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PM could be ejected from Downing Street if Welsh Labour loses Senedd elections in May, First Minister says
EVERY Facebook message, tweet and email sent in Britain is monitored by spooks, Britain’s spy chief Charles Farr was forced to admit yesterday.
Mass surveillance by Britain’s intelligence agency GCHQ was exposed in a 48-page document published yesterday by campaign groups challenging the practices in court.
It was obtained by Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International and other groups in their legal bid to reveal the extent of GCHQ’s spying on their online activity.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
