多组织呼吁英国停止边境面部年龄估计
SOURCE / EFF-Updates · EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border
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EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border
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This week, EFF joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in writing to the UK’s Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum, Alex Norris, raising serious concern about the Home Office’s decision to deploy Facial Age Estimation (FAE) to assess asylum-seeking children from 2027. The letter points to four key concerns: Discrimination As with most face estimation and recognition tools, there is ongoing bias in the deployment of these technologies. With FAE, many have highlighted its baked-in failures and discrimination, particularly in relation to women and people of color. Evidence shows that FAE is most accurate for estimating the ages of Eastern European men, but even then it consistently produces errors. The Home Office itself noted “that FAE performance can vary depending on ethnicity” and skin tone. Inaccuracy The Home Office has admitted that FAE systems are imprecise for analyzing 16-to 18-year-olds, with even the “top systems” having an “error margin of around 2.5 years here.” This is exactly the age range for which the Home Office has chosen to deploy this technology. And this error margin will be widened yet further because children seeking asylum often suffer from trauma-induced aging. Lawfulness of Use of Children’s Data Major concerns exist around the lawful basis on which the Home Office, or its chosen third-party FAE vendors, could have sought consent to collect and process photographs or data from asylum-seeking children to train this system. Further, there is no clarity on the images and/or data that this technology has been trained on. Lack of Necessary Disclosure The Home Office claims “extensive testing has already been carried out across diverse groups, including different ethnicities, genders and age ranges, indicating promising performance and accuracy.” But these purported “promising” results have not been published, nor have any Equality or Data Protection Impact Assessments. The letter continues by requesting clarification on several key questions regarding these concerns. EFF and partners have provided the UK government 21 days for a response, and we urge the Home Office to take on this uphill task in good faith and release the information. You can read the letter in full here.
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本周，电子前哨基金会联合福克斯格洛夫、人权观察等60多个组织致信英国边境安全与庇护国务大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯，对内政部计划从2027年起使用面部年龄估计技术评估寻求庇护儿童表示严重关切。信中指出四项关键问题：该技术存在对女性和有色人种的歧视；对16-18岁青少年误差高达2.5年，且因创伤加速衰老的儿童误差更大；内政部或第三方供应商收集处理儿童照片和数据缺乏合法依据；内政部声称的测试结果及平等与数据保护影响评估未公开。组织要求21天内就相关问题作出澄清。
点评
面部年龄估计技术对儿童和特定群体的歧视风险，以及缺乏透明度和合法数据收集依据，可能违反英国《2010年平等法》和UK GDPR关于公平处理与数据最小化的原则。
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AI 生成 · 人工审核核心关切
面部年龄估计技术对儿童和特定群体的歧视风险，以及缺乏透明度和合法数据收集依据，可能违反英国《2010年平等法》和UK GDPR关于公平处理与数据最小化的原则。
实务启示
中国法律人在处理类似生物识别技术时应严格遵循《个人信息保护法》第28条对敏感个人信息的处理规则，并强化对未成年人特别保护及算法影响评估。