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Featured Article : Government Plans Major Expansion Of Facial Recognition

The government has set out plans to expand the use of facial recognition and other biometrics across UK policing, describing it as the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. A National Strategy For Biometrics The Home Office has launched a ten week consultation to establish a new legal framework covering all police use…
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Featured Article : MPs Concern : ‘Predictive Policing’ in UK

A cross-party group of MPs is calling for the UK government to outlaw predictive policing technologies through an amendment to the forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill, citing concerns over racial profiling, surveillance, and algorithmic bias. Proposed Law Aims to Outlaw Future Crime Predictions At the centre of the debate is New Clause 30 (NC30), an…
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Featured Article : Temporary Climb-Down By UK Government

In an apparent admission of defeat, the UK government has conceded that requiring scanning of platforms like WhatsApp for messages with harmful content, as required in the Online Safety Bill, is not (currently) feasible.  The ‘Spy Clause’  Under what’s been dubbed the ‘spy clause’ (Clause 122) in the UK’s Online Safety Bill, the government had stated…
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