Lizzie Dearden

‘Criminals will go unpunished’ after victim services cuts, Reeves warned | Rape and sexual assault

The government has cut millions of pounds in funding for victims’ services, prompting warnings that “criminals will go unpunished” unless it urgently changes its position. The Victims’ Commissioner has written a letter to chancellor Rachel Reeves, shared exclusively with the […]

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Home Office contractor collected data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances | Data protection

The Home Office has been accused of collecting data on “hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting British citizens” while conducting financial checks on migrants. A report by a private contractor for a routine immigration application was mistakenly sent to a charity

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‘Authoritarian and heavy-handed’: call for investigation into vetting of experts by UK civil servants | Privacy

The information watchdog has been asked to investigate “authoritarian” government vetting that caused speakers to be banned from official events for criticising ministers. Two experts, who discovered that civil servants had combed through years of social media posts to judge

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