Home Office to spend £1.3M on age-determining algorithm | The Register | I wonder what their acceptable false positive rate will be?

I am betting that I could just return “18+” and be correct more than 90% of the time:

A contract tender … “Home Office are seeking to procure an algorithm that can accurately predict the age of a subject,” the contract’s description reads. “This will have multiple use cases for Home Office, an example could/would be to assist in determining the age of those who are encountered without verifiable identity documentation.”


https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/home_office_age_algorithm/

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