ACLU Sues to End ICE’s Rigged Algorithm for Detaining Immigrants
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/ice-algorithm-bias-detention-aclu-lawsuit
In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested over immigration violations should be let go after 48 hours or detained. The software’s algorithm supposedly pored over a variety of risk factors before outputting a decision. A new lawsuit, however, filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Bronx Defenders, alleges that the algorithm doesn’t really make a decision, at least not one that can result in a detainee (...)
