UK Data Protection Digital Information #DPDI Bill House of Lords Committee stage. More robust scrutiny here than UK House of Commons. Good that our CRISP work ref'd but same govt arguments on #surveillance oversight remain weak & unevidenced Lords Committee on Justice and Home Affairs hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-04-…

Day 8 - #FacilitateProtests

🗣️Professor Pete Fussey of University of Essex emphasises the importance of clear guidance for #LawEnforcement on the use of #digitaltech in the context of p/ protests, to ensure their facilitation & protection of #HumanRights .

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Very pleased to have collaborated on this initiative with UN Human Rights UN Office on Drugs & Crime Daragh Murray and others.

1.Each yr we see 100s of killings for exercising the right to #protest . To avoid this we need proper tools to facilitate protests according to int/ standards rather than to suppress them.
I’m encouraged by positive feedback& hope all will join forces for implementing these tools.

Second event of the day discussing the launch of #UN human rights standards for policing protest. Focus: police tech & human rights. Co-org with
UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association Dr Wendy O'Brien
Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights Swiss MFA
Costa Rica ONU Ginebra,
Austria UN Geneva Daragh Murray University of Essex - streaming;

Happening today: looking forward to presenting our collaboration #UN human rights standards for policing. Presenting with collaborations team UN Special Procedures UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association UN Office on Drugs & Crime at #HRC55 . 13:30 CET Palais des Nations, XVII, streaming details 👇

I started my last interactive dialogue today w/ States & CSOs at #HRC55 to present my tools aimed at assisting law enforcement better facilitate p/ protests. Tune in to watch the continuation of the discussion tomorrow 7/3 at 10AM CET. WATCH ▶️ webtv.un.org/en

Thanks to Shanti Das for The Observer The Guardian interview. Retail #facialrecognition #surveillance concentrated in poorer areas. Further evidence, if ever needed, that #surveillance gaze falls unevenly. Undermines utilitarian & 'nothing to hide' tropes theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

📢We’ve published our letter to the Home Secretary on Live Facial Recognition (LFR) Technology.

📜Read the letter and the conclusions and recommendations in full in the appendix here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

➡️More on the Committee’s work here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/519/…

The Guardian: Outrage over police access to 50m
driving licences to run face checks #TomorrowsPapersToday

Interesting to compare how other democracies address #facialrecognition to UK. Also interesting it takes litigation for surveillance users to accept established scientific facts (re bias), rather than pretending they don’t exist or that inconvenient realities aren’t relevant