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Thread: In our article in Theoretical Criminology Lander Govaerts and I discuss the rhizomatic harms of another of such algorithmic risk profiling tools that was implemented in the Netherlands to predict crime : ProKid+ and Top400 #AI #riskprofiling #precrime /1

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Thread: In our article in Theoretical Criminology Lander Govaerts and I discuss the rhizomatic harms of another of such algorithmic risk profiling tools that was implemented in the Netherlands to predict crime : ProKid+ and Top400 #AI #riskprofiling #precrime /1

Een netwerk van criminele boeren heeft er jarenlang drugsafval, industriële zouten en bouwafval gedumpt. Ambtenaren of inspecteurs die dat wilden aanpakken, werden tegengewerkt of met de dood bedreigd. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/hoe-d...

Not surprised: Dutch Inspection Justice & Security shows that the use of the algorithmic risk assessment OxRec to predict recidivism is unreliable and can lead to discrimination www.inspectie-jenv.nl/actueel/nieu...

Australian children are now the biggest Roblox users globally, averaging 87 minutes per day on mobile and 133 minutes on desktop. At the same time, ChatGPT usage among under 18s has surged by 416 percent since 2024. www.linkedin.com/posts/yasmin...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

"Unsustainable economic activity and a focus on growth as measured by the gross domestic product, has been a driver of the decline of biodiversity ... and stands in the way of transformative change," warns a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform @ipbes.net published yesterday.

🚨🚨 #climatechange: More than 150 countries including China, India and #EuropeanUnion members have signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/obse...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

Our beautiful cat Spiff died last night he was 16 years old 😢

"Residents already have demands about jobs and the environment. Now data center operators want Illinois to reduce its biometric protections." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/d...

Watch my testimony on this removal of kids from society in the New Zealand parliament a few months back... vimeo.com/1111511670?f...

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

New survey research by Vian Bakir & Andrew McStay with teens in the UK shows that 56% believe AI companions can “think” (and a significant minority believe they can “feel”) emotionalai.org/companions

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example fortune.com/2026/02/04/p... *Not satire.

The PowerSchool breach exposed 62M students’ most sensitive records. It also revealed a policy vacuum, argues Danai Nhando, as accountability mechanisms failed to address systemic problems, including the centralization of data, weak security defaults, and governance failures.

“The most chilling thing is what happens to society, but also to individuals. Fear becomes internalised, and we begin to censor our own thoughts. We wonder if the law will actually protect us if they come for us one day.”

‘Around half a dozen people living with a variety of facial differences, from birthmarks to craniofacial conditions, are increasingly struggling to participate in modern life as identity verification software, which often is powered by machine learning, is quickly becoming commonplace.’

Wise words from a brave woman: “It begins with claims that certain people are dangerous. That ordinary legal safeguards should not apply to them. It ends with a society diminished – more compliant, more cynical, more brutal.” With democracies hollowed out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When I moved from Twitter to Bluesky I made a starter pack for digital #criminology check it out! #digitalcriminology go.bsky.app/Fequm3N

"We all knew circumventing the ban was going to be possible, but it was so much easier than we could have expected. No verification, no ID, nothing. It was comedic how many times I saw a new account pop up of one of my friends." HT @rosamundevb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

When I moved from Twitter to Bluesky I made a starter pack for digital #criminology check it out! #digitalcriminology go.bsky.app/Fequm3N

Autoritarisme, zo stelt ze, is geen buitenaardse afwijking. Het groeit in samenlevingen waar burgers stoppen met denken, met oordelen, en tegenspreken. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Ban sillicon valley platforms and invest in European alternatives that do not have profit as the main driver and are designed in such a way that they respect human and children’s rights and contributes to eco-social justice !

Important new 404 Media’s zine to understand and counter surveillance technology used by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (in Spanish and English): www.404media.co/icezine/

Digital Criminology Interesting starter pack by ‪@rosamundevb.bsky.social‬

Have you noticed how many new people have come to BlueSky in the last 24 hours? Especially for newbies. 15 #osint and #cyberintelligence starter packs 1. Digital Criminology by ‪@rosamundevb.bsky.social‬ bsky.app/starter-pack... ⏬

“Now that the platforms think I’m over 18 I have completely unfiltered access to all the content that might have been previously left out of my feed because of content restrictions.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’" "Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain." Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Europa staat op een digitaal kantelpunt: de afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologie wringt steeds meer. Maar zelfs wanneer er andere keuzes zijn voor bedrijven als Meta, Microsoft of Google, blijven mensen vasthouden aan wat ze kennen, omdat iedereen daar zit. vrtnws.be/p.939E8oGwv

Good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From lie detectors to biometric databases, the EU’s growing use of artificial intelligence in migration control is exposing gaps in its legal framework, and risks blurring the line between border enforcement and internal security. www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.

Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“‘One of the reasons I was angry was because I shouldn’t have to prove I am innocent,’ Rajah said. ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I’m wrongly identified as a criminal.’ He described the incident as feeling ‘quite like Minority Report, Orwellian’”.

Klimaatverandering zorgt niet enkel voor natuurverlies, maar is ook een gevaar voor de nationale veiligheid. Dat zegt de Britse geheime dienst. apache.be/2026/02/03/k...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Het rapport laat zien dat jongeren, net als hun ouders, slachtoffer van de toeslagenaffaire zijn. Velen groeiden op in armoede, raakten hun thuis kwijt of werden uit huis geplaatst. #rhizomaticharms nos.nl/artikel/2600...

Can Belgium please do the same!

The European offensive against encrypted phone evidence Defendants and lawyers are demanding transparency about digital evidence from police hacking operations used in criminal prosecutions across Europe following a series of critical court judgments. www.computerweekly.com/opinion/The-...