{"id":3168,"date":"2020-08-04T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/we-won-home-office-to-stop-using-racist-visa-algorithm"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:58:00","slug":"we-won-home-office-to-stop-using-racist-visa-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/we-won-home-office-to-stop-using-racist-visa-algorithm","title":{"rendered":"We won! Home Office to stop using racist visa algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that the Home Office has agreed to scrap its &#8216;visa streaming&#8217; algorithm, in response to legal action we launched with tech-justice group Foxglove.<br \/>\nFrom Friday, 7 August, Home Secretary Priti Patel will suspend the \u201cvisa streaming\u201d algorithm \u201cpending a redesign of the process,\u201d which will consider \u201cissues around unconscious bias and the use of nationality\u201d in automated visa applications.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Home Office\u2019s own independent review of the Windrush scandal, found that it was oblivious to the racist assumptions and systems it operates. This streaming tool took decades of institutionally racist practices, such as targeting particular nationalities for immigration raids, and turned them into software. The immigration system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up to monitor for such bias and to root it out.\u201d<br \/>\nChai Patel, Legal Policy Director of JCWI<br \/>\nToday\u2019s win represents the UK\u2019s first successful&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that the Home Office has agreed to scrap its &#8216;visa streaming&#8217; algorithm, in response to legal action we launched with tech-justice group Foxglove. From Friday, 7 August, Home Secretary Priti Patel will suspend the \u201cvisa streaming\u201d algorithm \u201cpending a redesign of the process,\u201d which will consider \u201cissues around unconscious bias&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}