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We’ve been put on a watchlist 🚨
“It is deeply concerning to see the Prevent duty being used to enable the monitoring of people and organisations simply because they are critical of the programme.
That raises serious questions about freedom of expression and the right to dissent and protest [in the UK].”
💬 @sarahlasoye for ORG.
https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/25/social-media-users-end-government-list-speaking-prevent-29649220/
We’re clear that “Prevent has expanded far beyond its stated aim of identifying people considered “vulnerable to radicalisation”, and has increasingly been used to justify extensive surveillance.”
Criticising the programme for its many faults shouldn’t lead to getting put on a database.
#Prevent #surveillance #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
BTW this is the ‘offending’ post.
It relates to our report, ‘Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: how unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation’.
The UK government should address our recommendations rather than double down on yet more surveillance.
#Prevent #surveillance #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
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We denounce the “troubling lack of transparency about what happens to the information gathered through this social media monitoring [by the Standards and Compliance Unit]:
how long it is retained, who it is shared with, and ultimately what the [UK] government is using it for.”
#Prevent #surveillance #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol