Susannah Copson

all things welfare, tech and human rights | formerly @bigbrotherwatch | views my own

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Superbly put Shami Chakrabarti

@BBCNewsnight

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

Adequate social security is not a political gift, it is a human right.

https://t.co/nRgpeCOVGe

[Jake Hurfurt @JHurfurt]

🚨 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...

[Susannah Copson @susannahcopson]

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 ⤵️

[Big Issue @BigIssue]

👀 If the DWP spies on bank accounts, it would effectively criminalise poverty, treating people as suspects just for being in the social security system, writes Susannah Copson from Big Brother Watch.

https://t.co/HWJmUpdyez

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️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

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

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

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨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

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️"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

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

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

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

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

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’ https://t.co/EJafhtqoSe

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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🧵

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

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%.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️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

[Big Issue @BigIssue]

“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

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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

[Susannah Copson @susannahcopson]

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

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Sir Keir Starmer is to announce plans to “root out” benefit fraudsters by giving investigators new powers to access information about people’s bank accounts ⬇️ https://t.co/PiFUQotxr9

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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)

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️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