🚨BREAKING: Two cruise ships set to house 1,000 migrants have not been able to dock in the UK and have had to return to the company that owns them. (Sky News)
The boats were refused permission to dock at Liverpool and Edinburgh.
🥳🥳✊ #SmallBoats#UKPolitics#RefugeesWelcome#FuckTheTories
The Court of Appeal has confirmed the Immigration Exception is UNLAWFUL in the case brought by ORG and @the3million to defend migrants' access to their data.
The UK Home Office can't sidestep Parliament when using data to profile migrants.
We need to talk about ULEZ (UK). But not for the reasons you think.
The real cause of concern is its use of automatic number plate recognition and the free access to this data given to the Met Police for surveillance.
If UK politicians truly cares about the state of air pollution and the environment, they can’t ignore how the fear of surveillance could undermine climate goals.
“While the UK government has admitted it’s not possible to safely scan all of our private messages, it has granted Ofcom the powers to force tech companies to do so in the future.”
Radio 4 giving plenty of air time to the "poor police, give them their guns back" angle, while failing to say that commenting on a murder case that the CPS has judged to be prosecutable make it, by definition, sub judice, and SHOULD NOT be commented on by media, the police themselves and, most importantly, the Home Secretary.
Literally the definition of undermining the rule of law. #NoSurpriseThereThen#BBCBias#UKPolitics#MetPolice
"Some of my colleagues in government, they present themselves as patriots but they are indeed arsonists. They set this country alight. They pit communities against communities, and create these fires. That is not the job of government, the job of government is to keep us all safe."
Baroness Warsi,
Conservative Peer,
House of Lords,
U.K.
During the debate on the Online Safety Bill in the UK House of Lords, Lord Moylan laid out the dangers of the encryption-busting clause that threatens our privacy and security.
Take action to stop the spy clause as the Bill moves into its final stages.
The UK government intends to crush our ability to find out what personal data organisations hold about us, which is critical for us to use rights effectively.
The #DataGrabBill makes it easier for organisations to refuse to respond to a subject access request, including if it’s ‘too onerous for them’, and allows them to introduce fees.
Rights must be robust and enforceable. Otherwise we’re exposed to State and commercial whims.
So we are about to lose access to WhatsApp, Apple and Facebook in the UK. If it happens I cannot imagine what the reaction of the public will be [irony]?
Seriously what on earth are the Tories thinking? They are as reliant on these platforms as the rest of us. Do they think that the tech companies are bluffing and that the UK is too important a market to exit? If they do, they could be in for an awful shock.
The #DataGrabBill will let the UK government authorise international data transfers with reduced oversight, even if the country lacks enforceable rights or effective remedies.
It risks the UK-EU adequacy agreement for the free flow of data.
This deregulatory law is not only seriously damaging to our data rights, it'll have major economic consequences. Legal fees alone may be up to £1.6 billion.
“The British Medical Association (BMA) has said it is "very concerned" by a tribunal's finding that a doctor's participation in Just Stop Oil protests amounted to professional misconduct
… She said: [BMA] "Climate change has been declared the biggest potential health crisis in the world by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Data allows election campaigns to deliver micro-targeted messaging with the power to manipulate public opinion.
The #DPDIBill will make it easier for political parties to use our data and introduces a wide basis to process data for “democratic engagement” purposes.
Despite the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the government wants to lower accountability just as a UK general election looms.
The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."
We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.
Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court