Pre-crime at the tax office: How Poland automated the fight against VAT fraud | AlgorithmWatch
By Konrad Szczygieł This story is part of AlgorithmWatch’s upcoming report Automating Society 2020, to be published later this year....
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Under the Twitter streetlight: How data scarcity distorts research | AlgorithmWatch
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril • kayser-bril@algorithmwatch.org • GPG Key As part of our #LeftOnRead campaign, several researchers testified to the reluctance...
Algorithmic grading is not an answer to the challenges of the pandemic | AlgorithmWatch
By Graeme Tiffany Graeme Tiffany is a philosopher of education. He argues that replacing exams with algorithmic grading, as was...
Spain’s largest bus terminal deployed live face recognition four years ago, but few noticed | AlgorithmWatch
By Naiara Bellio López-Molina Madrid South Station’s face recognition system automatically matches every visitor’s face against a database of suspects,...
In a quest to optimize welfare management, Denmark built a surveillance behemoth | AlgorithmWatch
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril • kayser-bril@algorithmwatch.org • GPG Key Udbetaling Danmark was created in 2012 to streamline the payment of welfare...
Broken Horizon: In Greece, research in automation fails to find applications | AlgorithmWatch
By Nikolas Leontopoulos This story is part of AlgorithmWatch’s upcoming report Automating Society 2020, to be published later this year....
World’s Most Beautiful Rainforests
What makes a rain forest beautiful? Is it the dense trees? Or maybe it’s the wild animals? For us, a...
High-Risk Citizens | AlgorithmWatch
By Ilja Braun A software is used for detecting potential benefit cheats in the Netherlands. The government keeps quiet about...
Finnish Credit Score Ruling raises Questions about Discrimination and how to avoid it | AlgorithmWatch
In April 2018, the National Non-Discrimination and Equality Tribunal of Finland ruled that Svea Ekonomi AB must stop using a...
Sweden: Rogue algorithm stops welfare payments for up to 70,000 unemployed | AlgorithmWatch
By Tom Wills Automated decision-making has become a national talking point in Sweden, after a report by the country’s public...
Poland: Government to scrap controversial unemployment scoring system | AlgorithmWatch
By Jedrzej Niklas The Polish government has been forced to scrap a controversial scoring system for the unemployed after criticism by...
Bad data and health: Garbage in, carnage out | AlgorithmWatch
by Nicolas Kayser-Bril French investigative outlet Mediacités recently revealed how design failures in the user interface of software used in...