We won ! Home Office to stop using racist visa algorithm
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We are delighted to announce that the Home Office has agreed to scrap its ’visa streaming’ algorithm, in response to legal action we launched with tech-justice group Foxglove. From Friday, 7 August, Home Secretary Priti Patel will suspend the “visa streaming” algorithm “pending a redesign of the process,” which will consider “issues around unconscious bias and the use of nationality” in automated visa applications. “The Home Office’s own independent review of the Windrush scandal, found that (...)
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