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Stop Spying on Asylum Seekers!

This was a campaign to take action with us and write to Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary, to demand that the Home Office stops spying on asylum seekers through their 'Aspen Card' debit payment card. The campaign is now closed.

When Local Authorities aren’t your Friends

UK local authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, as part of their intelligence gathering and investigation tactics in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests and demonstrations.

In some cases, local authorities will go so far as to use such information to make accusations of fraud and withhold urgently needed support from families who are living in extreme poverty.

Protecting migrants at borders and beyond

The use of data and new technologies are driving a revolution in immigration enforcement, and affected people are going to be at greater risk.

Demanding identity systems on our terms

There is a growing push towards identity systems around the world - leading to some of the world's largest biometric databases, as well as other technologies that can be used to track and profile individuals and communities.

 

Neighbourhood Watched

From facial recognition to social media monitoring, from remote hacking to the use of mobile surveillance equipment called 'IMSI catchers', UK police forces are using an ever-expanding array of surveillance tools to spy on us as we go about our everyday lives.

State Sponsors of Surveillance: The Governments Helping Others Spy

Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.
 

Stop GPS tagging migrants

Fighting the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK's 'hostile environment'