Rosamunde Van Brakel

Police fined £66,000 after sharing contents of victim's phone with alleged rapist The information watchdog said it was a 'stark example of the devastating consequences of poor data protection practices'

Police Scotland fined after sharing contents of victim's phone – including intimate images and her medical records – with the officer accused of her rape, and sharing it with his Police Federation rep and his solicitor.

Words fail me.
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there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Welcome to the next phase of hyperreality

Disproportionate and Discriminatory: Reviewing the Evidence on Police Stop and Search Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowe...

And here is an article from 2007 reviewing the evidence and arguing that the statistics show that the use of the powers against black people is disproportionate and that this is an indication of unlawful racial discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why the EU should follow Scotland and require CCTV on ‘supertrawlers’ Ten EU-linked freezer trawlers, all of them so-called supertrawlers over 100m long, spent an estimated 14,530 hours fishing in Scottish waters in the 12…

Surveillance at sea ejfoundation.org/reports/why-...

I feel like I have been posting the same results of stop and search research on UK police on social media for more than 10 years now. Will ethnic profiling finally be taken seriously now it’s research in collaboration with the Mayor’s office?

King's leads analysis of largest-ever Stop and Search research to improve practices | King's College London Researchers from King's with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) have led the analysis of the largest-ever research on police use of Stop and Search.

There was disproportionality in the rate at which Black Londoners were stopped and searched – and that the grounds used to justify stops and searches of Black Londoners were vaguer than those used for White Londoners. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

#spring #Brussels

En op welke manier is dit positief voor de maatschappij?

Black rain: the health and environmental risks from Tehran’s oil fires - CEOBS Attacks on Tehran's oil facilities have exposed millions to harm, we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental risks.

Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in #Tehran this weekend have exposed millions of Iranians to harm.

In this post we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental consequences: ceobs.org/black-rain-t... 1/3 #IranIsreal #Iran #IntLaw

David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa YouTube video by scaynes

I have the same with David Lynch and quinoa :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

”Another finding was that GDP can mask the full cost of climate damage by failing to account for deaths and ill health, social disruption and degraded ecosystems.”

#GDP #Growth

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How do you build up public trust in predictive policing if there is almost no scientific evidence that it works for crime prevention, but there are clear social and ethical consequences? Will the UK learn from what has happened in The Netherlands with CAS?

Very happy to see more attention for the #wolf in #criminology. Together with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social we are preparing a chapter, which explores the 'othering' of the wolf in European cultural history & how this has shaped current criminalisation of the wolf in European societies! #morethanhuman

#spring #Leuven

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Killing millions of foxes, crows, or ravens each year: "Ineffective and economically unjustifiable"

Savage natures: Police and the wolf - Bill McClanahan, Tyler Wall, 2026 This article picks up the trail of the wolf-in-police, from its European origins to the western frontiers of the United States and, finally, to the imaginaries ...

We describe the role of the #wolf as a prototypical criminal “enemy” of European and early American law, order, and civilization, the police obsession with the wolf as a mythical symbol of American indigeneity and a material threat to settler colonial order journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected | UN Women – Headquarters The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality – posing specific risks t...

”Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change, acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gender inequalities.”

Something to keep in mind on International Women’s Day.

#WomensDay

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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

thanks sorry we urgently need an edit function

Following the event we will also publish a policy brief and two podcasts and we also have several publications in the pipeline so do also look out for those in due course! /7

👏 Research for the project was conducted by stellar PhD-researchers Stephanie Garaglia (who also organized the whole event!) and Megan Leal Causton /6

It intended to identify the main promises and drivers behind official discourses of smart city programmes in relation to smart video surveillance in three Belgian cities: Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. More info about the project can be found here: cris.research.vub.be/en/smart-vid... /5

The project led by Lucas Melgaço and myself at the Crime & Society Research Group (CRiS) aimed to analyse the discourses that surround the implementation of 'smart' video surveillance technologies, and their affordances in 'smart cities'. /4

The event will close with a stimulating debate moderated by Lucas Melgaço on possible futures and alternative socio-technical imaginaries with a stellar line-up of speakers: Marleen Easton, Jiska Engelbert and Katerina Hadjimatheou ⭐ /3