Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing
The article addresses human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing. It looks into human rights standards, as elaborated in the selected European Court of Human Rights case law on creating police databases, watchlists and registries, and the police’s use of new technologies. Th...
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The article addresses human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing. It looks into human rights standards, as elaborated in the selected European Court of Human Rights case law on creating police databases, watchlists and registries, and the police’s use of new technologies. The article argues that in the case of new technologies deployed by law enforcement the availability of evidence on the effectiveness and accuracy of a given method should be essential to assess that an interference with a human right using this technology is ‘necessary in a democratic society’. The article notes that the Court’s unwillingness to assess the claims about the utility of technology critically might suggest that its evaluation of human rights compliance of person-based predictive policing and other experimental technologies would suffer from a severe blind spot.
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbf470fe3b4041ecbd0eb7a95137a91e2022-12-22T03:13:51Zengopenjournals.nlTechnology and Regulation2666-139X2022-06-01202210.26116/techreg.2022.007Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policingZuzanna Warso0Open Future Foundation The article addresses human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing. It looks into human rights standards, as elaborated in the selected European Court of Human Rights case law on creating police databases, watchlists and registries, and the police’s use of new technologies. The article argues that in the case of new technologies deployed by law enforcement the availability of evidence on the effectiveness and accuracy of a given method should be essential to assess that an interference with a human right using this technology is ‘necessary in a democratic society’. The article notes that the Court’s unwillingness to assess the claims about the utility of technology critically might suggest that its evaluation of human rights compliance of person-based predictive policing and other experimental technologies would suffer from a severe blind spot. https://techreg.org/article/view/11451predictive policinghuman rightsright to privacyEuropean Court of Human RightsEuropean Convention on Human Rightsnecessity |
| spellingShingle | Zuzanna Warso Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing Technology and Regulation predictive policing human rights right to privacy European Court of Human Rights European Convention on Human Rights necessity |
| title | Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing |
| title_full | Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing |
| title_fullStr | Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing |
| title_short | Human rights requirements for person-based predictive policing |
| title_sort | human rights requirements for person based predictive policing |
| topic | predictive policing human rights right to privacy European Court of Human Rights European Convention on Human Rights necessity |
| url | https://techreg.org/article/view/11451 |
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