WF-NEQ6XV
Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data
In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.
- Date it happened
- 2018-04-11
- Organisation involved
- Salta city government
- Product, system or model
- The Technology Platform for Social Intervention was developed with the goal of predicted teenage pregnancy, identifying which girls at which address were most at risk of having an adolescent pregnancy
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