According to Privacy International, the Department of Works and Pensions are subjecting suspected fraudulent benefit claimants to excessive surveillance techniques. This comes after the privacy campaigners analysed a 995-page document given to DWP surveillance teams, which explores the lengths taken to check fraudulent benefits claimants. Read the Privacy International article announcing the revelations.
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