Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract
We hear Privacy International and a few other campaign groups set up camp outside Capita's AGM in London yesterday protesting Capita's involvement as an outsourcer in a UK government GPS tracking contract.to the London shareholders meeting and were distributing leaflets outside, claim the government's electronic tagging project amounts to"racialized surveillance.
Lucie Audibert, a lawyer at the organization, added that those who are accused of criminal offences – which she said could"indeed include a breach of immigration laws" – fall under the"mandatory duty" of Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016,"under which the Home OfficeShe added:"On top of that, the Home Office can decide to tag anyone without leave to remain, whether they've committed a criminal offence or not, if they grant them immigration bail and decide...
A Home Office spokesperson told us:"Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.
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