The latest episode in the twisted series titled ‘The Dutch government is wildly discriminatory, using citizen’s data to seek out social welfare fraud’ has just come out.
Continue reading “Dutch government’s toxic relation with using data to detect social welfare fraud”Dutch government has to pay back 61 million euros to students who were discriminated against through DUO’s fraud profiling operation
We’ve written twice before about the racist impact of DUO’s student fraud detection efforts. The Dutch government has now decided to pay back all the fines and the study financing they held back for all students that were checked between 2012 and 2023.
Continue reading “Dutch government has to pay back 61 million euros to students who were discriminated against through DUO’s fraud profiling operation”Easily developed facial recognition glasses outline how underprepared we are for privacy violations
Two engineering students, Caine Ardayfio and AnnPhu Nguyen, at Harvard University developed real-time facial recognition glasses. They went testing it out on passengers in the Boston subway, and easily identified a former journalist and some of his articles. A great way to produce small-talk conversations of break the ice – you might think.
Continue reading “Easily developed facial recognition glasses outline how underprepared we are for privacy violations”Racist Technology in Action: Anti-money laundering efforts by Dutch banks disproportionately affect people with a non-Western migration background
Banks have a requirement to ‘know their customers’ and to look for money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Their vigilante efforts lead to racist outcomes.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: Anti-money laundering efforts by Dutch banks disproportionately affect people with a non-Western migration background”Events, exhibits and other things to do
Starting November 12th, 2024.
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