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🚨NEW: The UK’s new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, introduced to the House on Monday, represents a ‘bonfire of rights’ in data reforms, say campaigners. 🧵 
The Government’s new GDPR replacement legislation, dubbed a ‘Data Oligarchs Charter’ is said to undermine the rule of law, placing ministers in charge of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), risking a ‘free flow of personal data’ between EU and UK.
openrightsgroup.org/press-releases…
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In a damning review from privacy org Open Rights Group, it’s reported that the Bill will “not only strip UK consumers of their privacy rights, they will create a jungle where big tech and rogue businesses will be free to harass everyone in the name of growth and innovation”
🔴 The European Court of Human Rights block on sending asylum seekers to #Rwanda could be overturned by ministers under new proposals, as part of changes to the Human Rights Act.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Law Society president Stephanie Boyce, who represents solicitors, said:"The bill will create an acceptable class of human-rights abuses in the United Kingdom. It is a lurch backwards for British justice. Authorities may begin to consider some rights violations as acceptable"
Sacha Deshmukh, @AmnestyUK's chief executive, said the legislation would represent "a giant leap backwards for the rights of ordinary people"
🚨 NEW #BillWatch #StopTheSlide
Boris and his cronies are waging a war on democracy. We are sliding into authoritarianism one bill at a time.
This time we scrutinise the #NationalSecurityBill and its devastating impact on #freepress.
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Boris and his cronies are waging a war on democracy. We are sliding into authoritarianism one bill at a time.
This time we scrutinise the #NationalSecurityBill and its devastating impact on #freepress.
Support us here
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Opening today's parliamentary debate on #WorldPressFreedomDay2022, Uk Mp @DamianCollins highlighted the threats and pressures independent journalism is increasingly under worldwide.
The Uk is no exception
The Uk is no exception
Today, a debate on #WorldPressFreedomDay2022 will take place in Parliament.
The day ‘acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom’. Meanwhile, the Tories are doing the exact opposite.
How? Find out 👇🧵
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The day ‘acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom’. Meanwhile, the Tories are doing the exact opposite.
How? Find out 👇🧵
#BillWatch
This year’s theme was “Journalism Under Digital Siege”, underlining the role of information in an online media environment, with a focus on:
➡️Freedom of expression
➡️The safety of journalists
➡️Access to information
➡️Privacy
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
➡️Freedom of expression
➡️The safety of journalists
➡️Access to information
➡️Privacy
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
This years’ theme, fittingly, could be critically applied to sections of proposed bills, which could target journalists and allowing ministers to evade scrutiny instead of protecting freedoms. In fact, sections of the National Security Bill are of the most serious concern.
#KeepingTheReceipts Week 57.
This week has marked important victories and losses for Journalism, Victory in the case of Carole Cadwalladr and updates on the extradition of Assange, while government pushes forward its aggressive agenda, bringing bills set to undermine democracy.
This week has marked important victories and losses for Journalism, Victory in the case of Carole Cadwalladr and updates on the extradition of Assange, while government pushes forward its aggressive agenda, bringing bills set to undermine democracy.
1. Monday brought news that vindicated Carole Cadwalladr's public interest defence against multi-millionaire Arron Banks, a huge victory for public interest journalism and against lawfare used to silence journalists:
2. But the same could not be said for the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as this week the government motioned that it would allow the extradition of Assange to the US, where he faces trial under the Espionage Act:
🚨NEW: This week's PMQs Fact Check with @Femi_Sorry.
#BorisJohnson spins the truth even on #Brexit, while #PritiPatel defends welcoming Ukrainian refugees while deporting all the others to #Rwanda
Are you ok, mates?
#BorisJohnson spins the truth even on #Brexit, while #PritiPatel defends welcoming Ukrainian refugees while deporting all the others to #Rwanda
Are you ok, mates?
The government remains committed to sending asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda and plans for future flights have begun, #PritiPatel has told MPs.
"We will not be deterred from doing the right thing," the home secretary said.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-618081…
"We will not be deterred from doing the right thing," the home secretary said.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-618081…
Despite what Boris Johnson keeps saying in his alternative reality, the Uk economic situation is dire and worsening
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news.sky.com/story/uk-headi…
🔴 Yesterday, the Court of Appeal refused to block the Home Office’s deportation of asylum seekers to #Rwanda.
The first flight is scheduled to leave tonight, at 9:30pm, as human rights lawyers battle to stop the removals.
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The first flight is scheduled to leave tonight, at 9:30pm, as human rights lawyers battle to stop the removals.
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It was also reported that two last-ditch attempts to halt the flight had been rejected, with the Home Office admitting that there is a risk the flight could be cancelled anyway, after legal challenges meant that fewer than 10 people are expected to board
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
A source told Playbook that, due to individual case challenges brought against the government, “just seven” people were due to board, and that an ongoing “legal merry go-round” could well mean the “removal of every single last person” from the flight.
politico.eu/newsletter/lon…
politico.eu/newsletter/lon…
Deportation flights to #Rwanda are another example of 'appalling and inhumane" policies the Uk government is implementing.
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Foreign Secretary #LizTruss considers deportations to Rwanda 'completely moral".
How would you reply?
How would you reply?
The opposition is fighting the #Rwanda policy.
Labour Mp #YvetteCooper has called it "completely unworkable, deeply unethical, extortionately expensive, profoundly un-British".
Labour Mp #YvetteCooper has called it "completely unworkable, deeply unethical, extortionately expensive, profoundly un-British".
