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HRBDT
Surveillance Arbitration in the Era of Digital Policing
Read moreIn their latest article, published in Theoretical Criminology (29 October 2020), Professor Pete Fussey and Dr Ajay Sandhu analyse the…
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HRBDT
‘Assisted’ Facial Recognition and the Reinvention of Suspicion and Discretion in Digital Policing
Read moreAutomated facial recognition (AFR) surveillance has emerged as a particularly controversial technology among the growing armoury of digital policing tools. …
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HRBDT
Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision
Read moreThe expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…
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When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong – Pete Fussey Interviewed for Police and Facial Recognition Podcast by MIT Technology Review
Read moreProject Co-Director Prof Pete Fussey was recently interviewed for ‘When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong’, the first in a four-part…
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HRBDT
The ‘Uberization of Policing’? How Police Negotiate and Operationalise Predictive Policing Technology
Read morePredictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about…
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HRBDT
Right On – The Wednesday Web Chat
Read moreThe HRBDT project is supporting a new digital initiative that aims to keep the Human Rights dialogue going during the…
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HRBDT
Discussion Series: Live Facial Recognition
Read moreIn July 2019 researchers from the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project published the first independently-funded academic report into…
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HRBDT
Exploring the Demands for Data and Technology by the Users of Digital Policing
Read moreResearchers Daniel Marciniak and Prof Pete Fussey have completed an ethnography of digital policing in the New Orleans Police Department…
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HRBDT Researchers Launch New Report on London Metropolitan Police’s Trial of Live Facial Recognition Technology
Read moreA new report by researchers from the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex…
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BBC Radio Essex Interview – Surveillance Technology
Read moreProfessor Pete Fussey was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Essex talking about his role leading the new human rights, data…