WF-85WUYM
Opaque Fraud Detection Algorithm by the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions Allegedly Discriminated against People with Disabilities
People with disabilities were allegedly disproportionately targeted by a benefit fraud detection algorithm which the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions was urged to disclose.
- Date it happened
- 2019-10-15
- Organisation involved
- UK Department of Work and Pensions
- Product, system or model
- DWP official Schofield described the algorithm as "data matching that is identifying questions to be answered and then we put those questions to the claimants themselves and give them the right to say
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