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Metropolitan Police surveillance initiative

Project Alpha is a British Metropolitan Police Service intelligence gathering initiative set up in June 2019. One of the functions of the initiative is gathering information from social media. Its activities have included monitoring videos released by the UK drill music scene.

According to The Guardian, it has been involved in large-scale gathering of information about children.

References

  1. ^ Crisp, Wil; Dodd, Vikram (2022-06-03). "Met police profiling children 'on a large scale', documents show". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  2. Dearden, Lizzie (2019-12-04). "New police unit using social media to predict outbreaks of gang violence". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  3. Swann, Steve (2021-01-13). "Drill and rap music on trial". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  4. Buckle, Becky (25 February 2022). "YouTube and Met Police are working together to remove rap and drill videos". Mixmag. Retrieved 2022-06-03.

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