On 1 April 2026, the former Valuation Office Agency (“VOA”) was abolished and its functions were fully integrated into HM Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) as the HMRC Valuation Office. The new HMRC […]
The growing presence of Palantir in the UK is no longer just a procurement story. The company now holds roughly £600 million in public contracts across the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, […]
On 21 April, the UK High Court handed the Metropolitan Police a significant victory in the battle over live facial recognition, dismissing a legal challenge to the force’s policy and clearing the way for […]
Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old woman from Tennessee, says she spent months in jail over fraud offences in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, after police used facial recognition […]
The UK government’s recent digital ID consultation contains a detail that should have triggered far more alarm than it did. Ministers are proposing a national identity system built around a biometric image […]
Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition after a Cambridge study found the system was statistically more likely to correctly identify black people than other ethnic groups, and more […]
The US Department of Defense is considering blacklisting Anthropic — one of America’s leading AI companies, and the creator of the Claude large language model — after it refused to let the […]