Algorithmic justice Archives

We’ve made some good progress on challenging unfair government algorithms – but there’s a massive amount more to do

We’ve taken down two unjust and discriminatory algorithms so far. We’re just getting started.

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.

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.

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.