From the who-needs-precogs dept.:
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.
This surely won’t turn out to decide that POC are more likely to kill…
It’s okay, they’ll probably make a rule that anyone who checks that is a traitor. /s
The UK seems like an okay place for the most part but man, are their government agencies extra aggro or what.