Austria’s employment agency rolls out discriminatory algorithm, sees no problem
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AMS, Austria’s employment agency, is about to roll out a sorting algorithm that gives lower scores to women and to the disabled. It is very likely illegal under current anti-discrimination law. The Austrian employment agency, known by its German acronym AMS, is a state-owned company in charge of helping job seekers. In 2016, it started a program to evaluate the chances of specific groups on the labor market. Three years later, satisfied with the results of a statistical analysis carried (...)
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