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Controversial AI facial recognition age checks to be used on migrants at UK border

Plans to use AI to assess migrants’ age labelled ‘deeply concerning’

The Independent UK · May 29

UK government acted unlawfully by forcing torture survivors to share rooms, court rules

Judgment is blow to Shabana Mahmood’s plans to send more asylum seekers to army barracks

The Guardian - UK · May 29

AI facial recognition to estimate age of asylum seekers posing as children

Currently, immigration officers conduct age assessments when a claimant's age is disputed

The Independent UK · May 29

Calls grow for Home Office to block US ‘anti-Israel’ streamer Hasan Piker from entering UK

Hasan Piker is listed as among the speakers at an event called How the American Left Learned to Speak the Internet at London SXSW in early June

The Independent UK · May 27

More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel amid hot weather

Migrants have made the journey over six consecutive days since Friday.

Evening Standard · May 27

Immigration officers more likely than social workers to assess UK asylum seekers as adults

Local authorities deem young arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data shows

The Guardian - UK · May 27

Government rejects proposal to allocate funds for domestic homicide reviews

Domestic abuse commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ by move as councils in England and Wales struggle to fund reviews

The Guardian - UK · May 27

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Hong Kongers seeking safety in the UK granted extended stay

Migration minister Mike Tapp said the UK would ‘offer sanctuary to those in need’ while ‘restoring control at the border’

The Independent UK · May 27

1,000 small boats migrants cross English Channel over bank holiday

989 people in 14 boats arrived in the UK between Friday and Monday according to figures from the Home Office

Evening Standard · May 26

Warning issued as police investigation into Post Office Horizon scandal could face five-year delay

Commander Stephen Clayman said the inquiry is “hugely complex”, with eight million documents and counting needing to be forensically reviewed

The Independent UK · May 26