Statewatch | UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system
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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

  • @[email protected]English
    80•11 days ago

    570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.

    Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.

    It can reliably predict when people are black, though.