{"id":18411,"date":"2025-04-09T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:37:36","slug":"uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"UK creating \u2018murder prediction\u2019 tool to identify people most likely to kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is \u2018chilling and dystopian\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is developing a \u201cmurder prediction\u201d programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/apr\/08\/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/361e626f2c09365e1a21e51f0dda98fd9fcaa979\/0_99_3701_2221\/master\/3701.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3d012f02e5e62b78e5d0a1485dbb523c\" title=\"UK creating \u2018murder prediction\u2019 tool to identify people most likely to kill\" \/>Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is \u2018chilling and dystopian\u2019<br \/>\nThe UK government is developing a \u201cmurder prediction\u201d programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.<br \/>\nResearchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is \u2018chilling and dystopian\u2019 The UK government is developing a \u201cmurder prediction\u201d programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers. Researchers are alleged to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK creating \u2018murder prediction\u2019 tool to identify people most likely to kill<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}