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POLICE forces across Britain are secretly downloading smartphone data from innocent people without obtaining warrants or even notifying them, campaigners revealed yesterday.
Privacy International (PI) said police are using “highly intrusive technology” to extract data from people’s phones “on a questionable legal basis” and called for an immediate independent review into the “widespread, intrusive [and] secretive practice.”
The campaign group also said that Britain’s “serious problems” with “discriminatory policing” could be exacerbated by use of the technology, which could “disproportionately and unfairly” affect ethnic minorities and political activists.
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
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
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