Sebastian Skelton
Data and Ethics Editor at Computer Weekly
Data and ethics editor at Computer Weekly. Who else's views would they be? Open to pitches at [email protected]. He/him.
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3 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics strategy, which the regulator says will support innovation while protecting people’s data rights. Published on 5 June 2025, the strategy highlights how the ICO will focus its efforts on technology use cases where most of the risks are concentrated, but where there is also “significant potential” for public benefit.
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3 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
Persisting issues Since then, dozens of people like Athena have reported a range of persisting issues. This includes an inability to link physical documents like passports to their online accounts, and wrong information being included in people’s profiles.
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3 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
Seven civil society organisations are calling on European Commissioner Michael McGrath to rescind the UK’s data adequacy status, citing major concerns around the country’s ongoing erosion of privacy and data rights. Writing to McGrath in an open letter dated 3 June 2025, the organisations argue that current data handling practices in the UK – in combination with the government’s forthcoming data reforms – represent a significant divergence from European data protection standards.
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1 month ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
Widening the discussion However, the ALI was clear that while much of the public discussion has so far focused on police LFR, the risks posed by biometric surveillance technologies are not limited to a single sector or use case, and instead arise from the combined effects of increasingly widespread deployment, opaque processes, and the growing use of sensitive data to make inferences, predictions and decisions about people by a range of actors.
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1 month ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
‘Misleading’ testing claims Although Essex Police and Corsight claim the facial recognition algorithm in use has “a bias differential FMR of 0.0006 overall, the lowest of any tested within NIST at the time of writing”, there is no publicly available data on NIST’s website to support this claim. Drilling down into the demographic split of false positive rates shows, for example, that there is a factor of 100 more false positives in West African women than for Eastern European men.
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