Statewatch

Total grants: €101,038.000

Statewatch produces and promotes critical research, policy analysis and investigative journalism to inform debates, movements and campaigns on civil liberties, human rights and democratic standards. Statewatch seeks to provide information, analysis and tools for civil society in the UK and the EU to hold the state to account and achieve positive social change.

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Issued: Dec 2024 | 4 months Closed

Statewatch

€71.585 Build

United Kingdom

With this grant, Statewatch exposed and challenged the criminalisation and discrimination caused by data-based crime ‘prediction’ and profiling systems employed by policing and criminal justice authorities in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and the UK. It provided evidence of and information on the actual and potential harms posed by these systems to over-policed and marginalised populations and the wider public. This created a basis for affected and interested groups to seek policy changes that defend and extend civil liberties and human rights, including in the context of work on the implementation of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.

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Issued: Jan 2024 | 1 year Closed

Statewatch

€29.453 Ecosystem grants

United Kingdom

With this grant, Statewatch investigated the EU’s deployment of potentially harmful AI systems for border control, migration and security. Their project increased democratic scrutiny and oversight of the EU’s ongoing activities to operationalise AI use by border guards, law enforcement and migration authorities. Statewatch shared their findings with the Members of the European Parliament to increase their awareness and to demand change and democratic accountability.

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