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- The UK Home Office added critical social-media posts about the Prevent programme to a secret database.
- The Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) logged nearly 80 negative posts between March 2024 and February 2025.
- Jacob Smith of Rights & Security International forced the Home Office to release the database after a year-long FOI appeal.
- Critics say the monitoring undermines UK freedom of expression and the right to protest.