"The increasing use of biometric surveillance risks automating the inequality and discrimination already baked into the immigration services and policing."

Find out more about the UK government's digital hostile environment impacts migrants and refugees in the latest blog from the Migrants' Rights Network.

#surveillance #migrantdigitaljustice #ukpolitics #migrants

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/digital-hostile-environment/

Migrants' data rights are under attack.

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers over their data, leading to significant harm.

Read our latest blog by @sarahalsherif – ORG Programme Manager – and the full briefing on the harms of the Bill.

#DPDIBill #MigrantDigitalJustice #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/migrants-data-rights-under-attack/

What does the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill mean for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees?

@sarahalsherif – ORG Programme Manager – explains how the #DPDIBill will weaken data protection and put vulnerable communities at greater risk.

We demand strong data rights!

#MigrantDigitalJustice #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR

The police have collected biometric data of 2,400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers under 'Operation Innerste'. This data is shared with immigration enforcement and can be held for at least five years. A huge and outrageous violation of data rights.

#MigrantDigitalJustice #dataprotection #ukpolitics #privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/16/fears-grow-over-purpose-of-uk-police-collecting-data-from-lone-child-refugees

We’re welcoming @sarahalsherif to Open Rights Group as the Migrant Digital Justice Programme Manager!

Sara joins us to work with migrants’ rights communities and movements to challenge the government’s digital hostile environment.

#MigrantDigitalJustice #humanrights #dataprotection

Find our more about Sara here: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/introducing-sara-alsherif/

The UK government’s refusal to address the harms caused by the immigration exception shows that its priority is "maintaining the hostile digital environment rather than a fair and transparent immigration system.”

Meg Foulkes, ORG's Head of Policy and Litigation on today's second judicial review against the government with the3million.

#GDPR #immigration #migrantdigitaljustice

6/6 Keep up to date with our work on the link between digital techology and the migrant sector. Sign up to our newsletter today. #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/sign-orgs-immigration-data-and-technology-newsletter

5/6 We need better understanding of the effectiveness of services, but the lack of trust from migrant communities means they aren’t engaged. Why should survivors share their stories and relive their trauma when nothing changes for them afterwards? #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

4/6 With the prospect of data being shared with the Home Office, the fear of deportation can be held over the head of the person being abused. This keeps migrant women in a state of abuse and exploitation. #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

3/6 There are calls for a firewall between immigration enforcement and public service provision. Migrant women need transparency about how data is shared to protect themselves and the children they may have to leave behind. #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

2/6 Migrant women are protected under modern slavery laws only if they’re referred under the National Referral Mechanism. Deterring people from coming forward to the police enables violence against women by denying them access to justice. #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

🧵1/6 Reporting domestic abuse should lead to help, not deportation. Yet this is what migrant women find when the police share their data with the Home Office. Read how this deters people from accessing justice and public services. #migrantdigitaljustice #dataprotection

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/data-sharing-and-migrant-women-reporting-abuse/

4/12 Together with the Migrant Rights Network and Migrants at Work, we launched the #ChallengeTheChecks campaign. This work uncovers the negative effects of expecting employers to enforce immigration law in the workplace. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/2022/09/29/campaign-launch-challenge-the-checks/

3/12 We launched the Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit during the Solidarity Knows No Borders Week of Action. This major piece of work empowers individuals and organisations seeking to protect the digital rights of migrants. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/migrant-digital-justice-toolkit/

2/12: We launched our Migrant Digital Justice Programme to protect people from digital discrimination and strengthen the digital rights of migrant communities. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/immigration-policy-project/