Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI tool

Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.

In this report, researchers develop “minimum ethical and legal standards” for the governance of facial recognition technology and test them on three British police deployments – with all three failing.

🚨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

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,...

(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

It was designed to help prevent violent crime. But now the Metropolitan Police has been forced to delete hundreds of names from its Gang Violence Matrix.

Concerns were raised in 2018 about the database which was set up following the 2011 riots.

Controversial database trimmed down in face of mounting pressure from campaign groups and data watchdog

This Guide to Law Enforcement Processing highlights the key requirements of Part 3 of the DP Act 2018.

Exclusive: force says Project Alpha scours social media to identify offenders and fight serious violence

Police officers in South Wales and Gwent are to become the first in the UK to develop and use technology to identify wanted individuals in real time through a new facial recognition app on their mobile phones.

Yet tax crimes cost the economy nine times more.

The Metropolitan Police is buying a new facial recognition system that will supercharge its surveillance technology capabilities

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) have agreed to share information on the ethnicity of children in contact with the youth justice system.

Demands to welcome cops at Pride amount to a collective hallucination, as if the policing of gender and sexuality by the state was a thing of the past.

The Data Services & Analytics has data on 650 million people and has been accused of creating a “super database”

Analysis reveals how the UK's biggest police force is contributing to racist narratives about the criminality of Black people.

Our analysis reveals how the UK's biggest police force is contributing to racist narratives about the criminality of Black people.

Clearview AI's latest patent application reveals the firm's ongoing plans to use surveillance against vulnerable individuals. According to BuzzFeed News, a patent was filed in August which describes in detail how the applications of facial recognition can range from governmental to social — like dating and professional networking. Clearview AI's patent claims that people will be able to identify individuals who are unhoused and are drug users by simply accessing the company's face-matching system.

Software used across the US criminal justice system is biased against Black People. Published 2016

A collection of data and tools exploring UK state violence

Arrest data biases predictive tools because police are known to arrest more people in Black and other minority neighborhoods, which leads algorithms to direct more policing to those areas, which leads to more arrests. The result is that predictive tools misallocate police patrols: some neighborhoods are unfairly designated crime hot spots while others are underpoliced.

Racism is a systemic issue that pervades every aspect of life in the United States and around the world. In recent months, its corrosive…