by Didi Rankovic, Reclaim The Net:
Buried in bureaucratic jargon, the plan quietly turns trauma and health data into forecasts.
It has been revealed that the UK government is involved in developing yet another dystopian scheme, with this one getting compared to the concepts explored in Minority Report, as it involves algorithm-based analysis to “predict murder.”
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) “Homicide Prediction Project” – as it was known when first launched, only to now be referred to with the generic “sharing data to improve risk assessment” phrase – uses information belonging to between 100,000 and half a million people, with the goal of finding out who is “at greatest risk” of becoming a murderer.