Category: Cyber Security | Published: 2025-07-17
Proposed Law Aims to Outlaw Future Crime Predictions
At the centre of the debate is New Clause 30 (NC30), an amendment tabled by Green MP Siân Berry and backed by at least eight others, including Labour’s Clive Lewis and Zarah Sultana. If passed, the clause would explicitly prohibit UK police from using artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making (ADM), or profiling techniques to predict whether an individual or group is likely to commit a future offence.
Berry told the House of Commons that such systems are _“inherently flawed”_ and represent _“a fundamental threat to basic rights,”_ including the presumption of innocence. _“Predictive policing, however cleverly sold, always relies on historic police and public data that is itself biased,”_ she argued. _“It reinforces patterns of over-policing and turns communities into suspects, not citizens.”_