It has come to light that the Home Office is using a secretive algorithm, which it describes as digital “streaming tool,” to sift visa applications. So far they have refused to disclose much information about how the algorithm works, hiding…

Immigrant rights campaigners have begun a ground-breaking legal case to establish how a Home Office algorithm that filters UK visa applications actually works.

The challenge is the first court bid to expose how an artificial intelligence pr…

The growth of technology has brought a great deal of efficiency and security to almost all organisations and businesses. But such progress may have taken a slightly wrong turn as the reliance on artificial intelligence by the Home Office as…

Foxglove is supporting the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to challenge the Home Office’s use of a secret algorithm to sift visa applications, which it describes as a digital “streaming tool”.

We share JCWI’s concerns tha…

The U.K. government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism.

The tool had been the target of a legal challenge. The Joint Council …

Home Office lawyers wrote to us yesterday, to respond to the legal challenge which we’ve been working on with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). 

We were asking the Court to declare the streaming algorithm unlawful, and…

The Home Office has agreed to stop using a computer algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained "entrenched racism".

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and digital rights group Foxglove…

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 t…