Blackbox welfare fraud detection system breaches human rights, Dutch court rules
TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch
February 6, 20205m 49s
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An algorithmic risk scoring system deployed by the Dutch state to try to predict the likelihood that social security claimants will commit benefits or tax fraud breaches human rights law, a court in the Netherlands has ruled. The Dutch government’s System Risk Indication (SyRI) legislation uses a non-disclosed algorithmic risk model to profile citizens and has been exclusively targeted at neighborhoods with mostly low-income and minority residents.
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