This briefing paper traces the emerging shape of security and surveillance in Britain under the Coronavirus pandemic, and warns about organisations exploiting it to build on existing counter terrorism infrastructure, to further infiltrate public health and more aspects of private life. The paper emphasises that new Coronavirus laws risk normalising ‘exceptional’ powers, and could reshape surveillance and policing for the long term, and deeply tie them to the public sector. &nbsp; <strong> “Exploiting a Pandemic: The Security Industry’s Race to Infiltrate Public Health” , outlines the following key concerns:</strong> &nbsp; <ul> <li>Aspects of a proposed centralised contact tracing system will be outsourced to known rights abusers, such as <i>Serco</i> and <i>G4S</i>, and third party firms like <i>Palantir, </i>which has been solicited in US police raids on migrant communities;</li> <li>Right-wing groups such as <i>Policy Exchange</i> and the <i>Henry Jackson Society</i> are trying to weave their toxic securitised approaches into the realm of public health for material and political profit;</li> <li>PREVENT purveyors are trying to remain relevant through attempts to embed the policy into the home, while hinting at online surveillance to close down digital spaces of organising;</li> <li>The CCE’s latest trick to criminalise "conspiracy theories" as a new kind of "extremism" underlines its true purpose to control discourse and thought, as well as silence criticism of the government.</li> </ul> &nbsp; [fusion_button link="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CAGE-Exploiting-a-Pandemic-The-Security-Industrys-Race-to-Infiltrate-Public-Health-2020.pdf" text_transform="" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="yes" shape="pill" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download paper here[/fusion_button]

This briefing paper traces the emerging shape of security and surveillance in Britain under the Coronavirus pandemic, and warns about organisations exploiting it to build on existing counter terrorism infrastructure, to further infiltrate public health and more aspects of private life. The paper emphasises that new Coronavirus laws risk normalising ‘exceptional’ powers, and could reshape surveillance and policing for the long term, and deeply tie them to the public sector. &nbsp; <strong> “Exploiting a Pandemic: The Security Industry’s Race to Infiltrate Public Health” , outlines the following key concerns:</strong> &nbsp; <ul> <li>Aspects of a proposed centralised contact tracing system will be outsourced to known rights abusers, such as <i>Serco</i> and <i>G4S</i>, and third party firms like <i>Palantir, </i>which has been solicited in US police raids on migrant communities;</li> <li>Right-wing groups such as <i>Policy Exchange</i> and the <i>Henry Jackson Society</i> are trying to weave their toxic securitised approaches into the realm of public health for material and political profit;</li> <li>PREVENT purveyors are trying to remain relevant through attempts to embed the policy into the home, while hinting at online surveillance to close down digital spaces of organising;</li> <li>The CCE’s latest trick to criminalise "conspiracy theories" as a new kind of "extremism" underlines its true purpose to control discourse and thought, as well as silence criticism of the government.</li> </ul> &nbsp; [fusion_button link="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CAGE-Exploiting-a-Pandemic-The-Security-Industrys-Race-to-Infiltrate-Public-Health-2020.pdf" text_transform="" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="yes" shape="pill" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download paper here[/fusion_button]

