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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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#ukpolitics #surveillance #digitalrights #privacy #welfare
Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’
Exclusive: privacy and rights groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillanceRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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in reply to Open Rights Group • • •That's definitely on @pluralistic 's "shitty technology adoption curve"
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/
> Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient. I call it the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve.
> The point of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve is to normalize technological oppression, one group at a time.
Benefit claimants are also low on the privilege gradient
Pluralistic: 21 Aug 2022 The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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