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‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims

The Guardian Politics Tuesday 27 October 2026, 00:01 UTC By Diane Taylor 1 min read
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Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research. Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG).

Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group

AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research.

Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG).

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