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This briefing paper outlines how the government’s proposed CV Bill will give the state far-reaching powers to dismantle the fundamental rights of individuals and communities.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">While decisive action is essential to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, such an approach means that the Bill also poses a long term threat to the social fabric of the UK.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Extra powers must be subject to strict and effective oversight and must end within a reasonable time around the end of the pandemic.</span> <strong>CAGE raises the following concerns about the Bill: </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It allows the state to detain, isolate, assess and force disclosures about infections from individuals – as well as making non-compliance an offence;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It consists of vague terms around the banning of events, gatherings and meetings, which can be easily extended to outlaw protests, shut down political activism, and undermine freedom of association;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 allow for easier detention and medication-without-consent of individuals, an alarming development in the context of the high rate of deaths in mental health detention.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most alarmingly, the Bill includes clauses that allows it to be extended, modified and effectively made permanent in the future.</span></li> </ul> &nbsp; [fusion_button link="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/032020_CAGE_CoronavirusBill_Briefing_FINAL.pdf" title="" target="_blank" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download the paper here[/fusion_button] &nbsp; <h3>View online:</h3> <p style="text-align: center;">[pdf-embedder url="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/032020_CAGE_CoronavirusBill_Briefing_FINAL.pdf"]</p>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This briefing paper outlines how the government’s proposed CV Bill will give the state far-reaching powers to dismantle the fundamental rights of individuals and communities.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">While decisive action is essential to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, such an approach means that the Bill also poses a long term threat to the social fabric of the UK.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Extra powers must be subject to strict and effective oversight and must end within a reasonable time around the end of the pandemic.</span> <strong>CAGE raises the following concerns about the Bill: </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It allows the state to detain, isolate, assess and force disclosures about infections from individuals – as well as making non-compliance an offence;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It consists of vague terms around the banning of events, gatherings and meetings, which can be easily extended to outlaw protests, shut down political activism, and undermine freedom of association;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 allow for easier detention and medication-without-consent of individuals, an alarming development in the context of the high rate of deaths in mental health detention.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most alarmingly, the Bill includes clauses that allows it to be extended, modified and effectively made permanent in the future.</span></li> </ul> &nbsp; [fusion_button link="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/032020_CAGE_CoronavirusBill_Briefing_FINAL.pdf" title="" target="_blank" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download the paper here[/fusion_button] &nbsp; <h3>View online:</h3> <p style="text-align: center;">[pdf-embedder url="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/032020_CAGE_CoronavirusBill_Briefing_FINAL.pdf"]</p>

Following the widespread condemnation of the PREVENT policy and the subsequent launch of an ‘independent review’, widely recognised as being a ‘whitewash’, CAGE is offering a tangible, and practical way forward beyond PREVENT. The Beyond PREVENT report outlines clear actions that provide a framework that will help Britain foster healthy and safe societies, without antagonising communities. The key principle for peaceful co-existence core to the paper is the need to move away from securitised approaches and policy, both locally and internationally. - This report is a challenge and carefully thought-out response to former Security Minister Ben Wallace’s statement: “Whenever I hear people criticise Prevent and I ask, “Okay, what would you do?”, they just describe Prevent, and they come back to the bit about the Prevent brand being tainted”; - 95% of PREVENT referrals are false positives on the programme’s own terms, requiring no further intervention – proof that the policy is ineffective and toxic, and does not need a mere ‘review’ or ‘improvement’. - The notion of improving PREVENT only lends itself to a dead-end discussion that ends with PREVENT or PREVENT-like policy solutions. In contrast, the Beyond PREVENT paper: - Offers solutions based on structural and policy changes, to the root causes of violence; - Overwhelming calls for building healthy, safe societies without securitisation around beliefs and behaviour; - Provides an excellent opportunity to break the impasse on PREVENT with new innovative thinking

Following the widespread condemnation of the PREVENT policy and the subsequent launch of an ‘independent review’, widely recognised as being a ‘whitewash’, CAGE is offering a tangible, and practical way forward beyond PREVENT. The Beyond PREVENT report outlines clear actions that provide a framework that will help Britain foster healthy and safe societies, without antagonising communities. The key principle for peaceful co-existence core to the paper is the need to move away from securitised approaches and policy, both locally and internationally. - This report is a challenge and carefully thought-out response to former Security Minister Ben Wallace’s statement: “Whenever I hear people criticise Prevent and I ask, “Okay, what would you do?”, they just describe Prevent, and they come back to the bit about the Prevent brand being tainted”; - 95% of PREVENT referrals are false positives on the programme’s own terms, requiring no further intervention – proof that the policy is ineffective and toxic, and does not need a mere ‘review’ or ‘improvement’. - The notion of improving PREVENT only lends itself to a dead-end discussion that ends with PREVENT or PREVENT-like policy solutions. In contrast, the Beyond PREVENT paper: - Offers solutions based on structural and policy changes, to the root causes of violence; - Overwhelming calls for building healthy, safe societies without securitisation around beliefs and behaviour; - Provides an excellent opportunity to break the impasse on PREVENT with new innovative thinking

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