Police use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions – Big Brother Watch

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: José María Mateos <chema () rinzewind org>
> Date: April 15, 2018 at 11:06:57 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Police use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions – Big Brother Watch
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> for IP, if you want.
>
> https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/police-use-experian-marketing-data-for-ai-custody-decisions/
>
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> POLICE USE EXPERIAN MARKETING DATA FOR AI CUSTODY DECISIONS
>
> Durham Police has paid global data broker Experian for UK postcode stereotypes built on 850 million pieces of 
> information to feed into an artificial intelligence (AI) tool used in custody decisions, a Big Brother Watch 
> investigation has revealed.
>
> Durham Police is feeding Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ data, which profiles all 50 million adults in the UK[1] to classify UK 
> postcodes, households and even individuals[2] into stereotypes, into its AI ‘Harm Assessment Risk Tool’ (HART). The 
> 66 ‘Mosaic’ categories include ‘Disconnected Youth’, ‘Asian Heritage’ and ‘Dependent Greys’.[3]
>
> Durham Police’s AI tool processes Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ data and other personal information to predict whether a 
> suspect might be at low, medium or high risk of reoffending.[4]
>
> Experian’s Mosaic code includes the ‘demographic characteristics’ of each stereotype – characterising ‘Asian 
> Heritage’ as ‘extended families’ living in ‘inexpensive, close-packed Victorian terraces’, adding that ‘when people 
> do have jobs, they are generally in low paid routine occupations in transport or food service’.[5]
>
> ‘Disconnected Youth’ are characterised as ‘avid texters’ whose ‘wages are often low’[6] – with first names like 
> ‘Liam’ and ‘Chelsea’.[7]
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>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> José María (Chema) Mateos
> https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en



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