The UKβs privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a personβs location.
Ankle tags that constantly log a personβs coordinates are part of a growing cadre of experimental surveillance tools that countries around the world are trying out on new arrivals.
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is βimperative that we have access to the data.β