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Experts in human rights law, surveillance and computer science from the University of Essex have set out the actions required before a contact-tracing app can be deployed in the UK.

An Essex human rights expert has been awarded major funding to look at the impact of Artificial Intelligence-assisted decision-making on individual development and the functioning of democracy.

Human rights need to be at the heart of design, development and deployment of big data and artificial intelligence, says a new report published by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex.

Computers are being trained to identify human rights abuse through photographs – a move which could have a massive impact on improving the lives of those suffering abuse and in bringing their perpetrators to justice.

Two Essex academics have used a range of techniques and expertise to conduct a detailed, interdisciplinary analysis of the Metropolitan Police Service’s trials of live facial recognition technology (LFR).

Essex economist and HRBDT Co-Investigator Professor Sonia Bhalotra has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

A research paper by Essex computer scientists was highlighted as the “most thought-provoking” paper by the MIT Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

A new report by researchers from the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, identifies significant flaws with the way live facial recognition (LFR) technology was trialled in London by the Metropolitan Police Service.

Digital technology and the big data it generates about every aspect of our lives offers unique opportunities, but the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations revealed it also comes with great risks.