{"id":21101,"date":"2025-12-05T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/home-office-admits-facial-recognition-tech-issue-with-black-and-asian-subjects\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:37:44","slug":"home-office-admits-facial-recognition-tech-issue-with-black-and-asian-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/home-office-admits-facial-recognition-tech-issue-with-black-and-asian-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for \u2018some demographic groups\u2019 on certain settings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/dec\/05\/labour-child-poverty-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-reform\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers are facing calls for stronger safeguards on the use of facial recognition technology after the Home Office admitted it is more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts on some settings.<\/p>\n<p>Following the latest testing conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the technology\u2019s application within the police national database, the Home Office said it was \u201cmore likely to incorrectly include some demographic groups in its search results\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/05\/home-office-facial-recognition-tech-issue-black-asian-subjects\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e24a5e342105469017ec2a3b8a6c952a32266224\/551_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0b0c6c33b2e75ae87deea55f99351d7f\" title=\"Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects\" \/>Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for \u2018some demographic groups\u2019 on certain settings<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nMinisters are facing calls for stronger safeguards on the use of facial recognition technology after the Home Office admitted it is more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts on some settings.<br \/>\nFollowing the latest testing conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the technology\u2019s application within the police national database, the Home Office said it was \u201cmore likely to incorrectly include some demographic groups in its search results\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for \u2018some demographic groups\u2019 on certain settings UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Ministers are facing calls for stronger safeguards on the use of facial recognition technology after the Home Office admitted it is more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/home-office-admits-facial-recognition-tech-issue-with-black-and-asian-subjects\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}