Investigation report: Mobile phone data extraction by police forces in England and Wales

After massive criticism, the English data protection authority has taken a close look at the topic of mobile phone evaluations. The result: The police take too much data from the phones and store it for too long - often without a legal basis.

The British data protection authority ICO criticises the way law enforcement agencies deal with the smartphones of victims in England and Wales. For the 64-page investigation report (PDF), the authority had consulted law enforcement agencies, civil society groups and victims' associations. The investigation was preceded by numerous complaints from individuals and a report by Privacy International.

Mobile phones now store a large part of our lives, from address books to private photos and our private communications. In addition to this data, which often extends over long periods of time, phones store much more: browser histories, geodata, used Wifi's, health data and often the passwords and access data of their owners. This makes the phone one of the most interesting data sources for law enforcement agencies today.

👉🏼 PDF:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6953083/ICO-Phone-PD-Report.pdf

👉🏼 Digital stop and search: how the UK police can secretly download everything from your mobile phone
https://privacyinternational.org/report/1699/digital-stop-and-search-how-uk-police-can-secretly-download-everything-your-mobile

Read more 🇩🇪:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/england-polizei-handyauswertung-untersuchung/

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The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity

A digital ID that proves immunity will raise serious human rights issues. And the failure of the digital ID industry to deal with the issues of exclusion, exploitation and discrimination puts the entire industry under question.

👀 Key findings 👀

👉🏼 'Immunity passports' are a theoretical credential - most likely digital - that someone can prove that they have either had the virus and recovered, or have had a vaccination.

👉🏼 Immunity passports are being hyped as a solution to ending lockdowns around the world by actors including the proponents of digital identity; the digital identity industry; think-tanks; and the travel industry.

👉🏼 Yet there is currently no scientific basis for these measures, as highlighted by the WHO. The nature of what information would be held on an immunity passport is currently unknown.

👉🏼 The social risks of immunity passports are great: it serves as a route to discrimination and exclusion, particularly if the powers to view these passports falls on people's employers, or the police.

👉🏼 The digital identity industry - pushing their own products as immunity passport solutions - is failing to protect against these harms: they are interested in building wider digital identity systems, based on their pre-existing models, rather than developing a genuine solution to the risks of these passports.

Immunity Passports have become a much hyped tool to cope with this pandemic and the economic crisis. Essentially, with immunity passports those who are 'immune' to the virus would have some kind of certified document - whether physical or digital. This 'passport' would give them rights and privileges that other members of the community do not have.

👀 👉🏼 read more:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4074/looming-disaster-immunity-passports-and-digital-identity

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The European Court of Human Rights' judgment on the 10 Human Rights Organisations case is due on 25 May 2021 (@ECHR_CEDH).

We sat down with @Snowden last year to discuss what this case means for surveillance not only in the UK, but around the world. Watch here to get up to date!

This case was made possible because of Ed Snowden’s disclosures in 2013, and through the joint effort of 9 other human rights organisations.
And more: in 2017 our case was joined with those of @BigBrotherWatch and @TBIJ - there is many of us waiting!

You can learn more about the case here:
https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/10-human-rights-organisations-v-united-kingdom​

Donate to support our work to protect privacy around the world:
https://support.privacyinternational.org/​

A conversation with Edward Snowden about our legal case against mass surveillance :
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https://invidious.fdn.fr//watch?v=P4LpJxyD6Ew&local=true

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Q&A: Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights rules UK mass surveillance laws violate privacy and freedom of expression rights | Privacy International – https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4525/qa-grand-chamber-european-court-human-rights-rules-uk-mass-surveillance-laws-violate

In a nutshell, one of the world’s most important courts, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, found that certain UK laws about how intelligence agencies can spy on our internet communications breach our rights to privacy and freedom of expression. These surveillance laws have meant that the UK intelligence agencies can sweep up huge amounts of our internet communications (what is referred to in the law as a rather technical and harmless sounding ‘bulk interception’) in secret and without any oversight. This can include social media posts, emails sent and received, internet searches, websites you visit, and apps that you use.

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