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Content type: Press release

Privacy International issues complaint to the UK ICO regarding the Home Office’s deployment of two algorithms for immigration purposes suspected of failing to adequately comply with data protection law

On 18th August 2025, Privacy International has issued a formal complaint to the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) about the Home Office’s (HO) use of two automated tools in immigration enforcement operations, which PI argues do not adequately comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases (IPIC) tool and the Electronic Monitoring Review Tool (EMRT) appear to be used to make life-altering…
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Content type: Long Read

PI rings the alarm bell and alerts ICO about the use of algorithms by the Home Office and their impact on migrants

On the basis of a year of legal research by PI as well as documents obtained by other civil society organisations, and evidence provided by legal representatives fighting these automated systems on behalf of their clients, on the 18th August 2025, we issued a formal complaint to the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) regarding the Home Office’s use of two ‘automated recommendation-making tools’ (ARMTs), the Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases tool (IPIC) and the Electronic Monitoring…