Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Exclusive: privacy and rights groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillance Ministers have been urged not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare fraud by launching mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accounts. Disability rights, poverty, pensioner and privacy groups fear the government is poised to deliver a “snooper’s charter” by using…