How rigid algorithms will (soon) trouble the government
▻https://www.radboudrecharge.nl/en/article/how-rigid-algorithms-will-soon-trouble-the-government
For many years, the Netherlands was proud of its advanced digitisation, but the scandal resulting from an algorithm-based policy to detect benefits fraud shows that the haphazard use of such algorithms in data processing can have far-reaching consequences. Marlies van Eck, lawyer and researcher of technology and tax law at Radboud University, sounded the alarm several years ago. “For a long time, we did not want to face how interdependent all those systems are and how enormous the (...)
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