We've signed a joint letter to oppose the resurrection of welfare surveillance powers in the UK.
Using welfare fraud as a wedge issue to spy on all benefit claimants is a huge blow for privacy and has the makings of a Horizon-style scandal.
Suspicionless algorithmic surveillance will impact pensioners, disabled people and carers. They will bear the brunt when these systems go wrong.
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By the end of 2024, up to 4 million migrants will be unable to prove their right to be in the UK offline.
They'll find themselves at the mercy of real-time checks. A system that'll decide a person's status by guessing which records match across multiple databases.
The errors that'll come pave the way for a digital Windrush scandal.
#stopEvisas #migrants #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/e-visas-hostile-and-broken/
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Establishment Economists explaining the Central Bank setting interest rates at 20%, causing massive unemployment, collapse in the housing market, widespread small business failures, and suicides among small business owners and unemployed;
"Well last months M1 and M2 Money Supply numbers combined with high employment were at levels econmists and Central Bankers consider potentially inflationary so they had to do it."
“It began as it always begins, with a lie – in this case, the lie that the wicked stabbing attack on a children’s dance party in Southport, which left three little girls dead, was the work of a Muslim migrant who had come to Britain on a small boat. I say “always” because this kind of lie has been told for the best part of a thousand years.”
Jonathan Freedland
@guardian
#ukPolitics
#elonMusk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/09/uk-far-right-riots-elon-musk-x?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Justice Minister Heidi Alexander made the comments after Musk posted a comment saying that “Civil war is inevitable” in the U.K., and branded Prime Minister Keir Starmer "#twotierKeir", aligning himself with far-right complaints that the police handle different groups of people in different ways. Here’s more.
