Blog Safety Not Surveillance – National Townhalls on AI and ‘crime-predicting’ technologies
The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition are a collective of organisations and grassroots groups, working across digital, racial and migrant justice in the UK.
Together, we are working towards society where state surveillance and digital policing are not heralded as the answer to social and economic problems.
We are calling for an end to so-called “predictive” policing technologies, and for legislation which protects people’s rights and safeguards against the harms of AI and tech uses in policing and immigration settings.
In the last year, we’ve seen dramatic escalations in the use of AI tools across UK policing. In January, the Home Office announced its plans to invest £115 million into PoliceAI – accelerating the roll out of AI technologies across all 43 forces in England and Wales. These range from administrative tools, to so called ‘crime-prediction’ and ‘risk-scoring’ systems reliant on algorithmic models, to flawed live facial recognition cameras.
We’ve seen police forces push ahead with these technologies, justifying their use with the paternalistic argument that the presumed benefits of embedding surveillance across public life, outweigh any consequent harms to the public.
What we don’t want, is the continued roll out of these technologies without meaningful engagement and consent from the public – especially racialised, working-class and marginalised communities who already bear the brunt of policing harms.
At the eleventh hour of the Online Safety Bill’s passage through Parliament, the Government has found itself claiming to have both conceded that it won’t do anything stupid regarding encrypted messages, and that it may well press ahead with dangerous technologies if it wants to.
70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighting their concerns with the threat that the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill poses to end-to-end encryption.
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