Amnesty found that 78 percent of people on the UK's Gangs Matrix in 2017 were black, despite only 29 percent of 'gang-related' crimes being committed by black people (Photo: Tony Gonzalez)

Why EU needs to be wary that AI will increase racial profiling

Rule of Law

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by Fieke Jansen and Sarah Chander, Brussels/Cardiff,

Whether it be 'predictive' algorithmic systems used in the Netherlands to profile Eastern Europeans and Roma for 'pick-pocketing', or secretive lists of suspected criminals such as the UK's Gang Matrix, there is a growing reliance on criminal risk-scoring technologies by pol...

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Sarah Chander is a senior policy advisor at European Digital Rights. Fieke Jansen is a fellow of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Amnesty found that 78 percent of people on the UK's Gangs Matrix in 2017 were black, despite only 29 percent of 'gang-related' crimes being committed by black people (Photo: Tony Gonzalez)