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20 August 2024

EU watchdog intervention forces Frontex to improve transparency

Despite its reluctance to reform, the EU border agency improved its freedom of information processes after an intervention from the EU Ombudsman.

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09 August 2024

UK: Racist violence does not justify proposed expansion of police surveillance technology

Following the racist pogroms that broke out across England at the end of July and beginning of August, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a range of new policing measures - including a proposal for "wider deployment of facial recognition technology." A letter signed by more than two dozen organisations, including Statewatch, says that an expansion of live facial recognition "would make our country an outlier in the democratic world" and calls for the plan to be dropped.

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