COMPAMIR
High-Purity Fact Pipeline
High-Purity Fact Pipeline
UK Home Office
United Kingdom
July 2025 (Announcement), 2027 (Planned rollout)
Verified: June 20, 2026
"The UK Home Office plans to use facial age estimation (FAE) AI to assess the age of asylum seekers starting in 2027. Leaked reports indicate the technology shows significant bias, particularly against Sub-Saharan Africans and females. Human rights organizations and experts have raised concerns about the accuracy, potential for bias, and dehumanizing nature of the technology."
Author: Virginia Eubanks
This book provides a critical examination of how data-driven technologies are used by government agencies to monitor and profile vulnerable populations, directly addressing the ethical concerns and systemic biases inherent in the UK's proposed asylum age-verification system.
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