The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee will
tomorrow be drawing international comparisons in the use of
algorithmic tools for law enforcement, as it questions experts
from across the globe for its inquiry into new technologies and
the application of the law.
The committee will seek to explore the use of
advanced algorithmic tools in activities to discover, deter,
rehabilitate, or punish people who breach the law.
Witnesses will discuss how algorithmic tools for law
enforcement are deployed in their countries and where this has
been particularly successful - or otherwise.
The hybrid session will take place on Tuesday
7 September at 10.00am and can be followed on Parliament
TV.
Giving evidence will be:
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Professor Elizabeth Joh, Martin
Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California,
Davis;
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Professor Colin Gavaghan, Chair
of the Advisory Panel on emergent technologies at New Zealand
Police and Director of the New Zealand Foundation Centre for
Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies, University of
Otago;
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Professor Rosamunde Elise Van
Brakel, Research Professor in Surveillance Studies
at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium and
Co-director of the Surveillance Studies
Network.
Questions the committee is likely to ask
include:
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How are advanced technologies being used for the
application of the law in Belgium, New-Zealand, and the
United States of America?
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How has the use of advanced technologies for the
application of the law evolved over time in your respective
countries? Is the overall trend towards the upscaling or
descaling of capabilities?
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What do you view as the most appropriate sphere
of government at which to regulate the use of advanced
technologies for the application of the law: local, national,
regional, or global?
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What transparency mechanisms are in place in your
respective countries, and how successful are
they?
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Have you come across examples from your
respective jurisdictions in which human-machine interaction
has been particularly problematic or particularly
successful?
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Seen from abroad, is anything particularly
noteworthy about the way advanced technologies are being used
(or not used), for the application of the law in England and
Wales?
