Superbly put Shami Chakrabarti @BBCNewsnight

Adequate social security is not a political gift, it is a human right. https://t.co/nRgpeCOVGe

🚨 In a 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 busy newsweek a Labour(!!!) gov is trying to grab outrageous powers to turn the welfare system into a digital surveillance state - under the guise of a crackdown on "benefits cheats". Social security will become a tool for unprecedented state intrusion...

Thanks to campaigning from Parliamentarians, CSOs, and the public, DWP’s attempts to spy on bank accounts were quashed in 2024. I wrote about why we need to keep this momentum 2025 ⤵️

⚠️High-tech surveillance practices are spreading to workplaces up and down the country. We published a pathbreaking new report exposing these practices & telling politicians what they need to do to turn the tide on excessive workplace snooping. Read⤵️ https://t.co/HwmbmJu7Dh

Kendall’s comments show new bill to order banks to ‘spy’ on benefit claimants will be based on Tory plans @BigBrotherWatch @GMCDP @DisRightsUK @CampaignFDJ https://t.co/IpDEHBY5Ql

🚨NEWS🚨 'DWP Plans to Spy on Claimants' Bank Accounts Will Pile Misery onto Disabled People' DR UK in @BigIssue Our social security system is meant to support, not punish us. https://t.co/1CJONVzy7z

⚠️"We risk facing a future where workplace surveillance becomes the norm and employers feel that the recording of every move, click and keystroke is legitimate" @susannahcopson writes about the shocking rise in employee snooping Read in @thetimes ⤵️ https://t.co/5QeKjQjXA2

In the past, DWP software has wrongly flagged more than 200,000 people for suspected fraud. Giving them more powers to monitor our bank accounts will further erode our civil liberties. We co-wrote to @leicesterliz to stop these policy proposals. https://t.co/hBPx1dV4EP

We are co-signatories of the letter opposing the measures to spy on disabled people's bank accounts contained in the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Our response to Starmer’s bank spying plans in “Fraud, Error and Debt Bill” in full: https://t.co/NeIEh78lt3 I also want to give context & explain why this is *exactly the same* so far as the Tory Govt’s benefits bank spying powers Labour criticised & we defeated just 3m ago🧵

Starmer is to announce a new fraud, error and debt bill to ‘modernise the DWP’. This ie already covered by existing legislation. It will terrify people and perpetuate the public’s misperception benefits fraud is a huge problem in this country. Reminder: PIP fraud rate is 0%.

⚠️Starmer plans to resurrect powers to spy on ALL our of bank accounts. This financial snooper’s charter is "intrusive, unjustified and risks Horizon-style injustice on a mass scale” - @silkiecarlo Read⤵️ https://t.co/YcKekhXsFY

“These new powers could see millions deprived of the presumption of innocence" ⚖️ @DisRightsUK have slammed the government's planned crackdown on welfare fraud. Read more ⤵️ https://t.co/qJpOAgpCuB

Please no…. This sounds worrying like the Sunak govt’s mass bank spying plans that we defeated a couple of months ago! It’s packaged as ‘targeted’ BUT sounds like the same duty on banks to monitor claimants - they can only do so if scanning all accounts https://t.co/AHyNf5UbCO

The government wants to spy on our bank accounts… again? absolutely obscene

Join us! 3pm today Liverpool Hilton #LabourConference2024 to discuss workers’ rights, AI & surveillance with the launch of our NEW (terrifying) report on UK “Bossware”. With @DawnButlerBrent; Anna Thomas OBE of @FutureWorkInst; @IWGBunion; @CWUnews (No conference pass needed)

Join the tech debate of the moment at #LabConf24 - will @jreynoldsMP Employment Rights Bill restrain the alarming growth of surveillance tech in the workplace? We’ll launch NEW research & discuss with an incredible panel inc @DawnButlerBrent; CEO of @FutureWorkInst ; @IWGBunion

⚠️Former Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for AI-scanning powers in the welfare system "Mistakes can determine whether claimants can afford to feed themselves, heat their houses, or pay for essential medication" - @susannahcopson Read | @BigIssue⤵️ https://t.co/pSp5RwYOok