First hour: news review: with Bristol North West Labour MP Darren Jones. Examining use of algorithms in the criminal justice system. Police should not keep suspects locked up because a computer program has told them they are likely to be offenders, a human rights group has told MPs. Algorithms that predict whether someone is a criminal based on past behaviour, gender and where they live could be "discriminatory", Liberty said. The human rights group was giving evidence to the Commons science and technology committee. The MPs are investigating the growing use of algorithms in decision making. They are concerned businesses and public bodies are relying on computer programs to make life-changing decisions - despite the potential scope for errors and misunderstandings. Durham Police have already launched a system which uses algorithms to help decide whether to keep a suspect in custody. The Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART) uses historical data on offending to classify suspects as low, medium or high risk of offending. The tool uses information such as offending history, the type of crime a suspect has been accused of, their postcode and gender. Itâs not just Russia. China, North Korea, and Iran could interfere in 2018 elections, too. National Security Adviser John Bolton said four countries â including Russia â may try to interfere in Novemberâs elections. National Security Adviser John Bolton is warning that Russia is working to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections. That may not surprise you, but this might: Heâs warning that three other countries are doing it, too. In a Sunday interview on ABCâs This Week, Bolton said the Trump administration is worried that China, North Korea, and Iran have stepped up their efforts to meddle ahead of the November vote. âI can say definitively that itâs a sufficient national security concern about Chinese meddling, Iranian meddling, and North Korean meddling that weâre taking steps to try and prevent it,â Bolton told anchor Martha Raddatz. âSo all four of those countries, really.â MI5 agents can commit crime in UK, government reveals. Secret order on authorised criminality by spies made public after legal battle by rights groups. MI5 agents are allowed to carry out criminal activity in the UK, the government has acknowledged for the first time. The prime minister was on Thursday forced to publish the text of a direction to the Investigatory Powers. Commissionerâs Office, the spying watchdog, on governing âsecurity service participation in criminalityâ. It instructs the IPCO to oversee the participation of MI5 agents in criminal activity, which was previously conducted by the now-defunct office of the Intelligence Services Commissioner, under a secret order referred to as the âthird directionâ. However, guidance about when British spies can commit crimes, and how far they can go, remains confidential. The commissioner, Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, said: âI welcome the governmentâs decision to make public my oversight of this sensitive area of work.â The order was published after a legal battle by the human rights groups Reprieve and Privacy International. Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, said: âAfter a seven-month legal battle the prime minister has finally been forced to publish her secret order but we are a long way from having transparency. âThe public and parliament are still being denied the guidance that says when British spies can commit criminal offences and how far they can go. âAuthorised criminality is the most intrusive power a state can wield. Theresa May must publish this guidance without delay.â GOSCC nerve centre based in Wiltshireâs leafy lanes at Corsham: It is hard to believe that the central communications hub for the entire British Army sits unassumingly on the outskirts of the quiet Wiltshire market town of Corsham. Yet while we have been watching events in Libya unfold on our TV screens over the last few months, it was a very different kind of screen watching on view at the new MoD Corsham base. The centre, at Westwells Road, in Neston, is home to GOSCC â the Global Operations Security Control Centre â a top secret centre which houses up to 600 specialists working behind the scenes to make huge military operations such as those in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq a reality. It wouldnât be an exaggeration to describe GOSCC as something akin to the control rooms seen see in James Bond or disaster movies. The âwowâ factor hits you as you enter the huge circular room, which has rows of operations desks facing a series of giant screens displaying highly sensitive data on the whereabouts of satellites and personnel on the ground. Some of the screens were blacked out for our arrival. There is an eerie stillness about the room, and Royal Navy Captain Chris Parsons, who heads the operation, said: âIt is always calm in here. You waste as much energy panicking as you do when you are thinking so we do the latter. âAt pinnacle moments in operations you might see some worried faces walking across the room, but generally we stay very calm.â GOSCC is a 24/7, 365 days per year operation and its works affects the daily lives of 300,000 personnel scattered across the world. As well as military, RAF and Navy personnel, specialists from companies such as BT, Atlas and Paradigm monitor telephone lines and satellite activity in space, and a special crack team work on cyber threats. As his isolation intensifies, WikiLeaks Julian Assange faces possible threat of eviction, extradition. LONDON â For Julian Assange, the worldâs most famous whistleblower, freedom could be dangerous. As his residency at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London enters its seventh year, the self-styled cyber revolutionary â WikiLeaksâ founder and controversial publisher of some of the worldâs most closely guarded official secrets â is facing a pair of converging crises that have left his allies fearing for his wellbeing and his safety. Inside the embassy, he is living an increasingly secluded existence, having been stripped of his phones, computers and visitor privileges after running afoul of the very government that gave him asylum. Outside the embassy, he is embroiled in the global political scandal surrounding Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, with questions about his role in that drama being raised by friends and foes alike. In more ways than one, the very walls protecting Assange also appear to be closing in. âLife goes on outside the embassy,â journalist Vaughan Smith, one of Assangeâs staunchest supporters and perhaps the last friend to visit him, told ABC News. âBut life doesnât go on inside.â Veteran Labour MP Frank Field has quit the partys group in Parliament, saying the leadership is becoming "a force for anti-Semitism in British politics". The Birkenhead MP also blamed a "culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation" in local parties. A month ago he lost a confidence vote in his constituency party, after siding with the government in Brexit votes. Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for hurt caused by anti-Semitism in the party and pledged to stamp it out. A Labour Party spokesman said: "Jeremy Corbyn thanks Frank Field for his service to the Labour Party." But a Labour source claimed "Frank has been looking for an excuse to resign for some time." Darren runs regular pub and picnic events and has to dive off for one now. Alex Salmond resigns from SNP after sexual misconduct claims. Former leader of Scottish National party quits to fight allegations that he denies. Banks are preparing for house prices to fall by a third after Brexit - House prices falling by a third, interest rates soaring by more than 4% and the economy going into recession â itâs the prediction from the Bank of England on what will happen in the event of a no deal Brexit. BOE boss Mark Carney made the dire warning today that there is an âuncomfortably highâ risk that Britain will leave the European Union without a deal and it could have devastating consequences. After his comments, the pound sterling plunged to an 11-day low against the dollar. The Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney said a no deal Brexit is âhighly undesirableâ (Picture: EPA) Speaking to BBC Radio 4âs Today programme, Mr Carney said that the event of no deal was âhighly undesirableâ and that Britain and the EU should do everything possible to avoid it. âI think the possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this moment,â he said. Man, 21, charged with murders of ex-girlfriend and her mum in Solihull âOur job is to look at what could go wrong and what we could do to make sure that the bank is in a robust position so it lessens the impact of a no deal Brexit. âWe have made sure that banks have the capital, the liquidity that they need and we have the contingency plans in place if there were to be a no deal Brexit.â
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