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3. Security AI in EU agencies
EU agencies are already developing and using various types of AI technology. This section looks in particular at projects and activities launched by eu-LISA and Europol, as well as Frontex, Eurojust and the EU Asylum Agency. There are a wide variety of AI technologies - from facial recognition to machine learning and 'predictive' technologies - that have been examined or are actively deployed. Read More
2. Cop out: security exemptions in the Artificial Intelligence Act
The regulatory regime introduced by the Artificial Intelligence Act will frame the use of artificial intelligence in the EU, and perhaps elsewhere in the world, for many years to come. In the field of security, it achieves two key things. Firstly, it establishes conditions for increased development and use of security AI systems. Second, it ensures that those systems are subject to extremely limited accountability, oversight and transparency measures. Read More
1. Introduction
The EU has long sought to develop and deploy advanced technologies for policing, border and immigration control, and criminal justice: biometric border controls, border surveillance drones, and machine learning systems for analysing vast quantities of data, amongst other things. The latest part of this push for technological “solutions” to so-called security problems is the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). Read More
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym Full name AI Artificial intelligence AMIF Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund AR/VR Augmented reality/Virtual reality BoMIC Border Management Innovation Centre BUC Business Use Cases CCTV Closed Circuit Television CELIA Common European Language Indication and Read More
Summary analysis
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being embedded into everyday life by powerful actors, primarily motivated by profit. Police, border and criminal justice agencies are also looking to take advantage of the new powers AI offers for “security” policies, at both national and EU level. The EU is creating new infrastructure, away from the public eye, to allow the swift development and deployment of “security AI.” This will also reinforce the existing discrimination, violence and harm caused by policing, border and criminal justice policies. Exposing and understanding this emerging security AI complex is the first step to challenging it. Read More
Contents
Summary analysis Acronyms and abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Cop out: security exemptions in the Artificial Intelligence Act 2.1 “A historic achievement” 2.2 Summary: exceptions and loopholes 2.3 In detail: the AI Act’s security exemptions 2.3.1 Read More
Automating Authority: Artificial intelligence in European police and border regimes
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being embedded into everyday life by powerful actors, primarily motivated by profit. Police, border and… Read More
UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system
The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people. Read More
UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making
A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies. Over 30 civil liberties, human rights, and racial justice organisations and experts, including Statewatch, have written to the government to demand changes. Read More
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
The Guardian, 8 April 2025. Read More