European discussion forum for surveillance, technology, and democracy. Editors: @lot_ten, @twetzling, @e3i5, @felixtreguer, @newsvieth, @c_ruckerbauer
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Dec 30, 2020 • 57 tweets • 32 min read
With just a few days left in a turbulent year, we are looking back at some of the key discussions in European surveillance politics in 2020. A central theme were attempts to regulate & roll back existing, possibly undemocratic practices of industry & state security actors. (1/57)
One of these practices is big-data or predictive policing, a method of algorithmic risk mapping that has increasingly been used by law enforcement departments around Europe. Concerns include limited effectiveness & reproduction of bias with a veneer of objectiveness. (2/57)