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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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
Greater use of biometrics In its whitepaper, the government also outlined proposals to deploy “modern biometric technology” to frontline immigration enforcement officers, specifically highlighting that they will play a role in facilitating immigration raids.
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1 month ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
The UK government and online harms regulator Ofcom disagree about whether misinformation is covered by the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). On 29 April 2025, the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (SITC) questioned the UK’s online harms and data regulators about whether the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) is fit for purpose, as part of its inquiry into online misinformation and harmful algorithms.
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1 month ago |
computerweekly.com | Sebastian Skelton
MoJ systems Known as the Offender Assessment System (OASys), the first crime prediction tool was initially developed by the Home Office over three pilot studies before being rolled out across the prison and probation system of England and Wales between 2001 and 2005.
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