We need more transparency about when and how AI is being used in the UK asylum process.
We need to know what safeguards are in place to prevent errors and who is accountable when AI gets it wrong.
Without these vulnerable people will be harmed and these tools will be rolled out across government.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
The digital hostile environment spreads with AI in the UK asylum process.
AI isn't neutral. It can be easily tweaked to produce preferred results.
Alongside the UK Home Office's ever-increasing hostile narratives, we ask how can migrants trust such automation?
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment #homeoffice
The use of AI tools to clear the asylum backlog prioritises speed over accuracy.
The UK Home Office’s own evaluation reveals that 9% of AI-generated summaries were so flawed they had to be removed from the pilot.
And 23% of caseworkers lacked full confidence in the tools’ outputs.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
The UK Home Office has a track record of using controversial tech to target migrants.
They're not even telling people that AI is being used on their asylum application.
Using these tools in critical situations without safeguarding, transparency and accountability could lead to fatal results.
#AI #asylum #mirgants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
🔔 NEXT WEEK 🔔
Hear from ORG's @sarahalsherif on how pervasive data-sharing creates a digital hostile environment.
Sign up for the 'Oversharing Migrants' Data and the Narrative of the Harm' workshop. #StandUpSpeakOut
🗓️ 15 May
🕔 5–6pm BST
💻 Online
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/suso2025
#migrants #dataprotection #surveillance #privacy #digitalhostileenvironment
Stand Up! Speak Out! 2025 is a training series developed by members of Solidarity Knows No Borders (SKNB)—a community of migrant justice organisations working in solidarity for dignity and justice. This year our theme is THE POWER OF WORDS. We want public sector workers (and others) to build their confidence and commitment to using the power of their words in solidarity and for justice; to know when and how to listen and learn from the people they are working with; and when not to share information. Together we will share information, knowledge and strategies to resist the hostile environment. A better world is possible!
Previous research funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research found that Meta’s profiling tools allowed the UK Home Office to build ‘patchwork profiles’ of likely refugees.
This stitches together interests, behaviours and language categories to target them with scare campaigns.
https://www.sipr.ac.uk/news/influence-policing-published/
#meta #facebook #homeoffice #dataprotection #data #privacy #gdpr #adtech #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalhostileenvironment
The Digital Hostile Environment is expanding 🚨
The UK Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill gives broad powers to impose conditions on a person with lawful leave in the UK, including electronic monitoring and any other conditions the Home Secretary sees fit.
We demand #DigitalSanctuary for all migrants!
#DigitalHostileEnvironment #hostileenvironment #migrants #migrantdigitaljustice #immigration #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol
This #RefugeeWeek ORG is celebrating #OurHome by calling for digital sanctuary 🧡
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the safe data and privacy rights as everyone else, so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
End the #DigitalHostileEnvironment!
2. Provide migrants with digital sanctuary.
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the same data and privacy rights as everyone else so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
The next UK government should commit to ending the #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #migrants
Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.
It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.
Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.
Open Rights Group
