🚨NEWS: after the Met spent massive resources in central London on Saturday using live facial recognition cameras all day, scanning *36,420* people’s faces, guess what the outcome was?0 correct matches1 wrong match, requiring a member of the public to prove their innocence 🥴 https://t.co/gKDtT0Jjp5— Silkie Carlo (@silkiecarlo) July 18, 2022

In buying iRobot, the e-commerce titan gets a data collection machine that comes with a vacuum.

A partnership with the Health Foundation to study the relationships between data-driven systems and inequalities in health

In the first study to examine this issue among COVID-19 patients, researchers found that the inaccurate measurements resulted in a “systemic failure,” delaying care for many Black and Hispanic patients. The study adds a growing sense of urgency to an issue raised decades ago.

Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—is running a new TV ad showing a future in which college students slip on a lightweight VR headset to enter ...

Dozens of scientific fields that have adopted machine learning face a reproducibility crisis. At a Princeton workshop today, ten experts discuss how to find and fix ML flaws. We had to cap Zoom signups at 1,600, but we’ve added a livestream. Starting NOW:https://t.co/14ypK6NguA— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) July 28, 2022

Mayor’s decision to give police access to more data described as ‘gargantuan increase of surveillance in London’

Police should be able to mon­itor pas­sen­gers who spend hours on the rail­way net­work in case they are pick­pock­ets or sex offend­ers — or are in need of help — a chief con­stable has said. Lucy D’Orsi, the head of the Brit­ish Trans­port Police,...

Huge yikes in this story about school surveillance: schools sent teens home with chrome books pre-loaded with Gaggle spyware. Teens plugged their phones into their laptops to charge them. Gaggle sent administrators alerts when teens texted each other nudes https://t.co/SIX1Tdn5PV— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) August 3, 2022

As the post-Roe era underscores the risks of digital surveillance, a new survey shows that teens face increased monitoring from teachers—and police.

(1/7) Home Office is now introducing facial recognition smart watches to monitor foreign nationals who have completed their sentences and released back into the community. Lucy Audibert (@privacyint) and I clearly explain as to why this is problematic and must be challenged. pic.twitter.com/1h5KrwLa38— Monish Bhatia (@DrMonishBhatia) August 5, 2022

Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day

People of colour may be paying £250 more than White people for car insurance. We’re calling on the FCA to make sure no one pays an ‘ethnicity penalty’.

The government announces leads for independent reviews into ethnic inequalities for medical devices and tobacco control.

Data colonialism is similar to traditional colonialism in terms of its appropriation of human life. States thus use their ownership of data to regulate the behaviors and cultural and religious practices of minorities.

Companies are embracing automated video interviews to filter through floods of job applicants. But interviews with a computer screen raise big ethical questions and might scare off candidates.

The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and weak enforcement of data protection law are failing to protect millions of children from the normalisation of routine use of biometric data for everyday canteen and library transactions, and increasingly intrusive bodily surveillance in the classroom. Pupils in the UK are effectively guinea pigs in the use of emerging technology for companies from around the world, including facial recognition technology that has already been banned from schools in other countries.

A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK.The review, funded by the NHS Race and Health Observatory and led by experts from The University of Manchester in conjunction with the University of Sheffield and the University of Sussex, explored differences in m...

Ayona Datta: Twice the size of Mumbai, the "smart city" of Dholera is one of dozens of new cities planned in India – but will it just end in more urban chaos?