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We put a stop to the A Level grading algorithm!

The government has peformed a screeching U-turn on Ofqual’s unfair system.

Home Office says it will abandon its racist visa algorithm – after we sued them

This is the first successful judicial review of a UK government algorithmic decision-making system.

Why I’m so keen to talk to Facebook content moderators

Cori explains why Foxglove is fighting for the rights of Big Tech’s real, but often invisible, workforce.

Update: papers filed for judicial review of the Home Office’s visa algorithm

Foxglove is supporting the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to challenge the Home Office’s use of a secret algorithm that effectively gives “Speedy Boarding” for a visa to white people.

BREAKTHROUGH: UK government releases NHS Covid 19 data deals with big tech

Along with openDemocracy, we have forced disclosure of deals made between government and private companies giving them access tot NHS data.

Why is the UK government hiding its NHS data deals with private companies?

The health service’s data belongs to all of us. We’re fighting to make sure it remains protected so we can all benefit from it.

COVID-19 and our health data: a question of public trust

Foxglove will act as a “critical friend” to the government during the pandemic, ensuring emergency use of data remains strictly time-limited and private companies don’t seek to exploit the crisis for the own profit.

Data in government: making it fair and legal

We welcome a report from the Committee on Standards in Public Life as the start of an essential debate we need to have about how algorithms are affecting important decisions being made in the public sector – but some technologies, such as facial recognition, are simply too harmful to regulate and must be banned.