Analysis: issues with some gadgets could contribute to poorer outcomes for women and people of colour

This week Human Rights Watch published a much-needed comment on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation. As governments increasingly resort to AI systems to administer social security and public services more broadly, there is an ever-greater need to analyse the impact on fundamental rights and the broader public interest.

As scandal is mentioned twice in 258 pages, some of those affected question government’s understanding of it

Dal Babu, who was one of UK’s most senior British-Asian officers, regrets taking part in racial disparity report

High levels of deprivation and job insecurity, vast income inequality, housing discrimination and medical disparities have long had a severe impact on the tangle of communities and ethnic minority populations that live in these boroughs. But when combined with the necessity to go to work, to take public transport and to share space in densely packed housing, they also provided the perfect breeding ground for a deadly virus. The domino effect would prove catastrophic.

Actor David Harewood's BBC documentary explores why people of colour are more likely to die from Covid-19.