The official narrative  behind data-driven surveillance technology promises a new era of “impartial”, “scientific”, “evidence-based” policing, sewn together by the techno-futurist allure of automated algorithms and their supposed apolitical neutrality. The reality of the vast upsurge in UK surveillance since 2020  is one of alarming privacy invasion and intense racialisation, especially against racial and ethnic minorities. Tools like the now-defunct Metropolitan Police's Gan

In the latest move to curb immigration fears in the face of Reform UK’s extraordinary polling performances, the government has announced plans to introduce mandatory digital ID cards. The scheme will be rolled out “by the end of parliament,”  and has done little to improve the government’s reputation for cracking down on civil liberties. The digital cards will be needed to prove a person’s right to live and work in the UK but will not have to be carried all the time. Plans pu

Alongside Trump’s continued ICE raids across America, his Administration is attacking immigration from a more insidious angle:...