Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the blogosphere ...

2 new #Disintermedia blog posts to celebrate the southern, seasonal new year. One a sort of state of the blog update;

https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/guess-whos-back-tell-a-friend

... and another Indymedia Story about my experience with a police informant who spent a decade spying on activist groups, including many I was involved in;

https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me

#activism #policing#Indymedia
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

First the police, now Big Tech wants to put 'crime-predicting' tech in UK probation services.

A lack of transparency and reliance on flawed data means that institutional racism will be hardwired into the justice system.

All at the expense of dignity and rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary

#police #policing#SafetyNotSurveillance #predictivepolicing #ukpolitics #ukpol #justice #bigtech
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Tech that claims to 'predict' crime is only as 'objective' as the data it's fed.

With crime data reflecting historic racist and discriminatory practices, we must act now to prevent injustice for over policed communities.

Sign the petition to BAN it (UK) ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech

#police #policing#SafetyNotSurveillance #predictivepolicing #ukpolitics #ukpol #justice
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

First the police, now Big Tech wants to put 'crime-predicting' tech in UK probation services.

A lack of transparency and reliance on flawed data means that institutional racism will be hardwired into the justice system.

All at the expense of dignity and rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary

#police #policing#SafetyNotSurveillance #predictivepolicing #ukpolitics #ukpol #justice #bigtech
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"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."
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."