Open Rights Group on Nostr: Pre-payment cards given to UK asylum seekers by the Home Office are collecting ...

Pre-payment cards given to UK asylum seekers by the Home Office are collecting purchasing data with restrictive rules.

This creates 'new modes of social control' with detrimental impacts on well-being.

New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow ⬇️

#dataprotection #migrants #privacy #digitalprivacy #ukpolitics

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-prepayment-technology-socially-financially-isolating.html