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Daniella Lock is a researcher currently completing a PhD on human rights and surveillance.
Last month, a Welsh BLM group disbanded after an attempted police infiltration. It’s proof that police spying poses an existential threat to our social movements – especially since the state has just vastly expanded those powers.
The Tories’ racist anti-protest bill isn’t yet law. We can still fight against its worst elements – and against the creeping authoritarianism that produced it.
Tonight, MPs will vote on the Police Crackdown Bill – a piece of legislation which threatens a fundamental principle of our democracy: the right to meaningful protest against the actions of the powerful.
Labour’s plan to introduce a ‘Charter of Digital Rights’ is an urgently needed response to corporate surveillance, algorithmic interference in politics and the data-for-profit industry.