Security News > 2023 > May > Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract

We hear Privacy International and a few other campaign groups set up camp outside Capita's AGM in London yesterday protesting Capita's involvement as an outsourcer in a UK government GPS tracking contract.

Privacy International has previously complained that the UK Home Office and the MoJ continue to "Throw money at procurement of GPS tags to monitor migrants... despite the fact only 1 percent of migrants abscond from immigration bail," citing a statistic it obtained via a Freedom of Information request [PDF].

The charities say Capita's delivery of GPS tracking services "Allows the Home Office to monitor the location of non-British citizens as part of its hostile environment immigration policy."

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Capita already oversees an enormous array of multi million pound government contracts and has been named one of the UK's "Strategic suppliers" to its public sector by spending research firm Tussell.

According to Tussell's research, the UK spent £938 million with Capita across various tech contracts in 2021, although that was a 12 percent drop from 2020.

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