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...
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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...
Spain: Legal fight over an algorithm’s code | AlgorithmWatch
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril Half a million Spaniards have been denied an electricity subsidy although they might be eligible. Non-profit Civio...
Defective computing: How algorithms use speech analysis to profile job candidates | AlgorithmWatch
By Veronika Thiel Some companies and scientists present Affective Computing, the algorithmic analysis of personality traits also known as “artificial...
Ethical guidelines issued by engineers’ organization fail to gain traction | AlgorithmWatch
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril Additional research: Veronika Thiel The world’s largest professional association of engineers released its ethical guidelines for automated...
Facebook enables automated scams, but fails to automate the fight against them | AlgorithmWatch
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril • nkb@algorithmwatch.org • GPG Key Scammers massively use Facebook’s advertising platform using so-called “cloakers” to evade automated...