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Prevent ≠ safeguarding. It's about surveillance.
The UK ban on Palestine Action and a vague interpretation of 'extremism' has meant that people engaging in the Palestinian solidarity movement have been swept up into the Prevent Duty.
We must not criminalise dissent!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/23/palestine-action-ban-home-office-prevent-scheme
#prevent #preventduty #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol #freespeech #freedomofexpression #Palestine #PalestineAction
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The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group starts tomorrow.
This is a dangerous escalation in the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK.
It’ll increase surveillance, particularly under the Prevent Duty, and censorship under the Online Safety Act.
Read our blog ⬇️
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As there’s no public evidence of any link to terrorism or support of terrorist groups from Palestine Action, Open Rights Group supports their decision to appeal proscription.
While we may have differing opinions on their tactics, we stand against this attack on their right to exist and speak out.
#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech
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At the heart of this decision is the logic of ‘pre-crime’.
Where the state intervenes not just against unlawful acts, but also against political expression that it considers might become threatening.
This turns activism into extremism. Legitimate political demands into a national security threat.
#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech
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Doubling down on Prevent, while neglecting ongoing cuts to public services, means even more children who pose no threat will be criminalised and stigmatised.
Expanding Prevent won't create safety, only more long-term surveillance through widespread data collection, sharing and retention.
The families whose girls were murdered deserve a better response.
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The Prevent Duty already sweeps thousands of innocent people into its scope. But the vast majority of people reported don't progress to a Channel panel for intervention and will never engage in serious violence.
Prevent instead diverts resources away from under-funded services, community support and infrastructure that could genuinely keep our communities safe.
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People aren't typically referred to Prevent because they've committed a crime, rather due to a speculative risk of 'radicalisation'. The reality is, many Prevent referrals are based on gut instinct, rather than concrete evidence.
BUT also from public sector workers who believe a child needs additional support.
Why should kids have to be considered at risk of becoming a terrorist to get help?
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Prevent is the wrong focus ❌
Redefining terrorism will mean more people are referred to the Prevent Duty. But that won’t necessarily make anyone any safer.
The UK government must ask why, despite extensive contact with multiple agencies, Axel Rudakubana still went on to commit this horrific attack.
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Last week the UK government published a Prevent Learning Review in response to the Southport murders.
If this leads to expanding the scope of an already harmful programme, thousands more innocent people could be put under surveillance.
Read our latest blog ⬇️
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Data from Prevent referrals is held for at least 6 years on the chance of re-offending, despite the distinct lack of a crime.
Based on racialised presumptions, Prevent is filled with false positive results to determine supposedly would-be terrorists.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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“Despite the lack of utility to state security, [Prevent] referrals – and their storage, retention and sharing – can have disruptive and lasting impacts on individuals, including children as young as 6-years-old.”
🗣️ Sophia Akram on ORG's recent report.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
https://www.digit.fyi/is-the-uks-prevent-data-retention-programme-illegal/
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"The prospect that people’s data could be held from when they were a child for the duration of their lifetime is disproportionate."
Our report shows data is retained despite the lack of any offence or the need for intervention, with the majority of people referred being under 17.
🗣️ Sophia Akram for ORG.
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If you’re referred to Prevent, your data rights are made difficult to enforce.
The right to erasure is weakened by a lack of transparency about data sharing between multiple databases and national security exemptions used by counter-terrorism police.
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The majority of Prevent referrals don't meet the threshold for intervention.
Depsite this, data is retained for at least 6 years and can be shared widely with potentially harmful impacts.
Raise concerns about the Prevent programme with your Council in the UK ⬇️
#Prevent #PreventDuty #surveillance #dataprotection #ukpolitics
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ask-your-councillor-take-action-prevent-and-pre-crime-state
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So that’s socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion added to the drag net of thought that is Prevent (UK).
Freedom of expression shouldn’t be ring-fenced by the governing party’s preferred system of reality, but a means of debating important issues.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #freedomofexpression #freespeech #censorship #ukpolitics
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Expanding Prevent into the immigration system adds to the surveillance of migrants in the digital hostile environment.
With data retained and shared across multiple systems, racialised communities are exposed to abuse.
Read more from Migrants' Rights Network ⬇️
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A Prevent referral becomes a stain on a young person’s record.
It can be shared between databases across State agencies – possibly indefinitely.
Our report highlights the lasting impacts on people. We call on the government to end the Prevent duty.
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Limit language, limit thought.
Prevent harvests young people’s data due to natural curiosity, remarks around religion or even a keen interest in history.
It chills critical thought, rendering people suspect for disproportionate surveillance.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #FreedomOfExpression #ukpolitics
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Prevent referrals overrepresent Muslim communities with ideas of radicalisation based on racialised assumptions.
The Shawcross Review of Prevent adds to the increasing surveillance of marginalised communities while discounting far-right ideology.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/prevent-shawcross-fails-to-address-data-harms-and-rights/
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"The overwhelming majority of people subject to Prevent referrals did not meet the threshold for a de-radicalisation intervention, yet their data is being retained for at least six years."
ORG's report raises serious concerns about the Prevent programme (UK).
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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Prevent is a system of blanket data retention. A chilling reality when the majority of people referred are under 17.
Data is shared with children’s services and kept for 25 years after they turn 18, potentially impacting future assessments about their own children.
Read our new report, Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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Our report into widespread data misuse under the Prevent programme comes as referrals have spiked following the Israel/Gaza conflict.
Students should have safe spaces to process the world around them without fearing it’ll mark them for life. Prevent is a flawed programme that undermines freedom of expression and abuses data rights.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/prevent-duty-israel-palestine-conflict/
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Lacking in oversight and transparency, the national Prevent database operates in the shadows.
Prevent masquerades as a safeguarding measure while the police exercise security exemptions over data to limit protections in favour continued surveillance of mostly Muslim communities.
Red our report now: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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The Prevent Database was revealed by Liberty in 2019.
Accessible to all police forces, data of people referred to Prevent was open to Counter-Terrorism surveillance.
Our report shows how even rejected referrals can be retained for at least six years.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #Policing #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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The majority of Prevent referrals don’t need any action.
Yet data is kept for at least 6 years, profiling young people as pre-criminals for continued surveillance.
We call for a ban on retaining data when the threshold for intervention isn’t met.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #Surveillance #PreCrime #DataProtection #ukpolitics
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“The implication is that we could hold a generation of children in permanent suspicion with no means of redress."
🗣️ Sophia Akram on ORG's report into the harmful widespread retention and sharing of data under the Prevent programme.
Find out more ⬇️
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"Findings from the Open Rights Group report has revealed a lack of oversight surrounding the data retained by the Prevent programme, and the particular harms against children this could cause."
Our report shows the urgent need for a rethink of Prevent.
#Prevent #PreventDuty #DataProtection #Surveillance #ukpolitics
https://www.digit.fyi/is-the-uks-prevent-data-retention-programme-illegal/
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The Prevent duty co-opts teachers, doctors and social workers to report mostly children for being susceptible to radicalisation.
Data is kept and can be shared across multiple databases with little transparency, which can expose young people to prolonged State interference.
Read out report ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/
#Prevent #PreventDuty #DataProtection #Surveillance #ukpolitics
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Our report into Prevent reveals that data is being retained and shared across databases with potentially harmful outcomes, despite most referrals resulting in no action.
ORG's Sophia Akram explains how data rights are weakened under Prevent.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-reveals-widespread-data-sharing-and-retention-of-prevent-referrals-including-childrens-data/
#Prevent #DataProtection #Surveillance #PreventDuty #ukpolitics