1/ #British? Believe kids + adults need data protection? The most important post today for you NOT to ignore. Watch and sign.

#BigTech should also push hard for solid regulation to minimise the reputational harm that will come in a wild west regulatory environment.

Sign here: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-data-discrimination

#DataDiscrimination #DataProtection #GDPR #OnlineSafety #Privacy

Your personal data is used to profile you, making it easier for biased algorithms to decide over job applications, loans, housing and more. Data discrimination has real consequences for marginalised groups the most. We ask councils to fight this practice. #DataDiscrimination #DataProtection #GDPR #CodedBias

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/councils-against-data-discrimination-10-questions-to-ensure-your-council-isnt-committing-data-discrimination/

Find out more about our campaign to stop the Data Discrimination Bill and how to get involved. #GDPR #DataDiscrimination #dataprotection

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-data-discrimination/

Data is already irresponsibly and opaquely shared between public departments. We ask the governance panel that's being recruited to consider the impact of the oversharing of data and current safeguards as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018 if they're to deliver justice. #GDPR #DataDiscrimination #dataprotection

The reliance on content, whether on social media or through private messages, to make tenuous links to crimes is a worrying trend. The move towards pre-crime in policing and the judicial system constructs guilt by association based on racial profiling.

Read more about the Gangs Matrix, Project Alpha and the case of the Manchester 10. #PreCrime #DataDiscrimination

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/young-people-are-being-criminalised-for-content/

“We’re seeing a worrying reliance on decontextualised private chat and social media content as evidence to criminalise individuals" and the "over-surveillance of marginalised communities through intrusive databases, such as the Gangs Matrix" – ORG's Policy Manager, Sophia Akram #DataDiscrimination #PreCrime

Improving the governance of court and tribunal data alone isn’t going to advance access to justice for marginalised groups. We already see data discrimination in the misguided use of digital evidence in court cases. The proposed data protection reforms will unleash more of this. #GDPR #DataDiscrimination #dataprotection

We spoke to Tech Monitor about plans to introduce a data governance panel covering the English and Welsh justice systems. This must be seen in light of the proposed reforms to data protection in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. #GDPR #DataDiscrimination #dataprotection

https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/moj-hmcts-data-governance-panel-judicial-data-sharing

Article by my colleague Sophia Akram. It details how people who have migrated are fearful of contacting the Police in abuse cases - incase their details get passed onto the Home Office and they end up being deported. Also how abuses exploit the fear of being reported to the Home Office https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/data-sharing-and-migrant-women-reporting-abuse/ #datadiscrimination