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.

BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods

A collection of data and tools exploring UK state violence

With remote learning now the norm, universities are using surveillance software to keep tabs on students who are not engaging with their studies

How schools use software to monitor pupils

As part of DFF's Digital Rights Around the World Series, we examine the case of the National Pupil Database in the UK.

Guide on how the UK’s borders, immigrations, and citizenship system tracks and spies on people, and which companies profit.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) presents risks to equality, potentially embedding bias and discrimination. Auditing tools are often promised as a solution. However our new research, which examines tools for auditing AI used in recruitment, finds these tools are often inadequate in ensuring compliance with UK Equality Law, good governance and best practice. We argue in this report that a more comprehensive approach than technical auditing is needed to safeguard equality in the use of AI for hiring, which shapes access to work. Here, we present first steps which could be taken to achieve this. We also publish a prototype AI Equality Impact Assessment which we plan to develop and pilot.

The Scottish Racism Project does two things: (1) take deep dives into the various ways racism has manifested itself up north, explore courses of action to remedy this, and look at how BAME communities can empower themselves in the face of adversity (2) offer and find solidarity with BAME individuals who have shared real lives personal stories of racism and want the truth of their experiences to be known far and wide, often because the wider Scottish Press were uninterested when approached.

Call for more transparency on how such tools are used in public services as 20 councils stop using computer algorithms. The Home Office recently stopped using an algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained “entrenched racism”.

Automated decision making threatens to disproportionately impact society’s most vulnerable communities living at the intersection of economic and social marginalization. The report discusses

'Machine learning is revolutionising healthcare provision and delivery, from mobilising previously inaccessible data sources to generating increasingly powerful algorithmic constructs for prognostic modelling. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that if we do not learn from the mistakes of our past, that we are doomed to repeat them; if it isn’t already too late'

Mapping a child's digital footprint across England's state education landscape. Policy recommendations for building a rights' respecting digital environment

A strategy for education providers and the technology industry to help improve and increase the effective use of technology in education.

A body aimed at promoting the education technology sector, Edtech UK, launches in London. [Launch date 2015]

Startups are creating toys that teach robotics, games that help kids code and apps for teachers in an industry forecast to be worth £129bn by 2020 [ published 2017]

The EdTech R&D Programme has grant funded £420k to EdTech companies and will test improvements in partnership with 58 schools this academic year.

Nesta surveyed over 7000 teachers via Teacher Tapp to better understand the challenges that they have been facing over the COVID-19 crisis.

The ethnicity of people stopped in their cars by @metpoliceuk will be recorded from today, in a new six month pilot by the force - aim is to better understand proportionality. It follows a number of controversial stops by officers including of MP @DawnButlerBrent.— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) January 18, 2021

Government considers shelving service again as figures suggest evidence of growing inequality. “The excuse is likely to be that businesses are badly hit right now but actually, it is employees, especially women and minorities, who have been badly hit.”

Birthrights is convening an inquiry into racial injustice in maternity care, led by an expert panel with barrister Shaheen Rahman QC as Chair.

Childbirth rights group supports examination into disproportionate health outcomes

NHS England is facing growing criticism from public health leaders over its failure to publish data on the ethnicity of people who have been vaccinated against covid-19

Concerns about the low take up of vaccines by black & Asian community. Calls for data on ethnicity to be collected as part of vaccine uptake data collection

Discusses harms of racial policing practices, potential effects of data driven technologies & opportunities for activism

It’s time we started using it properly.

Facial Recognition Technology is being used in a supermarket