Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity (www.theguardian.com)

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Sue Cowley, an education expert who runs training for schools, tweeted her response to the records she had been sent under her name this week: “Excuse my language but WTAF [what the actual fuck] are the DfE doing spending taxpayer money conducting surveillance on critics of government policy on here?”

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a potential GDPR breach? What genuine business grounds could they be storing that data on people? Even if it is in a spreadsheet on someone's computer, it's still not right.

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