How Dutch activists got an invasive fraud detection algorithm banned – AlgorithmWatch
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/syri-netherlands-algorithm
The Dutch government has been using SyRI, a secret algorithm, to detect possible social welfare fraud. Civil rights activists have taken the matter to court and managed to get public organizations to think about less repressive alternatives. In its fight against fraud, the Dutch government has been cross-referencing personal data from citizens in various databases since 2014. This system, called SyRI (for “system risk indication”), wants to find “unlikely citizen profiles” that warrant (...)
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