A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services. Increasingly, the fight over a client’s eligibility now involves some kind of algorithm. “In some cases, it probably should just be shut down because there’s no way to make it equitable,”

Sally Collier to appear before education select committee over A-levels and GCSE results debacle. Use of algorithms disproportionately affected poorer and Black communities.