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| Aug 19, 2026 | Johansson Turned Down OpenAI Twice: Still No Federal Law Covers AI Voice Rights | By Scott McCain
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| Mar 23, 2026 | Police Scotland Considers Facial Recognition Rollout Amid Human Rights Concerns | The UK Government states that Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology uses live video footage of people passing an LFR camera in a public place and compares their images to a specific list of people wanted by the police (known as a watchli... |
| Feb 17, 2026 | British Transport Police to Trial Live Facial Recognition | The British Transport Police (BTP) is trialling the use of live facial recognition (LFR) at railway stations at selected transport hubs in London.
The transport authrity say the pilot will run for six months to evaluate the effectiveness of... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | AI Transcription Tools in Social Care: Productivity Hack or Bias Risk? | AI scribes may be saving social workers time on cumbersome paperwork and painstaking admin, but AI bias and prejudice could be permeating across use cases unchecked.
This is according to research from the Ada Lovelace Institute, which found... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Does Identity Security Have a “Post-Login” Problem? | The explosion in real-time deepfakes and AI‑generated content has broken traditional visual verification systems, a new report from Prove has warned, with our own eyes no match for machine-speed adversaries.
The identity platform’s latest S... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Learning Your Legal Rights: A Tech-Aware Guide to Defense Options | Share
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Getting charged with a crime is downright overwhelming, and the clock starts ticking fast. Technology today plays a major role in how people learn their rights, understand charges, and explore defense options b... |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Comment | Identity, Not Surveillance, is Facial Recognition’s Future | Artificial intelligence might be the technology attracting the most public attention – or misunderstanding – over the past year. But make no mistake, facial recognition technology (FRT) has not been far behind.
In recent months, headlines h... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Openclaw just showed how fast your workforce can outrun your controls | Openclaw, a rapidly adopted open-source and autonomous personal AI assistant, is significantly increasing “Shadow AI” risk within organisations by operating locally, coordinating tasks across systems, and even creating a social network for ... |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Live Facial Recognition To Be Trialled At UK Border | The Home Office says its Immigration Enforcement service will soon test the use of live facial recognition (LFR) on people immigrating to the UK via legal ports of entry.
The short proof of concept trail will test the effectiveness of LFR a... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | SNP Votes to Block Police Scotland’s Facial Recognition Plans | A resolution banning Police Scotland’s unfettered use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) has been passed by the SNP at its annual conference.
The resolution, brought by Erin Lux, opposed the implementation of LFR by the force without legislat... |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Peter Kyle sets out tech growth plan as UK AI sector hits £2.9bn | Technology secretary Peter Kyle has pitched the UK as a “global magnet” for innovation in his keynote speech at Mansion House on Wednesday evening.
This speech comes as investment in British AI companies hit record levels last year. Figures... |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Police Scotland to Introduce Live Facial Recognition | The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Dr Brian Plastow has confirmed that Police Scotland will move ahead with plans to implement live facial recognition (LFR) technology.
The decision was made at a Scottish Police Authority (SPA) meeting on... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Are AI Companions Making Loneliness Worse? | Although AI chatbots aren’t capable of emotion (yet), their ability to mirror and respond to the emotions of humans has given rise to a sharp uptake in the number of people turning to machines for emotional support.
AI ‘companions’ are incr... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Facial recognition vans rolled out across England in crime crackdown | An additional seven police forces in England will be using ten new live facial recognition (LFR) vans to track suspects wanted for serious crimes, including sexual offences, violent assaults, and homicides.
The rollout, announced by the Hom... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | UK Expands Live Facial Recognition in Police Van Rollout | The UK is expanding its use of facial recognition among law enforcement, rolling out more live facial recognition vans across seven police forces in England.
