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THE Home Office is to spend millions more in taxpayers’ cash to track the movements of refugees and asylum-seekers in Britain.
It has quietly announced a six-month extension to a 24-hour global positioning system (GPS) surveillance scheme despite the failure of year-long pilot project to prove it serves any useful purpose.
The surveillance scheme targets anyone who arrives by “unnecessary and dangerous routes” to Britain, meaning via small boats or lorries.
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
A joint statement from Derby Indian Workers’ Association and Vox Feminarum/Women’s Voices
