The news: The UK Home Office has stated it will cease working with an algorithm to course of action visa applications that critics claim is racially biased. Opponents to it argue that the algorithm’s use of nationality to determine which applications get rapid-tracked has led to a technique in which “people from rich white countries get “Speedy Boarding” poorer individuals of colour get pushed to the back of the queue.”
Time for a redesign: The Home Office denies that its technique is racially biased and litigation is nevertheless ongoing. Even so, the Home Office has agreed to drop the algorithm and plans to relaunch a redesigned version later this year, immediately after conducting a complete assessment that will appear for unconscious bias. In the meantime the UK will adopt a short-term technique that does not use nationality to sort applications.
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