By Nikolas Leontopoulos This story is part of AlgorithmWatch’s upcoming report Automating Society 2020, to be published later this year. Subscribe to our newsletter to be...
By Ilja Braun A software is used for detecting potential benefit cheats in the Netherlands. The government keeps quiet about how that works. Civil rights activists...
In April 2018, the National Non-Discrimination and Equality Tribunal of Finland ruled that Svea Ekonomi AB must stop using a specific statistical method in credit scoring...
By Tom Wills Automated decision-making has become a national talking point in Sweden, after a report by the country’s public broadcaster revealed thousands of unemployed people...
By Jedrzej Niklas The Polish government has been forced to scrap a controversial scoring system for the unemployed after criticism by campaigners, judges and a human rights...
by Nicolas Kayser-Bril French investigative outlet Mediacités recently revealed how design failures in the user interface of software used in the country’s second-largest hospital endangered patients’...