Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gangs Violence Matrix is a list of people the Met designates as ‘gang nominals’, meaning those likely to be involved in gang ...

The Metropolitan Police Service has agreed to overhaul its controversial Gangs Violence Matrix, admitting that it needs "wholesale change". The database is used by the Met to identify those at risk of ...

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has removed more than 1,100 people from its controversial gangs violence matrix and committed to a “complete redesign” of the system in the face of imminent legal ...

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been secretly developing a new criminal database similar to the Gangs Matrix, the use of which was found to have led to serious breaches of data protection ...

More than 1,000 people have been removed from a gangs matrix under reforms led by the Metropolitan Police's new commissioner. The list was found to be potentially be in breach of data laws with those ...

Connecticut has been quietly feeding its criminal records and other state government files into a multistate, anti-terrorism database that critics decry as a dangerous new incarnation of Big Brother.