A total of ten new vans have been sent out, equipped with targeted, cutting-edge t... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | OpenAI Launches GPT-5 With Claims of ‘PhD-Level’ Expertise | OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-5, describing it as its “best AI system yet” and a significant leap over previous models. The company says the system offers state-of-the-art performance in areas including coding, mathematics, writing... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | The Data Dilemma: Trust and Accountability in Law Enforcement | In a world where surveillance is ubiquitous, the handling of data becomes paramount. The recent reprimand of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) serves as a stark reminder of the delicate balance b... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | The Price of Trust: Data Protection and National Security in the UK | In an age where data is the new oil, the importance of safeguarding personal information cannot be overstated. The recent reprimand of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) serves as a stark reminder... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI regulation needs to be smarter in the UK, urges Deepmind boss | Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, has called on UK policymakers and business heavyweights to embrace the “smart regulation” of AI, warning that a failure to do so could prompt unintended harm, or the loss of public trust.
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| May 30, 2025 | The Legal Quagmire of Surveillance and Oversight | In the age of technology, the law often lags behind innovation. This is especially true in the realm of surveillance and government oversight. Two recent incidents in the UK and the US highlight the urgent need for a robust legal framework ... |
| May 30, 2025 | ICO Reprimands Police Force Over “Serious Shortcomings” With CCTV | The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a reprimand to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) following “serious shortcomings” around its storing and handling of CCTV footage.
In February 2021, a person was held in custody for 48 hours. A... |
| May 29, 2025 | Ada Lovelace Institute Condemns UK’s Facial Recognition Governance | The Ada Lovelace Institute, the independent AI and data research institute, has condemned the UK’s “fragmented and piecemeal” approach to governing facial recognition and other biometric technologies.
According to the research organisation’... |
| May 29, 2025 | AI watchdog slams government over facial recognition rollout | An artificial intelligence (AI) search body has criticised the UK government for accelerating the deployment of facial recognition technology without first establishing a comprehensive legal framework.
The Ada Lovelace Institute has warned ... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | The AI Crime Wave: A Call for Action in the UK | The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is like a double-edged sword. On one side, it offers innovation and efficiency. On the other, it fuels a new breed of crime. Recent reports from The Alan Turing Institute and the Ada Lovelace Institu... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | UK Public Wants More Regulation to Feel Okay About AI | A rising amount of the UK public say that laws and regulation would increase their comfort with AI, new research from the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Alan Turning Institute has found.
About seven in ten (72%) of Britons say that more reg... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Lack of Trust Holding Back Public Sector AI Adoption | A lack of trust in AI among public sector workers could be hindering adoption and digital transformation, the Ada Lovelace Institute says.
A briefing paper published by the Institute revealed that public sector appetite for AI is being hamp... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Women in AI: Ewa Luger explores how AI affects culture — and vice versa | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| Mar 3, 2024 | Francine Bennett uses data science to make AI more responsible | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Mozilla’s Biggest AI Moments | Just over a year ago Mozilla launched two big investments in AI — a $35 million investment in a responsible tech fund, Mozilla Ventures and a $30 million investment in a R+D Lab developing trustworthy AI, Mozilla.AI. Since those initial inv... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Auditing in the Dark: Guidance is Needed to Ensure Maximum Impact of DSA Algorithmic Audits | With contributions from Emma Llansó and Jared Katzman
On October 20, the delegated acts on independent audits under Article 37 of the Digital Services Act were adopted by the European Commission. The delegated act aims to lay down the ‘rule... |
| Nov 16, 2023 | France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI rules to fix rules for apps, not model makers | Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawmakers trying to secure a political deal on draft legislation in the next few weeks, as we reported earlier this week. Key... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | UK gov’t urged against delay in setting AI rulebook as MPs warn policymakers aren’t keeping up | A U.K. parliamentary committee that’s investigating the opportunities and challenges unfolding around artificial intelligence has urged the government to reconsider its decision not to introduce legislation to regulate the technology in the... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | UK Announces AI Safety Summit, Says It Hopes To Lead The World | Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at the opening of London Tech Week in central London on ... [+] June 12, 2023. (Photo by Ian Vogler / POOL / AFP) (Photo by IAN VOGLER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)POOL/AFP via Getty Images |
| Jul 31, 2023 | U.K. Home Office Controversy Raises New Concerns Over Facial Recognition Software In Retail Stores | Output of an Artificial Intelligence system from Google Vision, performing Facial Recognition on a ... [+] photograph of a man, with facial features identified and facial bounding boxes present, San Ramon, California, November 22, 2019. (Ph... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Independent Ada Lovelace Institute Asks UK Government to Firm up AI Regulation Proposals | Image: Shuo/Adobe Stock
Attempts to create standards and regulations for the way generative AI intersects with many aspects of society are underway across the world. For instance, in March, the U.K. government released a white paper promoti... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Researchers Urging UK to Strengthen Proposals for AI Regulation | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 19 July 2023, 07:07 am
AI researchers are urging the UK government to reconsider its current proposals for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the country.
