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ehind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented.
Sweden is regularly hailed as a model welfare state. It tops global transparency indexes and retains high levels of public trust. Behind this reputation for openness, the country’s Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) has silently conducted large-scale experiments with algorithms that score hundreds of thousands of people on benefits, supposedly predicting whether they will commit fraud.
Lees verder: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/swedens-suspicion-machine/
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