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Sex workers worried government-funded support app only exists to gather data

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗
A government-backed app offering support to sex workers in Scotland has come under scrutiny by the very community it is supposed to help, after concerns about potential privacy and data collection problems were raised. Scottish community safety charity Sacro was awarded the £1,000,000 fund in March to launch an app for the 1,500 sex workers in Scotland who find their clients online. The app was built to recognise the decline in physical street prostitution and offer support to those who might not work in traditional urban hotspots for sex work, in close proximity to drop-in health centres in Scotland’s cities. […]
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