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Dutch Families Wrongfully Accused of Tax Fraud Due to Discriminatory Algorithm
A childcare benefits system in the Netherlands falsely accused thousands of families of fraud, in part due to an algorithm that treated having a second nationality as a risk factor.
- Date it happened
- 2018-09-01
- Organisation involved
- Dutch Tax Authority
- Product, system or model
- Self-learning algorithm deployed by the tax administration to create risk profiles of welfare recipients in an effort to spot childcare benefits fraud.
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