Green MP Siân Berry has proposed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would ban predictive policing technologies in the UK. Berry argues that such technologies are fundamentally flawed as they rely on biased data, leading to a disproportionate focus on communities already subject to over-policing. Her amendment, supported by eight other MPs, aims to prohibit the use of automated decision-making and profiling in predicting criminal behavior, emphasizing that these practices violate fundamental human rights, including privacy rights.
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.
As I have always said in the context of facial recognition, questions of accuracy and bias are not the only reason to be against these technologies. At their heart, they infringe human rights.
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