#handsoffourdata — Public Fediverse posts

The live stream of our briefing on the Data use and Access Bill is now live on You Tube at - https://youtube.com/live/EHIXGz9KGzM #HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DUABill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

The #DPDIBill (UK) must not be rushed through in the last days of this Parliament.

This Bill will impact privacy rights of everyone in the UK and parliamentarians should have sufficient time to scrutinise it.

Tell your MP to block the Bill.

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

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill

🚫 Stop welfare surveillance 🚫

Today ORG joined Big Brother Watch, 38degrees, Organise and other groups to deliver a 270,000+ strong petition to 10 Downing Street.

We say NO to powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that’ll let the UK government spy on the bank accounts of ANY benefit claimant.

#DPDIBill #dataprotection #GDPR #surveillance #privacy #welfaresurveillance #HandsOffOurData #ukpolitics

The #DPDIBill is a reckless gamble with the UK economy by putting at risk the EU adequacy agreement. Is it worth it?

Tell your MP (UK) that they need to stop the Bill in its tracks.

#HandsOffOurData #EU #dataprotection #data #privacy #ukpolitics #DPDIBill #GDPR

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill

Over 1.8K supporters have backed our ongoing campaign to stop the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, aka the #DataGrabBill.

"The proposed #DPDIBill appears to be moving towards deregulating vital safeguards that were painstakingly established to secure individuals’ data.”

🗣️ @marianods ORG Legal and Policy Officer.

Join the campaign now ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #HandsOffOurData #DataProtection

🏷️ It’s a Privacy Fash Sale 🏷️

And everything must go!

🟡 Rights: SLASHED.
🟡 Parliamentary scrutiny: SLASHED.

The government is offering welfare surveillance to every benefit claimant, whether you like it or not!

Say no, while you still have a chance: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #pensions

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

The government will have "the right to inspect the bank account of anyone who claims a state pension."

Welfare surveillance powers slipped into the Data Protection and Digital Information are so broadly drawn that they'll let the Department for Work and Pensions surveil the finances of all benefit claimants, including Child Benefit and the State Pension.

https://www.independent.co.uk/money/new-data-powers-could-allow-dwp-to-snoop-on-pensioners-bank-accounts-b2455706.html

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics

The enemy is within 🕵️‍♂️

An authoritarian government grants itself powers to spy on the bank accounts of all benefit claimants. Even the pensioners.

A gripping abuse of power in a Parliament near you NOW.

Don’t miss your chance to stop it.

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #parody

There are 12.6 million people on the State Pension... suspicious.

Or so the government thinks. That's why they're seizing welfare surveillance powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Whoever claims a benefit, including the State Pension, could have their bank account frisked.

➡️ Say no: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof

Laws that protect our personal data from abuse are being dissolved.

With the government sneaking in welfare surveillance powers to grab the data of people claiming benefits, our embattled right to privacy needs defending.

ACT NOW TO STOP THE #DPDIBILL ⬇️

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics

State Pensions. You pay in all your life to claim this benefit.

But where one hand gives, the other takes away your rights.

Welfare surveillance powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill let the government spy on the financial details of benefit claimants.

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof

⚠️ Welfare surveillance has been shoved into the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill ⚠️

The Department for Work and Pensions will have powers to force banks to hand over financial data belonging to benefit claimants.

This data could be misinterpreted and benefit sanctions imposed incorrectly.

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is a scandal in the making.

New #WelfareSurveillance powers could lead to the most vulnerable people wrongly facing accusations of fraud or having benefits removed unjustly.

This attack on privacy will impact people living with a disability, carers, families with children and people on the State Pension.

Find out more ⬇️

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics

Move fast and break rights.

That’s what you get with powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Welfare surveillance is an exciting opportunity to spy on the bank accounts of benefit claimants, including the State Pension.

Tell the government: Rethink. Reverse. Redo.

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

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #WelfareSurveillance #ukpolitics #spoof

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill “is removing or watering down existing legal safeguards that apply to automated decision-making and AI, thus depriving Regulators of the tools they need to intervene when AI goes wrong."

🗣️ @marianods for ORG.

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65842385

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

In combination with weakened protections against faulty automated decision-making and curtailed rights to access our data, welfare surveillance powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill are an injustice waiting to happen.

✊ Join our campaign today.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

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

As AI is trained on data, any inaccurate data means automated systems will continue to make mistakes and biases become embedded.

