Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an…

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Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.