🚨UK tax authorities forced to re-evaluate their policy of suspending benefits without due diligence after 23,500 families had their child benefit payments wrongly cut.
the Guardian
HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error
Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK
Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity. While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control. Learn more:
Privacy International
Why Privacy Matters to People with Disabilities
Privacy is a universal right, but for people with disabilities, it’s often compromised in the very systems designed to support them. Accessing es...
In England, children are tracked from birth through education databases that record their lives in detail. These systems are vast, permanent, and invisible to most families.
Privacy International
From Playground to Database: child data in education
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape â...
ðŸ•·ï¸ A real life horror scenario: the ruling political party repurposes data collected by the state for administering public services to spread its own campaign messages. In the run up to Pakistan’s 2024 elections, concerns were raised by voters that they were receiving automated calls and WhatsApp messages from political parties, including from the ruling party. Read more in Digital Rights Foundation's report: 📄.pdf image
ðŸ•¸ï¸ A real life horror scenario: a failure in the digital voting system requires postponement of an election. ðŸ•·ï¸ You think this is a spooky joke? Think twice. In 2023, the Electoral Commission in Nigeria stated that it was pushing back polling due to problems with the digital voting system:
the Guardian
Nigeria postpones state elections amid dispute over presidential vote
Electoral commission says it is pushing back polling due to problems with digital voting system
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