🇬🇧🚨Big tech companies want to continue indiscriminately scanning and controlling your chats! Lobby letter from the surveillance-industrial network: ccianet.org/news/2024/01/fight…

This #Chatcontrol 1.0 does not protect against abuse, but criminalizes thousands of young people every year and overburdens law enforcement.

Conservatives, socialists and liberals want to green-light it in a fast-track procedure next Wednesday... As a #Pirate MEP, I'm not just voting against it, I'm taking it to court!

Read on: chatcontrol.wtf

Ernährungstip, empirisch bestens belegt:

Lobbyhäppchen verderben den Charakter.

Was ist, wenn die "Rechten" an die politische Macht kommen?:

>"Die Erfahrung zeigt: Neue Instrumente zur Massenüberwachung wecken Begehrlichkeiten und werden für immer mehr Zwecke eingesetzt. Aus aktuellem Anlass finde ich daher folgende Frage wichtig: Stellen Sie sich mal vor, eine demokratiefeindliche Partei wie die rechts außen hat Zugriff auf solche Überwachungstechnologien. Was glauben sie, wofür die AfD sie wohl verwenden würde? "<

mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…

@ankedb

Looking forward to a deep-dive discussion at #PrivacyCamp24 comparing #healthdata regimes in the #EU and #UK and how (and if at all) they protect #patients' rights.

#EHDS #NHS #privacy #DataProtection

✈️ 🚄 Growing infrastructure and business model behind immigration and surveillance panel kicks start with @earsinfingers explaining the profiling systems being put in place at global level.

He points out the mass data collection and algorithmic opacity these initiatives imply as well as their discriminatory nature.

Being pushed by the global counterterrorism agenda, Muslims are the main target of these automated travel surveillance.

@CaitLChandler continues with highlighting some of our investigative reports on travel surveillance 👁️

💵 💲 She stresses how corporate interests are driving this mass surveillance agenda and how private companies incorporate racist biases in the profiling systems of travellers. Rare languages, visa applications, nationality are used as risk factors.

⚖️ She further explains how remedies to contest flagging and entry bans are almost impossible to access: who made the decision is unknown.

@CaitLChandler further shares the story of a high ranked Yemeni politician who was included by the US on a travel ban list and as a result categorised as a terrorist with supposed, unsubstantiated links to terrorist organisations, by the United Nations.

🤯 This story tells how travel surveillance can have wide-ranging impacts on someone's life and how difficult it is to get out of the situation.

@DrMonishBhatia takes the floor and explains the various type of control and surveillance applied to migrants in the UK, highlighting in particular electronic monitoring.

He considers it an disproportionate and unnecessary sanction for people who have committed minor offences, especially when it has not been proven to deter those from committing further crimes."It's stupid" he assesses.

In the immigration field, there is no time limit on electronic monitoring, no legal basis for the Home Office to impose curfew on migrants and breaking the rules can lead to a prison sentence of 6 months.

📡 The system was expanded to rely on GPS tags instead of traditional radio frequency tags: this enables to monitor people’s precise location 24/7.

The harms induced from electronic monitoring are severe. "It is a cruel alternative to prison, not a soft one", says @DrMonishBhatia

@LucieCAudibert specifies that there has been a huge increase in electronic monitoring in the UK: within a year in 2022-23, 86% more people tagged, i.e. 4000 people in the immigration system.

Since 2021, the Home Office has a duty to tag "all foreign national offenders", even of minor criminal ones, whatever the risk they actually pose to the society.

@privacyint brought two cases against this system for privacy & DP violations and "ultra vires"(Home Office doesn't have power to do that)

@LucieCAudibert concludes by presenting the latest innovative nightmare introduced in immigration control such as biometrics scanning.

⏰ The person is required to scan their face within ONE MINUTE, otherwise this is considered a breach of the bail system and building a profile of the person as "non-compliant".

🤯 IN.SA.NE.🤯

Lastly she notes that the system has tremendous cost implications on the public budget without any evidence of efficiency.

💻 You can still join #PrivacyCamp24 online HERE: privacycamp.eu/

Sessions coming up:

🌟organising towards #DigitalJustice in Europe
🌟AI #surveillance during wartime
🌟reverse engineering and #GDPR to support gig workers
🌟enforcing #privacy & #DataProtection in turbulent times

It's really wow to hear Dr @carmelatroncoso, who worked on the #covid19 contact tracing protocol in 2020, tell how #Google and #Apple used their power over their mobile OS to make life hard for those building the protocol and the actual apps.

She's citing take-it-or-leave-it kind of power, in particular through #API design and unilateral changes to it.

Despite some gaps and unanswered questions this was a really interesting panel on the #EHDS, big thanks to @bisilisib for the moderation!

#PrivacyCamp24

Next up: #Privacy is Big Business: How #BigTech instrumentalises #PETs to expand its infrastructural power.

Featuring @KrisShrishak, @Thijmen_vg, Donald Bertulfo, and @carmelatroncoso, moderated by the one and only @Seda Gürses 😀

European parliament advisor Francesco Vogelezang points at all the #privacy safeguards the parliament position on the #EHDS has introduced.