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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harry Davies

Home Office faces legal claims over seizure of asylum seekers’ phones

Mobile phone
The watchdog found a blanket policy of seizing thousands of phones caused “significant harm”. Photograph: Lauren Hurley/PA

The Home Office faces a wave of legal claims after the UK’s surveillance watchdog found a blanket policy of seizing thousands of asylum seekers’ mobile phones caused “significant harm”.

The Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office has written to a large group of asylum seekers to notify them of their right to bring a case before a specialist surveillance tribunal.

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