The official narrative  behind data-driven surveillance technology promises a new era of “impartial”, “scientific”, “evidence-based” policing, sewn together by the techno-futurist allure of automated algorithms and their supposed apolitical neutrality. The reality of the vast upsurge in UK surveillance since 2020  is one of alarming privacy invasion and intense racialisation, especially against racial and ethnic minorities. Tools like the now-defunct Metropolitan Police's Gan