Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of police mass facial recognition searches ...

IntroductionThe emergence of large language models (LLMs) in late 2022 has changed people’s understanding of, and interaction with, artificial intelligence (AI).

For many, browsing the internet or checking social media comes with its fair share of being targeted with ads selling “fad diet” subscription-based programmes, magic weight-loss powders, or promising ...

Background Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will eventually be used to give every person in the country a unique ...

With more and more connected devices around us, the chance that you've been hit by an update notification is high. But what do these software updates do? How do they actually work, and why are they ...

Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice for many years throughout the world. As traditional radio-frequency tags are replaced by GPS ankle tags, we examine how these different ...

Now more than ever with a global pandemic happening, our lives are being shaped by our interaction with the digital world.

Over the last two decades we have seen an array of digital technologies being deployed in the context of border controls and immigration enforcement, with surveillance practices and data-driven ...

Q&A: EU's top court rules that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy ...

Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data ...

AI chatbots are now being used everyday across different industries and recreationally. We consider the growing possibility that these AI tools are the next home of the multi-billion-dollar ...

The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) has published a damning " Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United ...