UK passport photo checker is biased towards darker-skinned women 

Occurred: October 2020

The UK's passport photo checker system is biased against women with darker skin tones, according to a BBC investigation.

BBC journalists fed over 1,000 photos of politicians from around the world into the online checker, recorded the gender and skin tone of each photo using the Fitzpatrick skin-tone scale and analysed rejection rates across different skin tones and genders.