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Tell us about some of the misinfor- mation about Grenfell… Toyin: When I think about misinformation that's going around the Grenfell campaign and when I say Grenfell campaign, you've got to think there's two sides to it. There's the families, survivors side of it, but there's also the state side, the institutions, the governments, the corporations that are involved in profiting and actually causing this massacre. There's been much misinformation. One of the campaigns that was launched very early in was the buying of property by the corporation of London for survivors. So the public had this idea that oh god, these sur- vivors have landed on their feet. They have these real penthouse apartments, they've got nothing to complain about. So it kind of diminished the idea of the whole loss of life, loss of property because it looked like actually being burnt in your home was actually leading to a windfall. But even if you take out the morality of that stupid argument, what we have in a situation out of 100, over 100, families only [a handful] of them have been rehoused. So a massive misinformation campaign and lead from the top. Theresa May came out saying that people are going to be rehoused in three weeks. She's backtracked now so they're going to be temporary, no, offered hous- ing. So again more misinformation. Have survivors been shut out the process? Toyin: . It would be wrong for me to say that the survivors have been shut out of the process. This government has recog- nised that the world is looking at them, and because of that they have tried to operate on a level of pseudo-transparency. So the survivors, residents and locals are invited into meetings, invited into consulta- tions, but what they say is just chucked in the bin straight afterwards. But there is this veneer of inclusiveness. We've got to un- derstand that is part of the PR campaign and it's not leading to any positive change, else the families would have been housed by now. What questions should we be asking ourselves after Grenfell? Angie: We have to ask ourselves what kind of people are we when we are ignoring, no longer caring, about people who live in these communities which are very strong and resilient communities. We have to ask ourselves why we've allowed govern- ment, and successive governments since Thatcher, to allow us to get into this posi- tion, into this situation today. There's been all these talks, these hackneyed terms of 'lessons learned' but will lessons really be learned? Will we be able to look inside our consciences and say we will genuinely put things in place so that there is better social housing for people who cannot afford to buy all the lots of massive housing devel- opments that no one can afford to live in today, or are we going to allow ourselves to be distracted by all other inconsequen- tial petty things we are being distracted by today. So we've got to ask ourselves how we can make really, genuinely, make sure a situation like Grenfell does not happen. Find Grenfell MediaWatch on Facebook. Watch the full interview at realmedia.press 8 ISSUE 104 / 2017 REAL MEDIA We talked to Toyin & Angie from Grenfell Mediawatch, a grassroots media group that provide regular updates about Grenfell and the truth behind the media headlines GRENFELL MEDIAWATCH: MISINFORMATION & JUSTICE We spoke to Privacy International Research Officer Tom Fisher about whether we're getting a fair deal for our data from companies. See the full interview on 'The Value of Data' at realmedia.press SMOOTHIES FOR SURVEILLANCE? Tom Fisher: 'We're not aware of the value of the information we're giving up, and what companies can do with that information. 'Speaking to a friend of mine a couple of months ago who was using a fitness tracker tied to her insurance company and she would get a free smoothie every month in exchange for basically having her location tracked constantly wherever she was. 'If you think about what kind of things something as simple as location data reveals about you – you know from that where someone lives, where someone works, you could probably work out where their boyfriend or girlfriend live, their wife, their mistress, based on movements, where you go, where you like to shop, so in the case of a free smoothie from the health insurer you're giving them all this knowledge, information about your life. 'So it can't be this fair deal'