149222

The #DataGrabBill allows public and private bodies to share data for 'national security' and 'public safety'.

Combine biased pre-crime databases with poorly regulated #facialrecognition, we'll see an unprecedented expansion in racialised #surveillance.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/young-people-are-being-criminalised-for-content/

“Exposing pupils to the level of risk associated with the use of biometric data to solve an arguably inexistent problem... should represent a primary concern.”

The #DataGrabBill will put children at risk of harm from the collection of their indelible biometric data.

🗣️ @marianods for ORG

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/facial-recognition-technology-school-ico

This #HumanRightsDay we call for an end to the digital hostile environment.

Migrants are being targeted for government surveillance, from GPS tagging to immigration numbers logged on NHS records.

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will accelerate discrimination. It must be stopped.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/

"The increasing use of biometric surveillance risks automating the inequality and discrimination already baked into the immigration services and policing."

Find out more about about the digital hostile environment from Migrants' Rights Network.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/digital-hostile-environment/

⚠️ Unregulated facial recognition produces racial injustice ⚠️

Underpinned by biased algorithms and trained by partial datasets, AI generates false matches disproportionately weighted to overpoliced communities.

The #DataGrabBill will only make it worse by further weakening regulatory oversight and increasing automated decision-making.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #humanrights #datarights #AI #facialrecognition

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/does-a-i-lead-police-to-ignore-contradictory-evidence

The #DataGrabBill ignores a critical concern for privacy: the rise of biometrics.

It leaves surveillance tech like facial recognition and CCTV open for police and local authorities to use unhindered by effective oversight or data rights.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-technology-could-soon-be-everywhere-heres-how-to-make-it-safer-205040

It was an interesting exercise thinking through the privacy issues of RFID payments and access control at festivals.

That my data privacy students are currently working on live facial recognition may have influenced that last quote!

#DAtaPrivacy #DataEthics #DPDI @openrightsgroup
@ConnectedByData https://ra.co/news/78973

“The UK government’s determination to deregulate data protection is putting the adequacy agreement with the EU in jeopardy, which is a risk that the UK economy cannot afford.”

🗣️ @marianods – ORG Legal and Policy Officer.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #EU #brexit

https://www.digit.fyi/uk-data-protection-reform-eu-adequacy-may-be-at-risk/

#GDPR has been used to challenge the use of health data and illegal profiling.

Strong data protection is essential as new ways are found to profit off of us. But the #DataGrabBill will weaken our rights for data to be used for 'research purposes'.

Keep Our NHS Public signed our open letter to stop the Bill: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/26-civil-society-groups-call-on-government-to-scrap-data-protection-and-digital-information-dpdi-bill/

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

💉 Health data reveals highly sensitive information about us.

Opening up this data to private interests with fewer safeguards for us will usher in greater discriminatory practices.

Join our campaign to stop the #DataGrabBill.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDI #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #NHS #Palantir

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

With commercial bodies like Palantir weeding their way into the NHS, the #DataGrabBill is a cynical attempt to remove hurdles for the commercial exploitation of sensitive health data.

Those hurdles being our data rights.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDI #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #NHS #Palantir

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/10/palantir-ceo-acknowledges-fdp-could-aid-nhs-data-being-sold-in-future/

The #DataGrabBill will allow big tech and data brokers to exploit NHS patients' data via a new legal ground for research that bypasses your consent.

🔴 To market drugs at higher prices

🔴 To charge more for insurance

🔴 For advertisers to prey on addictions or medical conditions

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDI #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #NHS

Health data is a huge prize for the surveillance economy.

The #DataGrabBill makes way for private medical data to be misused for ‘research purposes’ despite the clear wishes of NHS patients against profiteering when it was tried before.

Find out more.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDI #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #NHS

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/new-uk-data-laws-are-govt-revenge-against-nhs-patients/

The UK #DataGrabBill will make it easier for the State and companies to get your data, use it, share it and keep you in the dark.

It’s designed for surveillance and predatory commercial interests over our rights.

MPs waved through this attack on our data rights this week, but the fight continues as the Bill moves to the House of Lords.

✊ Join our campaign today!

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

The new welfare surveillance clause in the #DataGrabBill is unjust.

It'll remove safeguards and accountability for requesting financial data from institutions, so the DWP could bypass #dataprotection and access UK residents’ bank accounts arbitrarily.

It could lead to some of the most vulnerable people facing accusations of fraud, potentially having their benefits removed and having their lives destroyed.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/dpdi-bill-new-welfare-surveillance-proposals-target-vulnerable-people/

⚠️ The #DataGrabBill has passed its third reading.

This is a shameful disregard for the rights that underpin our freedoms in the digital age.

Data protection is our defence against State #surveillance and commercial exploitation.

The #DataGrabBill weakens the rights and safeguards contained in #GDPR.

✊The fight goes on to defend our data rights as the #DPDIBill moves to the UK House of Lords.

#HandsOffOurData #privacy #DPDI #ukpolitics

https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1683