UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program

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The Home Office tried to keep the paperwork private until an appeal brought it into the light. If you are a British citizen and you criticize a government program online, that criticism can be collected and stored by a government-linked body. At least that seems to be the upshot of the actions of the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU), “a body linked to the Home Office," that has been keeping “observations” of those who speak against the government’s Prevent counter-extremism program on the internet.

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