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- BBC – Former minister calls for device-level spyware on Britons’ phones
Former minister Jess Phillips has publicly called for device-level spyware on Britons’ phones that poses serious privacy risks. Commenting on the potential use of device-level scanning, Jack Coulson, head of advocacy, said: “The proposal to put experimental AI spyware on the pop…
- Big Brother Watch responds to watchdog warning that facial recognition risks wrongful arrests
The policing inspectorate has found that police use of retrospective facial recognition risks the wrongful arrest of innocent people, that the algorithm in use is more likely to misidentify people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and that forces are not recording how they use i…