Home Office is creating a 'super database' on people's race, health and biometrics, report

clock • 3 min read

Data collected also includes people's names, location details, identification numbers and online identifiers

The Home Office's secretive Data Services & Analytics unit has been accused of creating a 'super database' that holds information on millions of people and risks worsening racial biases among law e...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
Life after EncroChat - will AI balance the odds?

Law

What next for serious crime law enforcement once the convictions bonanza runs out of steam?

clock 22 November 2023 • 4 min read
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI overturns £7.5m UK fine on appeal

Privacy

Clearview's sole use by law enforcement entities outside the UK makes it exempt, tribunal finds

clock 19 October 2023 • 2 min read
Palantir directly lobbied government minister to use its software

Government

FoI request reveals Palantir's ties to UK government

clock 09 August 2023 • 3 min read

More on Privacy

Legal challenge launched against NHS-Palantir data deal

Legal challenge launched against NHS-Palantir data deal

Campaigners claim patient privacy concerns around new data platform

clock 01 December 2023 • 2 min read
David Davis MP. Source, Wikimedia. Credit: Richard Townshend

Palantir: David Davis MP raises privacy concerns over potential NHS data contract

'Bluntly, it is the wrong company to put in charge of our precious data resource'

John Leonard
clock 09 November 2023 • 2 min read
Second Meta whistleblower testifies about failure to protect teens

Second Meta whistleblower testifies about failure to protect teens

Arturo Béjar voiced his frustration with the lack of action taken by Meta to address the harm experienced by teenagers on their platforms.

clock 08 November 2023 • 3 min read