Sebastian Klovig Skelton

A community impact assessment for the Met Police’s deployment of live facial recognition in Lewisham brings into question the forces previous claims to Computer Weekly that its use of the technology is supported by ‘the majority of residents’

Researchers said the results of the trial conducted with employees of a learning technology firm provide “further compelling evidence” on the benefits of four-day work weeks for employees

Amnesty International is calling on Sweden’s social insurance agency to immediately discontinue its machine learning-based welfare system, following an investigation by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet that found it to be discriminatory.

Microsoft and Google are using people’s personal data without proper consent to train artificial intelligence models, alleges Barings Law, as it prepares to launch a legal challenge against the tech giants.

Over 100 Met Police officers and staff have been investigated for accessing sensitive data related to the Sarah Everard case, leading to the dismissal of a Roads and Transport officer who accessed the information while off-duty.

The Open Rights Group is urging the Information Commissioner’s Office to revise its light touch approach to public sector data protection issues, arguing that its experimental policy of limiting its enforcement actions to reprimands and notices, rather issuing fines, is allowing bad practices to continue largely unabated

Regulatory compliance and standard requirements

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has set out the government’s first set of strategic priorities for how Ofcom should approach regulating online safety, which includes embedding safety by design and supporting innovation in technologies that can help protect people online

MPs have held an open debate on police use of live facial recognition technology for the first time since it was initially deployed by the Met Police in August 2016.

On-going data protection issues with the use of hyperscale public cloud infrastructure by UK police could complicate the ambitions of nine forces to move their common records management system onto a cloud-based alternative, even in spite of the government’s recently proposed data reforms