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You’ll find info here about Prevent as a data collection point for surveillance, its link to ‘watch lists’, and its invasion of privacy and data rights.

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Violence-fixated children referred to Prevent, and then sent back again – Children’s Commissioner demands reform of anti-extremism programme

Two-thirds of children referred to Prevent by schools and colleges were returned to education settings – and in almost all of these the cases (93 per cent) the children received no support from Prevent. The Children’s Commissioner’s latest report draws on new data, interviews with professionals and new analysis of official figures to reveal the journeys taken by children in the government’s counter extremism programme. The study describes a system with a great deal of worry about children, seeking somewhere for them to get help, or someone to hold responsibility for them, and not finding it. Dame Rachel de Souza recommends that children currently sent to Prevent should be assessed through local safeguarding teams – which should include Counter Terrorism Policing – and directed to the right support. Read more on The Children’s Commissioner’s website. Related… Babies and Muslims lost in a flood of Home Office statistics on Prevent strategy

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AI-Powered Surveillance and the Prevent strategy

“When states transfer more power to private entities, the public loses. The government becomes a body designed to service the needs and interests of profit-seeking private entities rather than its citizens. Worse, citizens lose much of their power to hold governments accountable: the government abdicates and transfers responsibility to private actors against which citizens have fewer rights.”[1] This piece examines the creeping infrastructure of AI-powered surveillance in the UK and its implications for the Prevent strategy’s pre-crime framework. Digital ID, Palantir and Oracle In January of this year, the UK government dropped its plans for a mandatory digital ID. This came after almost 3 million signatures on a parliamentary petition opposing digital IDs.[2] Several corporations were in talks of implementing the digital ID apparatus. Palantir Technologies, named after the all-seeing stone in The Lord of the Rings,[3] dropped out of the bid back in October, citing a lack of public […]

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Father shares advice on getting son’s data deleted after Prevent referral is closed

It has been just over a year since my 10-year-old son was reported to Prevent for an essay he wrote on Palestine. After the referral was deemed to have been unnecessary, it has taken us this long to confirm that his data has been removed from all but one security-related database. To be honest, I don’t think the headmaster and teachers realised the full impact of Prevent and just how much would be involved and the impact it would have on us and our son. I remember the headmaster clearly saying that it was the first time that he had ever encountered this issue, and so I think from his perspective, he was just trying to do it by the book. But we now know that the local Prevent team had simply advised him to go ahead and make the Prevent referral.  Since then, he has been making much more […]

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BBC: Remove harmful online content now, says Southport MP

Southport’s MP Patrick Hurley has urged online platforms to remove harmful online content immediately in the wake of the knife attack carried out last year in the town. Hurley said the removal of harmful content “needs to happen now” and online platforms should not wait until the Online Safety Act comes into force in March. The act requires social media platforms to take “proportionate measures” to protect users from illegal content. But the government said there was “no justification for waiting for laws to kick in” and wants platforms to act now. A letter sent to technology companies by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said access to harmful content was “unacceptable” and firms had a “moral responsibility to act”. Read the full article at the BBC. Related… Schools Week: School Prevent referrals rise, but pupils get less support (News, 2025)

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UN: Games recruitment grounds for extremists, prompting collaboration between CT and gaming companies

Digital gaming platforms are becoming recruitment grounds for extremists, says the UN, prompting an “unprecedented collaboration between counter terrorism specialists and gaming companies”. As the gaming industry usurps Hollywood in sheer monetary value – it coined $196 billion in 2023 – UN News’s Sarah Daly sat down with Steven Siqueira, Deputy Director of the UN Counter Terrorism Centre (part of the counter-terrorism office, UNOCT) and Leif Villadsen, Acting Director of the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). The senior officials hosted a landmark event on the issue called New Quest Unlocked (link to full conference as recorded via livestream on UN TV) held earlier in December, which brought together gaming companies, policymakers and researchers to address violent extremism in gaming spaces. You can read the full interview on the UN News site. Related… UK: Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism usher in ‘whole society’ surveillance (News, 2020)

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