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  1. Open Rights Group @[email protected] ·

    The Hostile Environment is hardcoded in the e-Visa scheme 🛑

    Under the system alogorithms will look across multiple databases as and when a person's status is checked to give a decision in real time.

    This online-only design choice carries the risk of errors and records being conflated.

    Unless the UK government puts in place offline alternatives, there's the risk of a digital Windrush scandal.

    Read more ⬇️

    #stopEvisas #eVisas #migrants #ukpolitics #digitalrights

    computerweekly.com/news/366611

    #stopevisas #evisas #migrants #ukpolitics #digitalrights
  2. Open Rights Group @[email protected] ·

    "With the deadline for e-Visa applications just months away, we urge the new Home Secretary (UK) to take urgent action in order to prevent a digital Windrush scandal next year.”

    🗣️ ORG's @sarahalsherif on our recent report into the e-Visa scheme.

    #stopEvisas #eVisas #migrants #ukpolitics

    digit.fyi/government-warned-e-

    #stopevisas #evisas #migrants #ukpolitics