Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing

The injection of emerging technologies into policing implies that policing mandates in law may become mediated and applied through opaque machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, or surveillance tools – contributing to a form of ‘black box policing’ challenging foreseeability and clari...

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Main Author: Markus Naarttijärvi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2019-11-01
Series:Technology and Regulation
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Online Access:https://techreg.org/article/view/11000
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description The injection of emerging technologies into policing implies that policing mandates in law may become mediated and applied through opaque machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, or surveillance tools – contributing to a form of ‘black box policing’ challenging foreseeability and clarity and expanding discretionary legal spaces. In this paper, this issue is explored from a constitutional and rule of law perspective, using the requirements of qualitative legality elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights and the implicit democratic values that they serve. Placing this concept of legality into a wider theoretical framework allows legality to be translated into a context of emerging technology to maintain the connections between rule of law, democracy, and individual autonomy.
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spelling doaj.art-8845c06c6342465583dce8f5abcd788e2022-12-22T03:13:54Zengopenjournals.nlTechnology and Regulation2666-139X2019-11-01201910.26116/techreg.2019.004Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box PolicingMarkus Naarttijärvi0Umeå university The injection of emerging technologies into policing implies that policing mandates in law may become mediated and applied through opaque machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, or surveillance tools – contributing to a form of ‘black box policing’ challenging foreseeability and clarity and expanding discretionary legal spaces. In this paper, this issue is explored from a constitutional and rule of law perspective, using the requirements of qualitative legality elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights and the implicit democratic values that they serve. Placing this concept of legality into a wider theoretical framework allows legality to be translated into a context of emerging technology to maintain the connections between rule of law, democracy, and individual autonomy. https://techreg.org/article/view/11000LegalityPolicingBlack boxDemocratic deliberationRule of lawEmerging technology
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Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
Technology and Regulation
Legality
Policing
Black box
Democratic deliberation
Rule of law
Emerging technology
title Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
title_full Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
title_fullStr Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
title_full_unstemmed Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
title_short Legality and Democratic Deliberation in Black Box Policing
title_sort legality and democratic deliberation in black box policing
topic Legality
Policing
Black box
Democratic deliberation
Rule of law
Emerging technology
url https://techreg.org/article/view/11000
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