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The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despit…
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
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Wired
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Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, Gabriel Geiger
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18 Jun 2026 · 06:00 UTC
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Surveillance & Privacy
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1 min read
Summary
UK government deploying known-flawed facial recognition technology for age verification of asylum-seekers despite internal evidence of systemic errors, creating risks of wrongful detention and deportation based on algorithmic misclassification of a vulnerable population.
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
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