Human Rights Group Sues France

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Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They're Under Fire for Bias

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A coalition of human rights groups have launched legal action against the French government over its use of algorithms to detect miscalculated welfare payments.

The French welfare agency analyzes the personal data of more than 30 million people.

The algorithm, used since the 2010s , gives each person a score between 0 and 1 , based on how likely it estimates they are to be receiving payments they are not entitled to.

“Many of these welfare systems that do this fraud detection may, in my opinion, be social scoring in practice,” says Matthias Spielkamp , cofounder of the nonprofit Algorithm Watch . Yet public sector representatives are likely to disagree with that definition—with arguments about how to define these systems likely to end up in court. “I think this is a very hard question,” says Spielkamp ..

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