This should be all over the papers. Racial profiling of voters without consent is not acceptable.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
And, you may ask, why isn’t it all over the papers.

EXHIBIT ONE: The @ICOnews Press Release

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
Any mention of 10 million people being racially profiled? No. But there is this. I feel reassured. Image
EXHIBIT TWO: The ICO Report Image
What do we find here?

Oh, here it is, on page 11 of 21—buried, almost exactly in the middle of the report. Image
No mention of whether this profiling was unlawful, or if it has stopped. No guidance or recommendation to constrain future profiling practices.

Almost as if @ICOnews did not really want to be associated with a story about @Conservatives racially profiling 10,000,000 people
Let us remind ourselves:

(1) The @ICOnews is an independent regulator

(2) It must apply the rules to everyone, equally

(3) If it finds rule breaking, it must enforce against it
By burying this news in a long report, @ICOnews has risked further damage to its reputation.

It may think it has avoided a political skirmish and creating enemies it is scared of, but that is not the calculation of a regulator.

It has a job—just one job—REGULATE.

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More from @jimkillock

19 Nov
On the face of it, this is welcome news:

@Google are introducing e2e encryptions for Android RCS messaging

blog.google/products/messa…
This is announced, coincidentally I am sure, during a debate on #onlineharms in the Commons.

In the UK, there is pressure for the Government to ban or “licence” e2e encryption of personal messages as @WebDevLaw wrote on our blog last week

openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-signs…
Many companies are moving towards encrypting chat services. Government and MPs need to ask themselves why that is.

So, why is the market moving towards very secure messaging apps?
Read 5 tweets
19 Nov
So far not much coverage of the Commons Trade Committee’s Japan Trade deal report

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmse…
It matters when MPs start looking at things the Government is not keen to discuss.

Here they discuss the privacy impacts of “data flow” commitments Image
This is the best news: they plan an inquiry on data and digital matters in trade agreements.

That is a real step forward as it will force some clarity about the strategy and consequences. Image
Read 4 tweets
24 Sep
Today the @NHSuk COVID tracing App is launched, and they have ended up using the privacy friendly technology from Apple and Google — and even adopted the same approach for QR code scanning in pubs and bars.

A huge win for privacy, the Govt set their face against this.

*BUT*
* If you are poor, don’t have a smartphone, then your privacy is not properly protected.

* Instead, you hand your details to the venue with no safeguards

* And when you talk to test and Trace, we still know nothing of how bad their privacy is, or if problems are fixed
That is why @OpenRightsGroup and @BigBrotherWatch yesterday asked our lawyers at @A__W______O to write to the Government demanding answers.
Read 5 tweets
27 Jul
I guess most people who are on the #twitterwalkout won't be monitoring this.

But rather than just walking out: why not also start using @joinmastodon which has much stronger policies and community around reudcing hateful content?

eg: mastodon.online
Here are more alternatives: joinmastodon.org/#getting-start…
Here's me, if you want to chat there: campaign.openworlds.info/web/accounts/5…
Read 4 tweets
20 Jul
WIn for @OpenRightsGroup:

Government admits to ORG that England's test and trace programme 'breaks GDPR data law'

bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
What happened here:

ORG was already concerned because the App had a late and bad Data Protection Impact Assessment.

When the manual Track and Trace programme was launched at the end of May, Politico reported no DPIA had been done.

politico.eu/article/uk-tes…
We wrote to the Government, which said it had done a DPIA on CTAS. They obfuscated to us, trying to imply doing a DPIA on one part of the system was enough.

CTAS is the 'Contact Tracing and Advisory Service' web portal, one of several pieces of software.

wired.co.uk/article/nhs-co…
Read 10 tweets
4 Jul
The debates over statues and today David Starkey’s racist remarks puts me in mind of this.

Doing some Wikipedia research in 2018, I found one of those statements that were “citation needed”. In this case, though, it really felt like it needed resolution, one way or the other. Image
Yes, you read that right. A school in Lincolnshire had allegedly designed its' logo to refer back to what is the most famous Jewish Blood Libel of the middle ages.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…
I found a source (an old school history from 1975) bought it on ebay and added the reference.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti… Image
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