Sebastian Klovig Skelton

Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules, and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union.

The use of artificial intelligence in military contexts can unlock a range of benefits for defence organisations, but also highlights a clear tension between speed and control baked into the technology.

The government’s new Crime and Policing Bill contains provisions that mean the secretary of state could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies the biometric data would ever be repurposed in this way

Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation.

Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people whose, making it impossible to determine under their statutory equalities duties whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population

The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes.

Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are "supercharging racism" in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities

A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face.

The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut

Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris.