Cory Doctorow
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"At their heart, these technologies infringe human rights."
Last week @sianberry tabled an amendment to the UK Crime and Policing Bill that would prohibit the use and deployment of dangerous 'crime-predicting' police tech.
These systems will subject overpoliced communities to more surveillance. More discrimination. More injustice.
Sign the petition to BAN it ➡️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech
#SafetyNotSurveillance #surveillance #precrime #predictivepolicing #police #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol
Video of Siân Berry (Green MP) speaking in the UK House of Commons about an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that "would prohibit the deployment and use of certain forms of “predictive” policing technologies, particularly those that rely on automated decision-making, profiling and artificial intelligence, to assess the likelihood that individuals or groups will commit criminal offences."
"Such technologies, however cleverly sold, will always need to be built on existing, flawed police data, or data from other flawed and biased public and private sources. That means that communities that have historically been over-policed will be more likely to be identified as being “at risk” of future criminal behaviour.... At their heart they infringe human rights, including the right to privacy and the right to be presumed innocent."
