https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📝" title="Memo" aria-label="Emoji: Memo">Today we release a paper warning about the exploitation of the #COVIDー19 pandemic to build on existing counter terrorism infrastructure to further infiltrate public health and private life.
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Here are the key points [https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index">thread]:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Right-pointing triangle" aria-label="Emoji: Right-pointing triangle"> The counter-terror sector is weaving its toxic policies into the realm of public health, deeply tying #data control, #surveillance and security to the public sector;
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Right-pointing triangle" aria-label="Emoji: Right-pointing triangle"> Aspects of a proposed centralised contact tracing system will be outsourced to known rights abusers, such as Serco, G4S, and Palantir;
#NHSX
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Right-pointing triangle" aria-label="Emoji: Right-pointing triangle">PREVENT purveyors seeking to embed & #39;Counter Extremism& #39; policy into the home, and extend online #surveillance to close down #digital spaces of organising;
#EndPREVENT
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Right-pointing triangle" aria-label="Emoji: Right-pointing triangle">Broadening the " #extremism" net by criminalising "conspiracy theories" as a new kind of illegal discourse, to silence criticism of the government.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">Concerned people and groups must resist this together. CAGE continue to guard the rights of communities and all those impacted by security abuse.
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