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Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-06-19

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

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More than 60 rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have urged the UK Home Office to halt plans to use AI facial age estimation for asylum-seekers, arguing the technology is biased, inaccurate—especially around the critical 16–18 age boundary—and lacks transparency about training data, testing methodologies, and impact assessments.

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