“MS is unable to specify what data originating from SPA will be processed outside the UK for support functions,” said the SPA in a detailed DPIA created for its use of O365. “To try and mitigate this risk, SPA asked to see … [the transfer risk assessments]. MS declined to provide the assessments.”

Without this information, the policing bodies are unable to satisfy the law enforcement-specific data protection rules laid out in Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA18), which places strict limits on the transfer of policing data outside the UK.

“Entities that previously enabled and profited from Palestinian elimination and erasure within the economy of occupation, instead of disengaging are now involved in the economy of genocide.”

“After October 2023, long-standing systems of control, exploitation and dispossession metamorphosed into economic, technological and political infrastructures mobilised to inflict mass violence and immense destruction,” she said.

She said that if the companies supplying these technologies had conducted the proper human rights due diligence – including IBM, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Palantir – they would have divested “long ago” from involvement in Israel’s illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

In an investigative report examining “the role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza”, Francesca Albanese outlined the key role the technology sector plays in “sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project"

Includes comment from @elkeschwarz.bsky.social and @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, who kindly took time out of their days to speak with me about the developments and share their insights

In one case that was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the technical errors with data held by the Home Office were so severe that it found a breach of UK data protection law

Each also described how the “inordinate amount of stress” associated with not being able to reliably prove their immigration status has been made worse by a lack of responsiveness and help from the Home Office, which they accused of essentially leaving them in the lurch

Those affected by the eVisa system’s technical failings told Computer Weekly, on condition of anonymity, that the entire experience has been “anxiety-inducing” and described how their lives had been thrust into “uncertainty” by the transition