A report from the Ada Lovelace Institute has prese... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | UK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility, report warns | In recent weeks, the U.K. government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover and shaker in the nascent field of AI safety — dropping a flashy announcement of an upcoming summit on the topic last month, alon... |
| Apr 16, 2023 | Algorithms auditing algorithms: GPT-4 a reminder that responsible AI is moving beyond human scale | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, streamlining processes, and, hopefully... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | ChatGPT gives sick child sex abuse answer, breaking its own rules | More On: chatgpt
Apple delays updating email app using ChatGPT over AI fear tied to kids AI could replace journalists, media CEO warns Bar trivia puzzle stumps social media and ChatGPT — so can you solve it? War’s closer than you think, Joe... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | UK Police Use of Facial Recognition Found to be ‘Unethical’ | A new audit system, created by Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, was used to assess the Police’s compliance with standards of transparency, equality, and fairness surrounding their use of AI facial recognition.
Using UK guidelin... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | UK watchdog warns against AI for emotional analysis, dubs ‘immature’ biometrics a bias risk | The U.K.’s privacy watchdog has warned against use of so-called “emotion analysis” technologies for anything more serious than kids’ party games, saying there’s a discrimination risk attached to applying “immature” biometric tech that makes... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn | Proposed EU rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study.
The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source A... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Modularity for International Internet Governance | The modern-day “global” internet faces a dubious future. On the battle lines of internet freedom, Russia’s increasing authoritarian control aspires to China’s great firewall levels, while the annual Freedom on the Net report for 2021 found ... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | UK review finds urgent need for new rules on biometrics | There is an 'urgent need' for comprehensive new legislation in the UK to safeguard the public from inappropriate use of biometric technology, according to a new analysis by the Ada Lovelace Institute.
The Institute commissioned an... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | New Laws Governing Biometric Tech “Urgently Needed” | Technology that uses data from peoples faces, fingerprints, voices, DNA profiles, and other measurements related to the body are becoming more common place, with the law and regulation around the tech failing to keep apace with its prolifer... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | UK urgently needs new laws on use of biometrics, warns review | An independent review of UK legislation has concluded the country urgently needs new laws to govern the use of biometric technologies and called for the government to come forward with primary legislation.
Among the legal review’s ten recom... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | What is the Future of PPT? A conversation with Lyel Resner and Tanya Filer | Lyel, where do you think we are right now with PPT How far have we come (particularly in the U.S.) and what is happening right now?
It is important to say, that first, we continue to suffer from a nomenclature problem; responsible tech, res... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Europe’s AI Act contains powers to order AI models destroyed or retrained, says legal expert | The European Union’s planned risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence includes powers for oversight bodies to order the withdrawal of a commercial AI system or require that an AI model be retrained if it’s deemed high ris... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | NHS to Trial New Ethical AI Project | The NHS in England will trial a new approach to the ethical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare to eliminate biases.
