Open Rights Group: Home Office embeds AI in immigration in near-total secrecy

Open Rights Group reports that the UK Home Office uses AI to determine asylum seekers' ages, detect sham marriages, check phones, run border facial recognition and prioritise cases via the opaque Ipic tool. The report accuses officials of routinely invoking national security to block FOI requests.

• AI is used to check asylum seekers' ages, sham marriages and phone contents
• Borders are monitored with live facial recognition, drones and satellites
• The opaque Ipic tool prioritises and assesses immigration cases
• ORG calls for regulation, a public AI register and FOI reform