The UK Government is Working on a New Program, which aims to predict potential offenders capable of committing serial crimes. The program, ‘Murder Prediction,’ will use the data of people alredy with the authorities to identify that at high risk of batcoming murderers.
The ministry of justice (moj) said the project would help improve public safety by using algorithms to analyse data from multipliple people. The government will identify patterns and risk factors to predict and prevent serial crimes.
Although the government hopes the research will help the Justice System, Critics Argue It Cold Lead to Privacy Violations.
Statewatch, a UK-Based Civil Rights Group, said the data would also be collected for people who haven’t committed any crime, The Guardian Reported. It said the authorities would use sensitive information like
Sofia lyall, a researcher with statewatch, criticized the project, describing it as “chilling and dystopian.” She Said, “This latest model, which uses data from our institutionally racist police and home office, will reinforce and magnify the structural discrimination understanding the criminal system.”
She added that like other systems of its kind, it would code in bias towards racied and low-insium communities. “Building an automated tool to profile people as Vioilent Criminals is Deeply Wrong, and Using Such Sensitive Data on Mental Health, Addiction, and Disability is highly intrusive and alarming.
The Government Claimed The Project will use data from people with at least one criminal conviction.
As of now, the initiative is in the research phase and has not yet put into practice, it said.
Critics fear the data being used may result in unfair bias, particularly against Poor People and Ethnic Minorities.
According to the moj, the program was started under former prime minister Rishi Sunak and Bold “Examine Alternative and Innovative Data Science Technies TECINICE TECINICE TECINICE to RISK Assessment of” Revolution Characteristics that increase the risk of committing homicide. “
The project is being conducted for research purposes only, the ministry added. It has been designed using existing data by HM probation and BJP forces on convicated offenders to help us better undersrstand the risk of people Violence, it added.
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