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How French welfare services are creating ‘robo-debt’
A French welfare office using software to automatically evaluate cases incorrectly notified a woman receiving benefits that she owed €542.
- Date it happened
- 2021-03-17
- Organisation involved
- French Welfare Offices
- Product, system or model
- The welfare determination algorithms "use “automated controls” as well as “a statistical model known as ‘datamining’ (sic), which automatically targets risky cases”" to review and flag welfare recipie
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