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"Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trumpโs โoutrageousโ $10bn lawsuit" - GPLB
People have found inaccurate personal details on their eVisas, including photos, names, visa end dates or even passport numbers.
The glitchy system has left people unable to prove their right to work, rent, study, travel, or access essential services.
The ICO must investigate the UK eVisa scheme.
#evisa #migrants #migrantrights #immigration #homeoffice #ico #ukpolitics #ukpol
The botched UK eVisa scheme needs to be investigated.
The Home Office failed to assess the risks of a digital-only scheme. As a result, migrants have experienced widespread data errors, inaccessible design and technical failures.
Read about our open letter to the ICO โฌ๏ธ
independent.co.uk/news/uk/homeโฆ
#evisa #migrants #migrantrights #immigration #homeoffice #ico #ukpolitics #ukpol
Canadian citizenโs personal details shared with Russian woman in major eVisa data breach
Migrant rights groups call on the data watchdog to investigate โunresolvedโ problems with eVisa rolloutHolly Bancroft (The Independent)
Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trump's 'outrageous' $10bn lawsuit - UK politics live
#UKPolitics #StarmerChallenge #LicenceFeeDebate #FakeNewsClaim #BBCCharterRenewal
theguardian.com/politics/live/โฆ
Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trumpโs โoutrageousโ $10bn lawsuit โ UK politics live
Ed Davey says prime minister must make it clear lawsuit is โunacceptableโ as US president quotes Badenoch to back โfake newsโ claimAndrew Sparrow (The Guardian)
Solidarity rallies are being organised for the hunger strikers in Belfast, New York, London and Stockport
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#UKPolitics #SolidarityIsBeautiful #GlobaliseTheIntifada #FreePalestine #SupportTheHungerStrike
Piccadilly Circus occupied on behalf of the hunger strikers last night
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#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #SupportTheHungerStrike
Singing along to the Proclaimers to keep warm in Aberdeen, where they're kicking out the fash.
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#UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada #FuckTheFash
"Austerity has scarred the UK for the last 14 years. If it wants to finally break free, then itโs time for a radical new approach. And that starts with rethinking how government finances work"
Excellent in the New Statesman re Green Party leader, Zack Polanski's use of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a recent interview.
#MMT #Economics #GreenParty #UKPolitics
newstatesman.com/politics/greeโฆ
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The economics behind Zack Polanskiโs claims
In these pages last week (25 November), Green Party leader Zack Polanski told George Eaton that โThe fiscal rule we need to have is to make sure that inflation doesnโt go higher than the skills and reAaron Teater (New Statesman)
The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.
It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.
Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December โฌ๏ธ
action.openrightsgroup.org/telโฆ
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
You'd have thought this would be a bigger story.
A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was โcovered upโ by the force.
lbc.co.uk/article/met-officer-โฆ
LBC investigation finds Metropolitan Police 'brushed under the carpet' claims that officer ran a grooming gang
Gang said to have included judge and MPAndy Hughes, LBC Crime Correspondent (LBC)
"The Nerve has mapped the political landscape to illustrate whoโs for digital ID and whoโs against it. And what our research shows is a web of influence that radiates out from Tony Blairโs Institute for Global Change. In the โforโ camp is a grab bag of people who are mostly associated with Blair. And against itโฆis everyone else"
#DigitalID #UKPolitics #TonyBlair #Oracle
If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
thenerve.news/p/digital-id-keiโฆ
If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britainโs wildly unpopular former PM. Itโs also a techno-authoritarianโs wet dream, argues Carole CadwalladrThe Nerve
After ChatGPT was introduced to Parliament, MPs suddenly started using phrasing that was previously only common in the US.
They literally don't bother thinking about the words coming out of their mouths *in real time*.
Full story from NYT:
In fact the pundits in the UK will call you 'Anti-Semitic' for boycotting Eurovision, and they will get the platform while opposing voices do not.
#Eurovision #EBU #BoycottEurovision #EBU #Colonialism #Politics #Genocide #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
It's the first fucking rule, Deborah.
Full story:
Cambridge cosies up to Reform UK
Leaked recordings of a University Council meeting, obtained by Varsity and The Sunday Times, show the VC fearful of Trump-style recriminations if Reform were to win powerVarsity Online
No bark. No bite.
The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
openrightsgroup.org/press-releโฆ
#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights
70+ organisations and experts demand action over failing ICO
Over 70 civil society organisations, academics and data protection experts have urged the Chair of the Select Committee for Science Information and Technology to open an inquiry into the collapse in enforcement activity by the Information CommissioneโฆOpen Rights Group
This is obscene. The vile Shabana Mahmood has confirmed the new immigration rules will be retrospective.
"Under the incoming rules they will have to wait 20 years after they arrived before they can apply for settlement. It means more than 10,000 refugees who were set to qualify for settlement next year will now have to wait a further 15 years before they can settle"
She knew what she was doing when she went to that peaceful demonstration against genocideโฆโฆ Bloody terrorist
#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #BorisJohnson #TaxTheRich
"People in countries like the UK donโt understand how refugees make decisions because our experiences are so different from theirs. A friend & I decided to risk escaping because we couldnโt face any more torture & beatings. We knew we might be killed but decided to take the risk. I didnโt have any good options.โ
#Asylumseekers #UKPolitics
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one manโs harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one manโs harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Hereโs how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decisionDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Amnesty Interntional went to the National Police Summit this week. When they asked delegates to talk on camera, no one wanted to.
This summit promised โsafer communitiesโ.
But it delivered something else: speed-dating with surveillance vendors, complete with a visit from the Home Secretary talking up artificial intelligence as the future of policing.
โCrime predictingโ technology creating mass human rights violations.
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#UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada #ACAB #MassSurveillance
If you want to know whether the police is using this new technology in your area, Amnesty has created an interactive map.
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amnesty.org.uk/interactive-mapโฆ
#UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada #ACAB #MassSurveillance
Interactive Map
Is your police force using this technology in YOUR area? The map will give you information on whether your local police force uses "crime predicting" technology, and if so, which one.www.amnesty.org.uk
Monster protest round up thread incoming!
Supporting the hunger strikers and calling out the government's criminalisation of protest in Derry yesterday.
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#FreePalestine #UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada
