The open letter also argues that the UK Home Office failed to assess or mitigate:
🔴 Risk of face images being used for matching, automated checks or shared with third parties that may combine them with other datasets.
🔴 Risks to people without smartphones or who are digitally excluded because of disability, their age or socio-economic reasons.
🔴 Risks to people subject to partner coercion.
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"“In its DPIA, the [UK] Home Office failed to assess the risks that a digital only scheme brings."
“If the Home Office had identified some of these risks [of the eVisa scheme], migrants may not have experienced the same levels of distress and hardship that we have seen over the last year."
"The Information Commissioner's Office must investigate.”
🗣️ @sarahalsherif for ORG.
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The UK Home Office can take immediate steps to reduce the anxiety that migrants are experiencing.
Migrants need the safety of a physical or digital back up so they can prove their status in any circumstances.
Write to your MP to stop the eVisa scandal ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-allow-physical-proof-immigration-status
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@openrightsgroup Sounds like a blueprint for the disaster in waiting that is the digital ID scheme
