Roundtable on resisting the Digital Hostile Environment: 30 July 11 AM-1 PM
The government has ambitious plans to digitalise the entire immigration system; starting with EU citizens, whose settled or pre-settled status will be verifiable only through digital means, exposing them immediately to data protection and discrimination risks.
This is the beginning of introducing a central database containing all migrants’ sensitive information, which will be accessible by multiple government departments, including HMRC and DWP, as well as healthcare providers and private individual employers, landlords and potentially others.
This process aims to digitise the Hostile Environment checks, and more efficiently exclude anybody the Home Office deems, rightly or wrongly, not to have the right to be in the country from essential services and support.
We believe this represents huge risks on multiple levels to all migrants’ rights and must be resisted.
We invite you to join us for an …