Under the new Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIA) programme, researchers and developers will receive su... |
| Jan 8, 2022 | 7 ways the technology sector could support global society in 2022 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Some of the excesses of 2021 have shown us how di... |
| Jan 8, 2022 | 7 ways the technology sector could support global society in 2022 | Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more
Some of the excesses of 2021 have shown us how digital technologies can undermine what philoso... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Promoting trust in data through multistakeholder data governance | Email
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The exponential growth in the production and use of data, intensified by the COVID-19 crisis, has created vast amounts of new data. These data have incredible potential for development: from helping to improv... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | The U.K.’s new AI transparency standard is a step closer to accountable AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The UK government announced last week a new algor... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | The U.K.’s new AI transparency standard is a step closer to accountable AI | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
The UK government announced last week a new algorithmic transparency standard. The move follows a year when the UK’s ... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar : Lidar Technology Safeguards Privacy in Security and Infrastructure | Concerns about data privacy and protection against misuse have accompanied the adoption of smart city technologies, as we have previously highlighted. Recently, these concerns have grown. In June 2021, the European Data Protection Board and... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Why The EU Needs To Get Audits For Tech Companies Right | Discussions over the right – or at least a good – way to regulate big tech companies are heating up in the European Union (EU). Several legislative proposals are set to be negotiated, with public and behind-the-scenes lobbying in full swing... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | The EU proposed a vaccine passport for its 27 nations. The idea is gathering pace around the world. | A federal police officer checks a document of a passenger of a passenger plane landing from Prague at Frankfurt Airport. Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images
The European Commission proposed a vaccine passport mechanism on Wedne... |
| Dec 19, 2020 | How to create space for ethics in AI | In a year that has seen decades’ worth of global shocks, bad news, and scandals squeezed into 12 excruciatingly long months, the summer already feels like a distant memory. In August 2020, the world was in the throes of a major social and r... |
| Dec 19, 2020 | How to create space for ethics in AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a year that has seen decades’ worth of global ... |
| Aug 23, 2020 | The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something | Earlier this year, the independent research organisation of which I am the Director, London-based Ada Lovelace Institute, hosted a panel at the world’s largest AI conference, CogX, called The Ethics Panel to End All Ethics Panels. The title... |
| Aug 23, 2020 | The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Earlier this year, the independent research organ... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Стартапы создают «паспорта иммунитета», но эксперты предупреждают об опасности и неэтичности технологии | Фото: iStock
Технологические стартапы разрабатывают «паспорта иммунитета», чтобы помочь в восстановлении экономики. Однако учёные заявляют, что такие сертификаты поднимают ряд неразрешённых вопросов — от определения иммунитета к коронавирус... |
| May 26, 2020 | AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty | Philip N. Howard Contributor
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| May 1, 2020 | The Importance of Equity in Contact Tracing | Commentators and policymakers appear to have slowly rallied around “contact tracing” as a means to ease society out of restrictive social-distancing measures. Unlike in past pandemics, some observers assume that this iteration of contact tr... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Brexit is already shaping facial recognition surveillance in the U.K. | Over the past few months, high-profile incidents in the United Kingdom — home to one of the most-surveilled societies in the world — have forced people to consider how facial recognition will be used in the country. The fact that Brexit is ... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Brexit is already shaping facial recognition surveillance in the U.K. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past few months, high-profile incidents ... |
| Oct 5, 2019 | Artificial stupidity: ‘Move slow and fix things’ could be the mantra AI needs | “Let’s not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we’re not sure yet how they’re going to change society,” warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. “... |
| Oct 5, 2019 | Artificial stupidity: ‘Move slow and fix things’ could be the mantra AI needs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
“Let’s not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we’re not sure yet how they’re going to change society,” warned Carly Kind, ... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #137: Unbabel and gig economy, documents leak from the Commission, cap table issues, Carly Kind of the Ada Lovelace Institute, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
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| Sep 5, 2019 | Pew: U.S. adults trust police with facial recognition more than tech companies or advertisers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When it comes to facial recognition software, peo... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Pew: U.S. adults trust police with facial recognition more than tech companies or advertisers | When it comes to facial recognition software, people trust tech companies and advertisers less than they do police, but attitudes vary based on age, race, gender, and political party, according to a Pew Research survey released today.
The s... |
| Start-ups are racing to develop Covid-19 ‘immunity passports’ — but experts warn they’re unethical | Immunity passports would link your identity to a coronavirus test result so you can share your immune status with employers and other third parties.
Several tech firms, including Onfido, are racing to develop tech for immunity passports to ... |
| What is the Future of PPT? A conversation with Lyel Resner and Tanya Filer | Lyel, where do you think we are right now with PPT How far have we come (particularly in the U.S.) and what is happening right now?
It is important to say, that first, we continue to suffer from a nomenclature problem; responsible tech, res... |
