The Algorithm Addiction

Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban The Netherlands has been among a growing club of nations experimenting with algorithms in pursuit of efficiencies in detecting welfare fraud. It has also been among those countries accused of pushing a “digital dystopia” since losing a landmark human rights case and seeing its government resign in 2021 in response to a scandal over child benefits, where it was shown to have falsely accused thousands of parents of fraud.When a ‘mass profiling’ system named SyRI for “system risk indication” was found in 2020 to be in breach of EU human rights legislation after a coalition of civil society organisations the ruling was greeted as a breakthrough for digital rights.The SyRI decision came as the outlines were emerging of the Dutch childcare benefits scandal, which saw false allegations of fraud against thousands of parents based in part on a machine learning model deployed by the national benefits authorities that illegally

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