Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.

It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.

This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.

Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.

#privacy #migrant #ukpolitics

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/migrants-stripped-of-smartphones-ahead-of-rwanda-flights/

Migrants stripped of smartphones ahead of Rwanda flights

Removal centres handing out phones without internet access to limit attempts to get around detention

The Telegraph