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“I’ve seen the apps and I don’t like them,” says a DHS official who left this year. “It’s rife for abuse.I imagine they’re being used in ways they were not intended.” He highlighted the risks of misidentification, noting that facial recognition often has elevated error rates for people of colour. “I have no confidence that…

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK has become BYD’s biggest market outside of China after sales increased nearly 10-fold in September, despite the world’s largest electric-vehicle manufacturer being excluded from the government’s new subsidy scheme. BYD said on Monday…

Investigations have been opened into eight companies, including ticket resellers and driving schools, by the UK’s competition regulator as part of a review of online pricing practices. The cases are the first launched by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) under new consumer protection powers, and are looking at actions such as mandatory additional charges,…

Pritti Mistry,Business reporterand Archie Mitchell Getty Images Households are facing a “truly dismal” increase in living standards after the Budget, the head of an influential think tank has warned as it accused Labour of breaching its manifesto promise. Average disposable income – a measure of people’s earnings after tax – will rise by just 0.5%…

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor BBC Due to “brain fog” BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman had to hold notes during a recent live TV report When I rather nervously shared a personal post about dealing with brain fog at work on the social network LinkedIn last week, I had no idea that it would have such an…