Microchips Under the Skin: Why the UK’s Dystopian Offender Tracking Proposal Reveals More About Prison Panic Than Technological Progress
On a weekday morning in May 2025, representatives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, and Serco filed into a TechUK conference room in London to hear a question from Britain’s Prisons Minister, Lord James Timpson: “What could a digital, data and technology-enabled justice system look like by 2050?” Among the responses — revealed only now […]