As the Department for Work and Pensions isn't being transparent over its automated systems while expanding its use, there are real concerns of injustice.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/11/use-of-artificial-intelligence-widened-to-assess-universal-credit-applications-and-tackle

If you don’t know what data is being held about you, it’s harder to challenge decisions or correct mistakes that are driving unjust outcomes.

But even if we can get access, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill lets organisations refuse requests to erase or correct data if they lack resources to do so.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

While we can appeal automated decisions, it’s of little use without access or resources to scrutinise and challenge how an AI system works.

This is made even worse by changes in the #DPDIBill that make it easier for organisations to refuse to comply with Subject Access Requests.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill weakens protections against solely automated decisions that have life-changing or significant impacts.

This will increase the risk of harms.

Indeed the DWP is already being criticised for its use of AI, despite warnings of algorithmic bias.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/23/uk-risks-scandal-over-bias-in-ai-tools-in-use-across-public-sector

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

The new welfare surveillance powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill sow the seeds of a similar benefits scandal.

The likelihood is compounded by other rights-busting measures in the #DPDIBill:

🔴 Weaker controls on automated decision-making.

🔴 Limits on our ability to find out what data an organisation holds about us.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

Welfare surveillance has been done before.

It didn't end well.

The Netherlands benefits scandal saw thousands being unjustly accused of fraud and having their benefits incorrectly withdrawn after errors in data sharing and automated decision-making.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/dutch-government-faces-collapse-over-child-benefits-scandal

Welfare surveillance powers have been smuggled into the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

The Department for Work and Pensions will be able to access the financial information of any benefit claimant – from Universal Credit to Child Benefit and the State Pension.

Here's why it's an injustice waiting to happen ⬇️

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #WelfareSurveillance #pensions

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/government-powers-overdrawn/

For the limited time of the rest of your life, the State Pension comes privacy-free!

So relax safe in the knowledge that the government can spy on your bank account.

Say yes to welfare surveillance!

Or don’t. It makes no difference.

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

#DPDIBill #HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics

#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

✊ Data rights are worker’s rights.

#GDPR was used by Uber drivers to take on unfair ‘robo-firing’. Workers used subject access requests to show the #facialrecognition system was discriminatory.

They challenged dismissals under article 22 GDPR – the right to not be subject to automated decisions with life-changing impacts without review.

The #DataGrabBill makes it harder for workers to resist this practice.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/23/uk-bill-waters-down-protections-against-robo-firing-in-gig-economy-say-experts

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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/

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

👁️ Britain is an 'omni-surveillance society' 👁️

The words of the Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner – a post that’ll be abolished by the #DataGrabBill.

Advances in #facialrecognition tech without proper oversight and a political will to double its use in policing means innocent people will be subjected to authoritarian biometric #surveillance and discredited predictive #policing.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/britain-omni-surveillance-society-watchdog-warns

Without oversight or strong data rights, facial recognition will further embed discriminatio if the #DataGrabBill becomes law.

Accuracy diminishes when the subject is a person of colour and the younger the person is, disproportionately misidentifying young Black men.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #facialrecognition #codedbias #ai #surveillance

https://www.amnesty.ca/surveillance/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/

Without oversight or strong data rights, facial recognition will further embed discriminatio if the #DataGrabBill becomes law.

Accuracy diminishes when the subject is a person of colour and the younger the person is, disproportionately misidentifying young Black men.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #facialrecognition #codedbias #ai #surveillance

https://www.amnesty.ca/surveillance/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/

Without oversight or strong data rights, facial recognition will further embed discriminatio if the #DataGrabBill becomes law.

Accuracy diminishes when the subject is a person of colour and the younger the person is, disproportionately misidentifying young Black men.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #facialrecognition #codedbias #ai #surveillance

https://www.amnesty.ca/surveillance/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/

Without oversight or strong data rights, facial recognition will further embed discriminatio if the #DataGrabBill becomes law.

Accuracy diminishes when the subject is a person of colour and the younger the person is, disproportionately misidentifying young Black men.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #facialrecognition #codedbias #ai #surveillance

https://www.amnesty.ca/surveillance/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/

Without oversight or strong data rights, facial recognition will further embed discriminatio if the #DataGrabBill becomes law.

Accuracy diminishes when the subject is a person of colour and the younger the person is, disproportionately misidentifying young Black men.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #GDPR #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #facialrecognition #codedbias #ai #surveillance

https://www.amnesty.ca/surveillance/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/

“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/

The involvement of multi-national companies like Palantir in the NHS means our most sensitive information is primed for a #DataGrab at home and abroad.

Data that'll be used for the surveillance economy at our expense.

Join our campaign.

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

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