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

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Open Rights Group published research claiming that AI is embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, in tasks ranging from determining asylum seekers' ages to border surveillance, and that it reinforces the hostile environment for immigration.

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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.”
Guardian AI, 27 Oct 2026, 00:01.

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