April 9, 2025, 9:20 am
UK officials are advancing a homicide prediction system that leverages sensitive personal data, prompting concerns over privacy and bias. An NGO sharply criticized the tool as “chilling and dystopian,” while government representatives insist that the algorithms are sufficiently abstract to prevent discriminatory outcomes. The controversy underscores a broader conflict between innovative predictive policing techniques and civil liberties safeguards, fueling a public debate over the potential societal risks and benefits of technology-driven law enforcement.
The algorithm is designed to identify people most likely to become killers.
UK Justice Ministry is developing a homicide prediction system using sensitive data from hundreds of thousands, including vulnerable and mentally ill individuals. Critics warn it could be chilling and dystopian.
Even though policing department spent 2 years on study predicting which criminals will become killers The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.…
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