Stop the use of facial age estimation tech in the UK asylum process! Some of the most vulnerable children in the world will be exposed to inaccurate and biased AI tools. Read the open letter to the Home Office signed by ORG and 60 organisations, led by Foxglove and Human Rights Watch ⬇️

Foxglove

Foxglove, Human Rights Watch and 60 other organisations write open letter to Government condemning Home Office border tool aimed at asylum-seeking children

This open letter has been prepared by Foxglove and Human Rights Watch. A full list of signatories can be found at the bottom of the page.

#RefugeeWeek #ai #asylum #immigration #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 New powers were slipped into the UK Crime and Policing Bill yesterday ⚠️ The police will be given powers to extract data from seized devices and any online accounts accessed on it. No judicial oversight, just on the say so of a senior officer 😖 Read our response ⬇️

Open Rights Group

Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts

Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill.

#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Make it rain 🌧️ The UK government’s demand for a spy hole makes your iCloud storage leaky. All your pics, docs, finances and more are up for grabs. Hackers, blackmailers and predators will have a field day. Sign our petition to save Apple encrypted services!

38 Degrees

Keep our Apple data encrypted

It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any...

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

The UK Data Use and Access Bill is in Parliament today and our data rights are on the line. ORG’s Legal and Policy Officer @npub128ky...grvv is keeping an eye on the goings on and live posting from the debate. Follow for all the latest 👀 ⬇️ #DUABill #DataBill #GDPR #dataprotection #ukpolitics #privacy #ukpol

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Mariano delli Santi (@marianods@mastodon.bida.im)

Good morning everyone. Today the Data Use and Access Bill will be discussed in second reading in the House of Commons. This is (always) the infamou...

We need a citizen-led UK declaration of digital rights and principles! ORG has signed Demo's open letter for: ⚫ Public consultation on digital rights to shape the declaration. ⚫ A national digital rights network ⚫ Digital rights to be integrated into future policy decisions "By developing this, the UK can build trust in our emerging digital policies and help responsible innovation to drive growth that benefits us all." #AIsummit #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol

the Guardian

Britain needs to protect citizens’ rights in the race for AI | Letter

Letter: The government must urgently develop a declaration of digital rights and principles involving the public and civil society, write Polly Cur...

⚠️ Time is running out: the UK Data Bill will unleash AI ⚠️ Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions that have life-changing impacts. Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine. Join over 1.1K people: Sign and share NOW before the Bill returns to Parliament ⬇️ #dataprotection #GDPR #DataBill #DUABill #privacy #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights

38 Degrees

How to run an online petition There are thousands of petitions running on 38 Degrees right now. Over the years we've learnt a lot about how to word...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI. The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review! Read our open letter ⬇️ #DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics

Open Rights Group

Letter to Peter Kyle: Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI

Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to b...

Over 300 people have signed our petition to save the right to human review of decisions made by AI. The UK #DataBill must not expose us to algorithmic biases and mistakes. Humans, not machines, should have the final say in life-changing decisions. Add your name NOW ⬇️ #dataprotection #AI #DUABill £GDPR #ukpolitics

38 Degrees

How to run an online petition There are thousands of petitions running on 38 Degrees right now. Over the years we've learnt a lot about how to word...