Thread. @ICCLtweet joined #TonightVMTV yesterday to discuss the #PublicServicesCard.

The Minister also appeared and said it's "difficult to have a conversation with people when they don’t even know the facts.”

Respectfully, we know the facts.

virginmediatelevision.ie/player/show/12… @ICCLtweet The Minister said “Of course they have a choice” (5.52) about the PSC.

Fact: Our right “to access an ever-increasing range of public services has, in effect, been made conditional upon production of a PSC” (DPC, welfare.ie/en/pdf/pr17091…, at p21)

What kind of "choice" is that?

SR @Alston_UNSR, what we see around the world, governments developing surveillance systems don't subject the middle class to the issues. that 'we have problems with the poor - welfare fraud, crime etc' means the poor are very often guinea pigs for new programs. @Alston_UNSR Per SR @Alston_UNSR what we are dealing with today is very different from what could have been envisioned a few decades ago. Tech including algorithms and machine learning, transforms conversations about issues like the public services card.

Thread. The Data Protection Commissioner is before the Justice Committee right now and we expect the committee will be raising the #PublicServicesCard and the DPC’s investigation into it. Tune in here to watch: oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-… While waiting for the public session, I'll congratulate @thekhrc for their Moday win when Kenya’s high court suspended the mandatory roll out of NIIMS. The #NIIMSCase deals with a national identity registration system with parallel data protection concerns to the #PSC @INCLOnet