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Nicolas Kayser-Bril (algowatching@social.nkb.fr)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:27:22 JST Nicolas Kayser-Bril
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🇫🇷 The French welfare agency uses an algorithm to detect potential fraudsters. Every month, it ranks the households of 32 million people, including 13 million children, with a "risk score".
For the first time, @LaQuadrature obtained its source code and could run it.
The criteria that increase the risk score are
- being poor,
- living in a poor neighborhood,
- being a single mother,
- being unemployed,
- having a disability.
https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/11/27/notation-des-allocataires-lindecence-des-pratiques-de-la-caf-desormais-indeniable/

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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:29:44 JST SuperDicq
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  @algowatching@social.nkb.fr @LaQuadrature@mamot.fr This is exactly the kind of the shit that led to the Dutch childcare benefits scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal
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    Dutch childcare benefits scandal
    
    The Dutch childcare benefits scandal (Dutch: kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire, lit. '[childcare] benefits affair') is a political scandal in the Netherlands concerning false allegations of fraud made by the Tax and Customs Administration while attempting to regulate the distribution of childcare benefits. Between 2005 and 2019, authorities wrongly accused an estimated 26,000 parents of making fraudulent benefit claims, requiring them to pay back the allowances they had received in their entirety. In many cases, this sum amounted to tens of thousands of euros, driving families into severe financial hardship.The scandal was brought to public attention in September 2018. Investigators have subsequently described the working procedure of the Tax and Customs Administration as "discriminatory" against parents with foreign backgrounds, and filled with "institutional bias". On 15 January 2021, two months...
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:43:15 JST Aral Balkan
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  @algowatching @LaQuadrature Assholes. *smh*
  
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