Scarlett's saga starkly shows how easily facial-recognition technology, which is now available to anyone with internet access, can lead to unexpected harms that may be impossible to undo.
Scarlett's saga starkly shows how easily facial-recognition technology, which is now available to anyone with internet access, can lead to unexpected harms that may be impossible to undo.
Scarlett's saga starkly shows how easily facial-recognition technology, which is now available to anyone with internet access, can lead to unexpected harms that may be impossible to undo.
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Credit: Piqsels The Home Office unlawfully seized thousands of mobile phones from asylum seekers arriving in the UK by small boat, the High Court has ruled. Three asylum seekers – known only as HM, KH and MA, one of whom has been recognised as a potential victim of trafficking – filed a judicial review against the Home Office at the High Court. All three arrived in Dover between April and November 2020. Having been searched on arrival, they were compelled to hand over their mobile phones and provide their PIN numbers. The High Court said the Home Office’s secret, blanket policy of seizing, retaining and extracting data from migrant's phones breached human rights laws. Nearly 2,000 phones were taken in total, with home secretary Priti Patel eventually conceding that the blanket policy was unlawful. Lucie Audibert of campaign group Privacy International, which intervened to provide support to the claimants, said the Home Office had “unashamedly granted itself unlawful powers